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A basic dipping sauce to serve with rice, rolls, noodles and other Thai dishes.

This is not the fish sauce so popular in South East Asia which is made of salted anchovies, fermented, but an easy sauce to make at home.

No need to give up your Indonesian feast just because one of your guests is a very strict vegetarian. Use this vegetarian version of fish sauce and go on with the menu.

Turkey giblet stock is the best base for a traditional turkey gravy.

Mince pies are made with crumbly pastry filled with mincemeat. If you don't have a favorite recipe, you can well use this one.

Plain pastry consists of fat, flour, water, and salt. Butter yields the richest flavor, but shortening will produce the flakiest crust, a mixture of the two will make a good balance. It is almost as easy to make pastry by hand, than it is with a food processor. The most important things to bear in mind with both methods are keeping the ingredients cold, and not overworking the dough.

Use it always for bottom crust only sweet pies and tarts, especially those to serve chilled.

Have jalapenos always available.

A different sort of appetizer.