Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]All of this is why the best way to cook pho on a hot day is outside: firstly charring the bones and onion on a mesh grill, then heating the pot, over a charcoal fire. That gives you time to walk up the road to the Vietnamese place where they make fresh bahn pho, bring them back, cook them in boiling water (you need another hotter fire for this) then assemble your pho. This is how I was taught to do it at cooking classes in Vietnam, and luckily, I have three Vietnamese places within walking distance to get the noodles. if you make the stock several gallons at a time it freezes admirably. But the place that sells the noodles also sells bowls of pho for $7, so we rarely make out own, and someone else gets to suffer from the heat in the kitchen. Marty On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:42 PM, <bruceslomovitz at comcast.net> wrote: > > > Heresy of heresies!? You don't eat pho with glass noodles or vermicelli.? > You eat it with banh pho.? Glass noodles are made from beans.? Banh pho is > a somewhat broad, white (not clear) rice noodle which should be prepared > so it is al dente.? Regarding the name pho, it is a corruption of the F > rench gastronomical term "pot au feu".? The word pho is pronounced very > nearly like feu.? Pot au feu means, of course, pot on the fire. > > > > As far as cooking on hot days, you must make the broth by first charring > soup bones and a whole yellow onion (skin on)?in the oven.? Then you must > boil the bones and onion slowly for hours with star anise,?a couple of > sticks of cinnamon, and some ginger.? Add good fish sauce to taste at the > end and remove the bones, onion, ginger, etc.? Your broth should?not be > cloudy, which it will not be if you boil it slowly. > > > > After all of this, how much heat is it going to generate to boil up enough > broth for a bowl or two of pho???But to each his own I suppose.? The > Vietnamese changed the French cooking methods to which they were exposed.? > So I guess if you wish to corrupt pho by eating it cold, you are entitled > to do so. > > > > Bruce S. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information