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Thai Monday - Stir Fried Chilli Beef with Holy Basil…
… aka Nuer-pad-kra-prao.
This recipe is from a little Thai cookbook that I don’t remember buying, but it has a price tag on it from one of the supermarkets in London’s Chinatown. It’s called Thai Traditional Cooking - The Mother’s Recipes, by Maria Kanignan Saunders, aka Kanignan Suwannalai.
First, fry holy basil leaves in some oil [...]
Thai Monday - Green Curry with Chicken
We last had this only two weeks ago but since we’d made double the paste we needed to use it up today so it didn’t go to waste. As it was, we think the paste had lost something from sitting in the fridge as it wasn’t quite as zingy as normal. It was [...]
Read More..>>Thai Monday: Lemongrass Beef and Tom Yum Goong
As it was a Bank Holiday today and we had plenty of time, we decided to cook some Thai dishes. We’ve done the lemongrass beef several times before and it’s one of our favourites. To go with it we decided on Tom Yum Goong.
Both dishes are quick to prepare which makes a refreshing [...]
Ginger Chicken
This was a recipe from the Blue Elephant book that turned out quite well but we both agreed we prefer our Thai food to be spicy. We didn’t have enough ginger or enough time to make the special Blue Elephant sauce (their version of MSG) so that probably affected the overall taste of the [...]
Read More..>>Thai Monday Part 7 - Beef Panang
Being a bank holiday today, we took some time to make something for another instalment in the recently neglected Thai Monday series. We chose Beef Panang this time, which is a Thai curry that includes peanuts as well as both coconut milk and coconut cream.
We started by making the paste as usual; [...]
Thai Monday Part 6 - Spicy Minced Chicken Salad (Larp Gai)…
…and hot and sour soup of clams with chillies and lime (tom yam hoi nahm sai).
It’s been a while since we’ve done our supposedly weekly Thai Monday, so over the weekend we hastily chose a couple of recipes and bought what we needed to.
First up was Hot and Sour Soup of Clams with Chillies and [...]
Thai Mondays Part 5: Stir Fried Pork with Beans and Green Peppercorns
Last week Ginger had lunch at a Thai restaurant and had a dish that she really enjoyed, which was beef with chilli, lemongrass, basil and a few other things. We had a look for recipe that was similar and, by happy coincidence, I had already bookmarked a recipe that contained most of those ingredients [...]
Read More..>>Thai Odyssey Part 4 - Mussel and Ginger Soup and Squid Salad
Given the success of last time’s soup and salad combination, we decided to give it another try. Normally on Sundays we have some sort of roast and Thai Monday happens on… Monday. But as I’m out tomorrow evening, we decided to have Thai Sunday instead.
This time, the salad was squid salad, aka yam [...]
Read More..>>Thai Odyssey Part 3 - Jungle Curry of Duck
Jungle Curry. About twelve or thirteen years ago I tasted jungle curry for the first time. At the time I thought it mind-bendingly hot and ate it at about one spoonful per minute, sweating furiously all the time and drinking gallons of water between mouthfuls. However, a week later I found myself [...]
Read More..>>Thai Odyssey Part 2 - Hot and Sour Soup of Shredded Chicken and Lemongrass…
… accompanied by Vermicelli Salad.
Phew, rather a long title for two relatively simple (but delicious) dishes.
I really love this picture that Ginger took of the soup; the coriander leaves floating on the surface look a little like lilly pads on the surface of a pond:
This picture of the salad turned out well, but [...]
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