How To Cook Without A Recipe (w/Samin Nosrat) | Life Kit | NPR

when you're like starving and losing your mind you need to just make a decision and that decision is going to be the thing that anchors this meal so the decision can be how much time you have the decision can be what you're craving in terms of like i really want mexican food right now so you you have to choose an anchor and make your decisions around that anchor okay so let's go vietnamese direction what if we make like a big vietnamese salad out of whatever you have in your fridge and that's going to be your dinner the choice that we have made is based on these flavors so we're going to turn to your vinegar shelf and we're going to pull down the rice wine vinegar and knowing that you know we're going to pull out the carrots the crunchy carrots and we're going to slice them thinly oh maybe you have radish so we'll slice those thinly we'll pour some rice vinegar and some salt and some sugar over there and let that sit in the meantime we'll find out oh do you have any protein that you can use is it tofu is it fish is it um chicken is it meat is it pork oh the rice noodles those just get dunked in a pot of hot water so let's put on a pot of water to come to a boil in the background while we're also washing our lettuces oh we definitely want a big pile of herbs in this crunchy salad that's going to be super vinegary and delicious oh wait here we have cilantro and mint let's pull that out of the like back of the drawer ooh it's kind of like yucky we gotta get all the rotting stuff off that's what happens in my fridge every time get all the rotted ones off oh wait oh yeah oh i want something spicy in there here's some jalapeno oh maybe a little bit of ginger would be good oh wait i forgot what are the things that go in this like thai vietnamese flavors i'm gonna pull up my you know cookbook i'm gonna google this on the internet i'm gonna do a little research while the water's coming to a boil like this is how i do it is i'm just sort of like piecing it all together and then in 15 minutes i've figured it out and oh my god i can't believe i made this thing and it tastes so good and i feel so happy and satisfied [Music] you

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Length: 2min 26sec (146 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 27 2021