FREE Thai Food E-Books! No purchase required…
Sawasdee Ka!
I just finished writing a new page here at the blog… in the upper left hand side you can see it - “FREE Thai Food E-Books!”.
We decided to just give away both of our e-books for free since we’ll be able to have more people see them and enjoy them!
If you don’t know what an e-book is, it’s simply a Word file with photos and nice formatting converted into an Adobe PDF format that you can read on your computer, PDA, phone, or maybe even your watch. It makes the files easy to read on electronic readers too - you may have heard about Microsoft’s and Amazon’s new readers. They are e-book readers designed specially for reading e-books.
If you want to get both e-books here are the links below…
Joy’s Thai Food Recipe E-book, 99 pages, fully illustrated, fully FREE!
Joy’s Top 20 Thai Desserts E-book, 38 pages, fully illustrated, also - fully FREE!
Som Tam (Som Tum): Spicy Papaya Salad
Here is another post we did at one of our other sites (ThaiPulse.com). It’s Vern’s explanation of Som Tam!
If you want to see Joy’s Som Tam recipe in another language click link:
Thai Food Recipe: หมกปลาซิว Mok Pla Siw (Fish and herbs wrapped in banana leaves)
หมกปลาซิว Mok Pla Siw (Fish and herbs wrapped in banana leaves)
Prepare:
2 cup very small fish (As small as you can find)
5 red chili peppers
5 dried red chili peppers
5 cloves garlic
5 red onions
1 handful basil (ใบแมงลัก)
2 tbsp. fish sauce
1/4 tsp. sugar
1 tbsp. minced galingale
1 handful cut scallion (1 inch long)
2 handful cut dill (1 inch long) I like this one so I added a lot
1 tbsp. slice lemongrass
3 kaffir lime leaves
2 tbsp. Pla Rah (fermented fish sauce)
Banana leaves
Cooking Instructions:
1. Ground chili peppers, red onions and garlic all together.
2. Clean the tiny fish very well and put in a big bowl.
3. Add fish sauce, sugar, pla rah, minced galingale, lemongrassm kaffir lime leaves, basil, dill and scallion.
4. Taste it. If you like how it taste then wrap it in banana leaves. If not, add more Pla Rah. At this step, you don’t have to make artistic banana wrap. 
haha Just do anything to keep it whole the food. Maybe use toothpick.
Ah! I forgot you can use foil paper (for food). 
That would make it easier, huh? But banana leaves will give a unique smell though, if you would like to try.
5. With banana leaves, you can grill on fire. With foil paper, cook in microwave for 5-10 minutes.
6. Other option, add everything in a clay pot. It will also have a distinctive smell.
7. Serve with sticky rice.
It is Isaan Style food and a farmer recipe from my mom. When you worked hard on the farm, in the heat, this recipe will increase your appetites.
Have you ever been offered to eat the whole fish by Thai People? Whole fish.. I mean its meat, its bones and its head. 
That’s how we eat it. The whole thing, especially a tiny fish would be easy to chew and swallow. I ate like that as well! because I am Isaan! Hahaha
Thai Food Recipe: Bamboo Salad!
Bamboo Salad ซุปหน่อไม้
Bamboo Salad
ซุปหน่อไม้
Soup No Mai
Prepare:
2 cups boiled and scraped Bamboo
1 cup Bai Ya Nang (Look at my post here to see what kind of green leaves I use)
http://trythaifood.thaipulse.com/2007/01/thai-isaan-food-recipe-ho-mok-gai-sai.html
1 tbsp. fish sauce
1 tsp. salt
2 tbsp. Pla rah (fermented fish sauce)
1 tbsp. roasted sesame (then ground it finely, blow out the burnt dust)
2 tbsp. Khao Bue-ah (soaked uncooked rice)
1 tsp. dried chili pepper powder
2 tbsp. mints
2 tbsp. Sliced red onion
1 tbsp. chili peppers (ground)
2 tbsp. Sliced coriander
2 tbsp. Sliced scallion
1 tbsp. Sliced parsley
Cooking Instructions:
1. Boil the bamboo and scraped it with fork. Cut it short about 10cm.
2. Finely ground Khao Bue-ah with Bai Ya nang. Add 1 cup of water and squeeze until you get green juice.
3. Wash scraped bamboo again with clean water and place into the pot.
4. Add green juice, salt, pla rah juice and chili pepper. Boil it with medium heat until it’s boiling.
5. After that, turn off the fire and wait until it’s cool off.
6. Next, add coriander, scallion, parsley, sliced red onion and dried chili peppers. Mix well.
The juice in this recipe should be a little thick and should not be too much.
Top with roasted sesame and mints. Serve with sticky rice and eat under the big tree by the rice fields.
Hehe can you imagine that picture?? That’s what we do… ;P
