Chicken with pineapples and fish sauce. I worked from a Vietnamese recipe that tells you to stir-fry the chicken with onions and a chopped-up pineapple, adding garlic and four tablespoons of nước mắm. I threw in thyme from my garden and dried Vietnamese basil, yet in the end, the pineapple flavor drowned out everything else. I would try it again using only a small amount of pineapple as well as more neutral vegetables, like turnips or even radishes.
(Photo: Hotel lobby, San Jose, Costa Rica.)
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