LONG BEFORE Donny Sirisavath taught himself to cook, decades before he left his day job as an engineer at Hewlett-Packard to open his own restaurant, Khao Noodle Shop, in Dallas, this was his comfort food. “When I was younger, I’d just eat pork patties and rice,” he said. His mother cooked it for his family and other Laotian refugees in their community. “She is at the heart and soul of my cooking,” he said. In Mr. Sirisavath’s first Slow Food Fast recipe, pork patties get big flavor from minced lemongrass, onion and cilantro—he...

Source: Wall Street Journal October 08, 2020 09:56 UTC