Recipe Rundown: Carla Lalli Music's "Wild Rice with Pomelo, Coconut, and Cashews"
"Pomelo. Hmmm..." I would say that about sums up my feelings on this somewhat elusive ingredient that plays a starring role in this recipe. This week's recipe, "Wild Rice with Pomelo, Coconut, and Cashews," is again from Carla Lalli Music's cookbook That Sounds So Good (I got this for Christmas last year and have barely made a dent in it; forgive me). A recipe based off of the Thai dish yum som-o , it's located under "Chapter 4: Big Salads." Unlike Carla's version, y um som-o usually features fish sauce, peanuts, and dried shrimp, among other things not found in this recipe. I'm not opposed to the idea of repurposing international dishes to suit a different audience--however, I'm generally not a fan of taking an already existing, extremely delicious dish and making it objectively worse. By removing the fish sauce, dried shrimp, and soy sauce, Carla has made this dish much more mild in flavor. Additionally, Carla replaces some of...
