"sticky rice" news and stories

While rice is an easy-to-prepare grain, removing its residue from pots and pans is no small feat. With these tips, it's a breeze.

I noticed that Trader Joe's recently started stocking the type of noodles used for making pad Thai, and even though I now have a bunch stocked away in my kitchen, I can't get motivated to make anything with them. Thai cooking is time intensive and, while worth it in the end, you can't always dedicate a lot of time to cooking during the week. Quick & Easy Thai: 70 Everyday Recipes delivers recipes that you can make even when you are relatively short on time that still have all the great thai flavors you are hoping for. The recipes are easy to understand, so it is also a good starting point for someone who wants to get a feel for the basics of Thai food and flavors. One of the best features of the book is that the author provides lots of substitutions, so you will be able to work with most of the recipes even if you don't have access to a well-stocked Asian market, though some staples (like fish sauce and sriracha) will definitely have to be added to the pantry. Recipes include Chicken Satay with Peanut Sauce, Green Curry Chicken with Zucchini, Spicy Cashew Salad with Chilies, Cilantro and Lime and Sticky Rice with Mangos.

For a less "quick and easy" look at Thai cuisine, try author Nancie McDermott's Real Thai: The Best of Thailand's Regional Cooking, which offers a few more techniques, more curries and some more exotic/less common recipes.

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What do you get when you combine 2,000 coconuts, 1.5 tons of brown sugar and half a ton of ground glutinous rice? The world's largest calamay.

The 2.5-ton sticky rice treat was recently unveiled in Candon City in the Philippines. It's the country's effort to topple the Guinness World Record for the largest sticky rice cake, which is currently held by the city of Niigata, Japan. To give some idea of the scale of this sugary treat consider that in an average day a calamay vendor uses some 55 pounds of glutinous rice. Oh, in case you're wondering, the one pictured above is not the Guinness contender.

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