Archive for the 'South East Asian' Category
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 […]
Read More..>>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 still very […]
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 change […]
Read More..>>Stir Fried Snow Peas
Usually I call these “sugar snap peas” but this was a Chinese style dish and they’re generally called “snow peas” in Chinese restaurants 🙂 Kerri was out this evening and I worked late and just wanted something quick when I got home. At one point on the journey I had decided on fish fingers, but […]
Read More..>>Thai Green Curry
We haven’t had this for ages so while shopping on Saturday, we stopped off at our local Thai supermarket and picked up the ingredients we needed to make the paste. Stephen made up the paste yesterday and I cooked the actual curry when I got home tonight. It was good but not as good as […]
Read More..>>Thai stir-fried Beef with Shallots and Basil
Day two of the healthy eating plan led me to “Vegetables” by Sophie Grigson. We’ve had this book for a while but haven’t used it much despite a lot of the recipes sounding good. This recipe jumped out at me, something about spicy dishes seems to make low-fat cooking all that more appetising. This worked […]
Read More..>>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 dish. […]
Read More..>>Beef Stir-Fry
We went through a phase of eating stir-fry at least once a week, lately we’ve not been as concerned as we should have been with healthy eating which would explain why there’s been more variety in our cooking and therefore less stir-fries. We decided tonight to re-visit the stir-fry, partly from a health conscious point […]
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; this one […]
Read More..>>Vegetable Stir-Fry
Stephen cooked this for himself on Thursday night, I was out eating steak which was also supposed to go into this dish but apparently it didn’t smell too good. So vegetables it was, and nuts and noodles by the look of the picture.
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