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This Thai Basil Coconut Noodles recipe is a warm hug in a bowl—creamy, fragrant, and packed with fresh vegetables and herbs. It’s a plant-forward twist on classic Thai flavors, featuring rice noodles ...

In many parts of the country, fresh spring peas are already in the markets. (The season starts on the West Coast and extends through mid-summer on the East Coast and Midwest.) This is cause for ...

Even among the green vegetable-averse, snap peas aren’t typically a hard sell. They’re sweet and crunchy, delightful raw, briefly blanched or quickly stir-fried. If you can get them fresh and local at ...

Western cooks too often go too light on fresh herbs, treating them more as garnish than flavoring. We prefer the Thai approach, which uses ingredients such as basil, mint and cilantro by the fistful.