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The Year in Pho: Recipes, Cooking Tips, and Family Stories from 2017

December 28, 2017 By Andrea Nguyen 2 Comments

| Wouldn’t you know it, there was a lot of pho fervor this year, especially at Viet World Kitchen! Instead of doing a year-end summary of the most popular recipes on the site, I decided to round up all the pho-related content that published during the past twelve months. I published tips, tricks, and recipes…

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Filed Under: Cooking Tips & Tools, Essentials: Pho, Recipes: Gluten-Free, Recipes: Pho Tagged With: banh pho, how to make pho, pho history, pho ingredients, pho instant pot, pho recipes, pho secrets, pho spices, pho stories, pho tips

Make Instant Pot Pho from The Pho Cookbook!

November 2, 2017 By Andrea Nguyen 2 Comments

Excellent old-school pho requires a long simmer in a stockpot. Much of that work is passive cooking but it is a half-day project for a home cook. How can you make good, from-scratch pho fast? Use a pressure cooker. They’re called nồi áp xuất in Vietnamese. I’ve seen them online for purchase in Vietnam but…

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Filed Under: Cooking Tips & Tools, Essentials: Pho, Recipes: Pho Tagged With: how to make instant pot pho, how to make pho, instant pot hacks, instant pot pho, pho, pressure cooker pho, the pho cookbook, Vietnamese pho

How to Host a Pho Party!

June 9, 2017 By Andrea Nguyen 8 Comments

My family regularly had our own pho party on Sunday mornings, but when I was growing up, I didn’t realize it. We’d attend 8 a.m. Mass, eat the little communion wafer, and our tummies would start to rumble. “Join us for doughnuts and coffee in the hall after service,” someone would announce but I knew…

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Filed Under: Cooking Tips & Tools, Essentials: Pho Tagged With: how to make a pho menu, how to make pho, pho celebration, pho fest, pho party, pho recipes. vegetarian pho

Pho Spice Blend Recipe

May 17, 2017 By Andrea Nguyen 6 Comments

  Imbuing pho broth with whole spices is to be expected but when you want to define as well as reinforce the pho imprint, use this spice blend. I formulated it for The Pho Cookbook to give cooks a tool that could help them make something more “pho-ish”, to help it say, “I am pho-like!”…

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Filed Under: Cooking Tips & Tools, Essentials: Pho, Recipes: All, Recipes: Fast and Easy, Recipes: Pho Tagged With: gia vi pho, how to make pho, pho spice, pho spice blend, pho spices

Pho Lessons from My Mom

May 9, 2017 By Andrea Nguyen Leave a Comment

When my mom came to America in 1975, she faced challenges like starting a new career, negotiating a foreign society, and raising five kids with my dad. She also wanted to feed herself and our family good food. On the trip from Vietnam, she packed a small orange notebook of hand-written recipes of foods that…

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Filed Under: Cooking Tips & Tools, Essentials: Pho Tagged With: how to make pho, pho, pho cookbook, pho recipe, pho tips, vietnamese women, women chefs in vietnam

Pho Spice Primer

April 26, 2017 By Andrea Nguyen 2 Comments

Without doubt, spices play a major role in defining pho. They contribute lots of aroma and flavor to create a multi-dimensional broth. They are subtly there to help express that something is pho-ish. Typical pho spices are warm and sweet, but each has its individual personality. If this sounds odd, consider the spices that go…

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Filed Under: Asian Ingredients, Essentials: Pho Tagged With: how to make pho, pho, pho soup seasonings, secrets to pho, spices, vietnamese noodle soup, vietnamese pho spices

Pho Garlic Vinegar Recipe (Dam Toi)

April 8, 2017 By Andrea Nguyen Leave a Comment

  Seven years ago I was in Hanoi on assignment for Saveur magazine. My task was to explore  Hanoi-style pho for a column called “Classics.” I’d done lots of reading and research and knew about ingredients like peanut worms (sa sung), which are used for umami in pho. I arrived in the capital thinking I’d…

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Filed Under: Essentials: Pho, Recipes: All, Recipes: Basic Sauces, Stocks and Garnishes, Recipes: Fast and Easy, Recipes: Gluten-Free, Recipes: Vegan, Recipes: Vegetarian Tagged With: dam toi, garlic vinegar recipe, Hanoi pho, how to make pho, northern vietnamese pho, pho bac, pho condiment, pho ha noi, vietnam pho

Vietnamese Online Cooking Class Preview and VWK Price

January 30, 2014 By Andrea Nguyen Leave a Comment

You may be thinking of watching Super Bowl Sunday but I’m thinking of brewing “souper” bowls of pho. Ha(!), pun intended. It’s the season for restorative, warming soups, as well as the time for Lunar New Year reboots. It’s a period for fresh starts and explorations of new ideas. Given that, launching the new Vietnamese…

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Filed Under: Cooking Tips & Tools, Vietnamese Culture Tagged With: asian cooking classes, craftsy, craftsy cooking class, how to make pho, how to make rice paper rolls, how to pronounce pho, how to use rice paper, online cooking class, quick pho, Vietnamese Online Cooking Class

Pre-Launch Giveaway: Online Vietnamese Classics Class

January 23, 2014 By Andrea Nguyen 12 Comments

Great news! Next Tuesday on January 28, my second online cooking class with Craftsy launches. “Vietnamese Classics: Pho, Noodles & Beyond" is a fun class that covers a number of favorite go-to Vietnamese dishes, things that I make at home, order out at restaurants – foods like goi cuon rice paper rolls, chicken and beef…

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: beef pho, chicken pho, how to make pho, how to make rice paper rolls, pho, pho recipe, quick pho, rice paper rolls, vietnamese cooking class, vietnamese recipes

Instant Pho Spice Cubes: How good are they?

August 13, 2012 By Andrea Nguyen 34 Comments

A while back, I posted about instant pho kits and someone commented on how he loved a quick bowl made from the contents of the little boxes of pho bouillon sold at Vietnamese markets. I’d seen them but never went near them. They are typically stocked at the cash register or shelved in the spice…

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Filed Under: Cooking Tips & Tools, Essentials: Pho Tagged With: how to make pho, Instant pho, pho noodle soup, pho shortcut, quick pho

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