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Thit Bo Nuong La Lot (Beef in Wild Betel Leaf Recipe) and Miang Kham (Thai One Bite Salad) Monday, July 20, 2015, 09:05 PM

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We made a Thai and Vietnamese dish.

The Vietnamese dish was Thit Bo Nuong La Lot (Beef in Wild Betel Leaf) [see recipe below, we used Option 2] however, despite seeing it before, we couldn't find wild betel leaf. We decided to improvise and use spinach leaves. They worked ok. A lot broke since they are thinner or they just weren't the right size. We also didn't have enough between this and the one bite salad (below). We did follow the recipe pretty closely. The biggest changes were that we used only 0.8 lbs of (extra-lean) beer, we used Penzeys Sweet Curry since we didn't have what she called for, and we just eyeballed the salt and pepper (and used much less pepper). They came out pretty good. Maybe a bit dry and too much curry, but very interested anyway. We also made the beef stuff the night before and let it marinate over night. Not sure what, if any, affect that had.

We also made the traditional Vietnamese dipping sauce. I followed the recipe (below), halved, but used turbinado sugar since we're out of plain sugar. On first taste, it wasn't really sweet enough so I made a bit more simple syrup and added that. I also added garlic and peppers as she suggests.

The Thai dish was Miang Kham (Thai One Bite Salad). As noted, we couldn't find_wild_ betel leaves so we had spinach. However, we really didn't have enough so we also used a spoon (which I think works very well). The other changes was that we use sweetened coconut and subbed 1/2 an onion for shallots (since we ran out).

Reminder to us in the future: this is really not an easy meal. The Miang Kham takes a long time to make the sauce and then a lot of chopping. The beef was easy enough but filling (stuffing?) it took a very long time.

Thit Bo Nuong La Lot (Beef in Wild Betel Leaf Recipe)(from Viet World Kitchen)

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Basic Vietnamese Dipping Sauce Recipe (Nuoc Cham) (from Viet World Kitchen)

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