Sara Sarver

I had such great things planned for this week’s edition of Tasty Tuesday, but alas it now must wait.  I fully intended on giving you a step-by-step photo tutorial on how to make healthy homemade flour tortillas.  In fact, tonight, I taught the ladies at my school how to make these tortillas and restaurant-style salsa.  [...]

Mmmmm…. dragon fruit.  Perhaps one of my favorites of all tropical fruits, dragon fruit not only tastes great but it sure looks good, too.  Check it out. Although it’s bright magenta skin with green pointy scales may look frightening, the inside of this particular fruit is rather friendly.  There are 2 different types of pink [...]

This week’s feature – fresh, tropical mango.  But not just any mango, nor any kind you’ve probably ever had.  Nope.  These ones are green! As many of you may already be aware, tropical fruit in about every form always tastes better when you eat it fresh.  Well, isn’t what I buy in the store fresh… [...]

Today’s featured Thai food is a dessert of custard and pumpkin. The first time we lived in Thailand (back in 2005), I had seen this particular dish in the market many times, but as no one had ever invited me to taste it, I never did.  This time around, while at a new Thai friend’s [...]

If you haven’t figured it out already by my lack of blogging in the last week and a half, we’ve been doing a bit of travelling and internet has not been readily available to us. Though, rest assured, between our trip and the events of Christmas here in Thailand recently, you’ll have plenty to chew [...]

For this week’s Tasty Tuesday segment, I’d like to introduce you to one of two open-air fresh markets here in the city of Lopburi.  This is the larger of the two, and it is located in the ancient sector of the city.  This is the Thessabaan Market. Some of you may have been to seasonal [...]

As with last week’s post, this one will also showcase a little piece of how we were able to celebrate American Thanksgiving here in Thailand. I say American Thanksgiving, because contrary what many of you may think, the last Thursday in November is not celebrated as a holiday throughout the rest of the world. Sure, [...]

Yesterday we had to privilege of joining with a small group of fellow Americans in celebrating Thanksgiving here in Thailand.  Over the past 4 months, we have gotten to know a wonderful couple who have been serving in this country for near 30 years, and this year they invited us to join them.  There were [...]

Tham eng – to do something your self. That’s exactly what I learned to do on Monday night this week – something myself. Do what yourself, you ask? Most of you know already how much I enjoy cooking and baking, pretty much anything having to do with the kitchen and sharing what comes out of [...]

After several evenings eating in for supper, we decided to venture back out to our favorite night market in the part of town known as Sra Kaew.  This is the same place each of the other Tasty Tuesdays in the market took place as well!  There are 2 parts to the Sra Kaew market – [...]