I am a huge fan of Pho, a Vietnamese noodle soup. In Northern Virginia we were spoiled by having tons of fantastic Pho bowl restaurants. My favorite, Pho Bowl, was in Landsdowne center off of Beulah St in Alexandria.

Tampa, unfortunately, does not have many Pho restaurants. And none have wonderful owners and delicious Pho like Pho Bowl in VA. So we decided to try making it ourselves. We found numerous recipe’s online but we wanted one that did not require days to create the broth. Finally we found a recipe that one could make in a crock-pot.

I grabbed the list of ingredients and went to our local asian market. That place was packed! But fortunately, there were some nice folks there that helped us find the ingredients we needed so we went home dumped it into the crock-pot and waited.

It wasn’t long before our impatient kids exclaimed, ‘It smells like Pho!’ Soon we were all huddled around the crockpot sniffing the mixture… Mmmm, yes it did smell good!

It tasted good too! I suspect we will be cooking a lot more Pho in the future. Who knows, maybe one day we will be able to have fantastic Pho like we enjoyed at Pho Bowl!

Tags: crock-pot, Pho