Fish sauce

[Lucy]

Anyone ever cook using fish sauce? If so, what dishes do you like to use it in?
I notice that some of the dishes at a local VietNamese restaurant use fish sauce rather than soy sauce. To me, it's not as strong a flavor, but they add lots of other flavors so it's the combination that counts, I guess.

What do you think about the use of this condiment?

Yours, Luce

[ronipow]

I use fish sauce in Thai cooking. It is all gluten free. If you get the Thai Kitchen red curry paste and follow the directions on the label it makes a fantastic curry dish. It has coconut milk, fish sauce and a little brown sugar. I make a dish called Masman Curry. It has onions, meat of choice. potatoes, and coconut milk, fish sauce and a little sugar. It is fantastic and gluten free.

If you are looking for some great flavors for cooking that are gluten free,
check out a local Indian supper market. They sell small boxes of spices
in many different varieties. Each box contains about 15 different spices combined. I use them on chicken, in rice, on pork loin. If you don't like to spicey you can just use a tiny bit and it still adds ton of flavors.

If anyone is looking for a good bet on a gluten free resturants try indian.
their culture does not use wheat products. A friend of mine who is indian
is going to show me how to cook some of the food. When we get around to it I'll pass on the information.

roni

[tex]

Hey, thanks Roni,

That's great information. Looking forward to more Indian cooking tips.

Tex

[Lucy]

Hi Roni,

Haven't seen you around lately, but then, I just sort of skim the top really fast nowadays, most of the time, so I miss posts ALOT. How have you been?

Thanks so much for the cooking idea -- I like to experiment with combinations of flavors like the ones you mentioned, so I will have fun trying to find the proportions that suit our taste buds.

Yours, Luce