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  • Thai Chili from The Dining Car Food Truck

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    On a mild winter day there is nothing like a bowl of Thai Chili from The Dining Car food truck to warm you inside and out. This is my current favorite nosh from one of the best of the street food vendors. And, the bonus item is that this totally brilliant team serves it with shrimp chips. You can dip or do what I do– spoon a pile of chili on a shrimp chip and nibble away. 

    Insider Tip: If you're carrying this back home or to the office, keep it level or ask the team to put your shrimp chips in a separate bag. You don't want any chili to get on those lovely crisp, delicate chips and make them soggy.

    Ed & I usually catch up with The Dining Car outside the Boston Public Library, where we happen to spend a lot of time researching stuff for our freelance work.

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    This is one recipe that I'm going to use as a base for a chili of my own. The menu board says it has ground pork, simmered with red chilies, ginger, lemongrass, and coconut milk. That's a good starting point for me to develop my own Thai Chili.

    Of course, I'll still have to enjoy this one while it's available. But, food trucks do change up the menu frequently, so I'll have to have a backup plan for seasons when they're putting the emphasis on warmer weather fare.

    Related Posts:

    Learn about this food truck and the team behind it at The Dining Car- Food Truck Tracking

    Crispy Cauliflower, a Perfect Snack! (this one is so popular it seems to be staying on the menu)

    Here's a link to our full menu of Food Trucks/Street Food fare. 

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    Details:

    Here's how you can track The Dining Car

    Website: www.diningcar.net

    Twitter: @thediningcar

    Facebook: TheDiningCar

    Words: Penny Cherubino
    Photography: © 2012 Ed & Penny Cherubino

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  • How do you eat Pomelos?

    IMG_4443 - Version 22012-01-01-pomelo-supremes-© 2011 Penny Cherubino

    Once you've done the work of peeling a pomelo and have a beautiful bowl of juicy segments, how do you eat it? What do you add?

    After we posted our recent alert that pomelos were in local markets, Ed went wandering around the web to learn more about this lovely citrus. As I was breaking one into segments to serve as an afternoon snack, he was telling me about cultures where they put salt rather than sugar on pomelo. And, he even mentioned a combination of salt, sugar, and chili. 

    They all sounded like fun to me so I served up our fruit surrounded by a variety of dipping possiblities. 

    Pomelo with aleppo

    You know that this household of Aleppo-pepper-addicts had to try that and, of course, we loved it.

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    Here's a piece with a sugar, salt, and chili mix. 

    So, what do you have on your pomelos? And, do you have any favorite salads or drinks that you make with this giant citrus? 

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    Words: Penny & Ed Cherubino
    Photos: © 2012 Penny Cherubino

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