Just Pho You

It’s soup weather. Hearty stew, spicy curry and simmer and stir weather. It’s the kind of weather that makes your crockpot feel like part of the family again.

And during this snowy-span, Jeremy and I are warming our bellies with new recipes – most recently experimenting with vegetarian pho.

Our first attempt wasn’t so bad, but trying to find star anise in Germany proved troublesome – even in the one Asian grocery store in town.

Even though the “star” ingredient was missing, it was still pretty tasty and I’m hoping the wretched stomach bug that soon followed was purely coincidental. 

I did accidentally drop the “do not eat” silica gel package into the broth, so there’s a small chance I poisoned us, but probably not. It’s more likely that our German-acclimated stomachs weren’t prepared for the Asian nectar that once saturated our lives. And even more likely we just had the flu …