Fish Sauce

[T-Man]

LOL , when I open a bottle of three crabs , my wife say it smells like " fanny " . I look foward to ordering a bottle of Red Boat when I am finished with my current supply of fish sauce .

[SmokeOCD]

Planks are for walking on, in the rice fields.

[chicagokp]

Originally Posted by Capozzoli

Definitely will try some of those recipes landarc, looks great.

Got my bottles today. The 35 passed the pinky test with flying colors. Very nice. Striking at first taste compared to the three crab. Has a very agreeable ocean fish smell, very fresh. The three crabs has a sort of "assy" smell, for lack of a better description. Is the 40 stronger?

Gonna be out of town so Ill have a few days to plan my first real fish sauce cook. I have to get some green coconuts and make some caramelized sugar.
Maybe a pork and crab meat meat loaf. Pics to come.

I'm laughing my "assy" off....

[SmokeJumper]

Originally Posted by Capozzoli

The three crabs has a sort of "assy" smell, for lack of a better description. Is the 40 stronger?

Gonna be out of town so Ill have a few days to plan my first real fish sauce cook. I have to get some green coconuts and make some caramelized sugar.
Maybe a pork and crab meat meat loaf. Pics to come.

Originally Posted by T-Man

LOL , when I open a bottle of three crabs , my wife say it smells like " fanny " .

I'll have to bust out a cheese plate when you guys make it to a Bay Area Bash to see how you describe it.

The 40N is a bit deeper in flavor and a nice added complexity but not so different in aroma. The folks who responded to the give-away will be receiving their 40N soon, our containers land in Oakland on July 20th.

Capozzoli, I can't wait to see how that caramelized sugar and fish sauce cook goes - it is one of my favorite ways to feature Red Boat.

Originally Posted by deepsouth

ok, i'm not seeing any peppercorns or salt and it looks like they are out of one of the two types of sauces? glad i got one of each before they were sold out, but i'm interested in the peppercorns as well.

Our black and white peppercorns are coming next week. They are something very special - almost a different spice than what is widely available in the States. The Red Boat facility is a few miles from the pepper farmers' fields on Phu Quoc so we have made great relationships with the farmer's and are able to get hand selected ripest red bunches of fruit before they are dried. The pepper is much more aromatic, fruity, and peppery due to the much higher oil content. I'll be posting for free samples next week and I think brethren will be blown away by what it can do for rubs, sauces, and beyond.

[landarc]

I was blown away, then I reduced the amount of pepper in my rub recipes and things tasted great.

[Capozzoli]

Here is a plate of Mam Chung Thit (I think that is correct?)

In the bowl to the left is Sup Mang tay cua (crab and asparagus soup).



Its a strange but wonderful meat loaf made with pork, crab meat, eggs, black tree ear musrooms, green onions and bean thread. Flavored with fish sauce and carmelized sugar. I made some carmelized sugar as per the link posted by smoke jumper on page two. That method works great!

The Red Boat really ads an authentic flavor that takes it over the top. The 3 crab just went into the trash can.

[landarc]

Ooo, that is very nice, I would be happy with a plate of that. Is that jasmine rice?

[Capozzoli]

Oh my yeah, we get it in the gint 20 lb bags. At the Asian store we go too (H-Mart) if you spend more than $100 the rice is free. Its Jasmine rice and jasmine tea. H-Mart is awesome by the wya, they are a chain. MAybe smoke jumper should look at them. All of the fish sauce on their shelves is the round eye stuff. lots of ingredients.

[landarc]

Free rice? That is un-Asian!

[Capozzoli]

I should say it isnt a free twenty pounds of jasmine rice each time you spend a hundred, but I think it is a couple of tmes a year.

I forgot to post my nouc mam cham sauce recipe.

To Taste:
Water
Rice vinegar (small amount)
Fresh squeezed lime (small amount)
Fish sauce (I use a LOT, especially now that I have Red Boat)
Finely chopped garlic
Chopped small red chili
Carmalized sugar
White sugar

Mix it and experiment, there is no set recipe for this sauce, add different amounts till you get it to your likeing.

Next Im gonna do the roast pork, green coconut water, carmelized sugar, green onions, shallots and fish sauce in a clay pot. Delicious!

[martyleach]

Dang but there is some really nice food posted on this thread. I hope it keeps going for a year or so....

[landarc]

This meat is all about the marinade...

Beef Rib Marinade
1 lime, juiced and half rind julienned
1/4 cup Coconut Secret coconut palm syrup
4 tablespoons Red Boat Fish Sauce
1/8 cup Victorino coconut white balsamic vinegar
2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
1 tablespoon Red Boat black pepper, ground
1/2 pear, diced
4 cloves garlic
5 green onions diced
1 tablespoon ginger, crushed

All of this was prepared and combined in a blender, given a few quick pulses to combine and mash things up a bit. This was then poured over the beef. I was able to get some really good beef chuck ribs, which the butcher cut into thirds for me. These were then butterflied and given some quick work with the tenderizing mallet.

On edit: you could add more fish sauce and more syrup to taste. The only thing with the fish sauce is controlling the salt profile. I think most folks could double it and be happy.

[Groundhog66]

Just wanted to share.....I bought a bottle of the 40 for my in-laws (Filipino), they LOVE it. The feedback I got was, it has amazing flavor without the fishy smell. Bear in mind, they cook with patis every day. Sounds like a winner to me

[martyleach]

Originally Posted by Groundhog66

Just wanted to share.....I bought a bottle of the 40 for my in-laws (Filipino), they LOVE it. The feedback I got was, it has amazing flavor without the fishy smell. Bear in mind, they cook with patis every day. Sounds like a winner to me

So, it didn't have that assey smell?? :)

[Groundhog66]

Originally Posted by martyleach

So, it didn't have that assey smell?? :)

Definitely lacking the assy smell