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!

Sawasdee ka, joy

Pad Priao Wan (Sour and Sweet Stir Fry)

ผัดเปรี้ยวหวาน Pad Priao Wan

(Sour and Sweet Stir Fry)

ผัดเปรี้ยวหวาน
Pad Priao Wan
(Sour and Sweet Stir-Fry)

Prepare:

5 tomatoes (cut 4 times each one)
10 big shrimps (peeled, de-veined, cleaned and cooked)
1/4 cup cut onion
1/4 cup cut sweet peppers (yellow, green and red)
1/4 cup sliced pineapple
10-12 partridge eggs (boiled and peeled)
1 tbsp. minced garlic
2 tbsp. oyster sauce
3 tbsp. ketchup (or as much as you like)
1 tbsp. fish sauce
1/2 tsp. sugar
1 tsp. Thai pepper powder
1 tbsp. olive oil

Cooking Instructions:

1. Heat the pan and add olive oil.

2. When the pan is hot, add minced garlic and fry until it has aromatic smell.

3. Put sweet peppers, tomatoes, onion and then stir for 2 minutes.

4. After that, add shrimps, pineapple, oyster sauce, fish sauce, sugar, ketchup and thai pepper powder.

5. Add water if the sauce gets too thick.

6. The taste should be sweet, sour and a salty.

7. If you like the partridge eggs, add it in the pan and mix well before you turn off the fire.

8. Serve with jasmine rice.

Pad Priao Wan (Sour and Sweet Stir-Fry) is another colorful Thai food recipe for the children and everyone that loves sweet and sour food. It is also good for any of you who is on diet program. Just skip the shrimps and add less oil in the food. Broccoli and carrot can be added if you love more vegetables. I love to put a lot of fresh tomatoes in my Pad Priao Wan because it helps provide me a nice, fresh, radiant and smooth skin!!

In Thai restaurants you may find this food but they would cook it with crispy fried fish.

Joy^^

Thai Food Recipe: Stir Fried Shrimp with Leguminosae (Goong Phad Cha Om)

กุ้งผัดชะอม Goong Phad Cha-Om (Stir fry shrimps with Leguminosae)

Prepare:

1 cup Leguminosae

1 cup big shrimps (peeled, de-veined and soft boiled)
2 tbsp. minced garlic
2 tbsp. minced chili peppers
2 tbsp. oyster sauce
1 tsp. sugar
1 tsp. fermented soybean (you may add more if you like, just careful some bands are so salty)
1 tbsp. vegetable oil

Cooking Instructions:

1. Heat the pan, add vegetable oil and wait until it’s hot.

2. Add minced garlic and chili peppers. Stir fry until it has aromatic smell or until you sneeze.

3. Add Leguminosae, oyster sauce, fermented soybean, sugar and quick stir.

4. Next, add shrimps. Mix well and then turn off the fire.

5. Serve with jasmine rice.

I love Leguminosae. I don’t know if this is the correct word for this type of vegetable or not. So, I put a link to my previous post where I have its picture.

I had an omelet with it and found a new recipe on internet so I want to share with everyone.

ยำเห็ดเข็มทองกุ้งสด Yum Hed Khem Thong Goong Sod (Needle Mushroom and Shrimp Dressed with Spicy Sour Salad)

Prepare:

500g. Cooked Needle Mushroom
2 tbsp. minced chili peppers
2 tbsp. lemon juice
2 tbsp. fish sauce
1 tsp. sugar
1 tbsp. sliced pickled garlic
1 handful cut Chinese celery
1/4 cup sliced spring onion (thin and circle shape)
1/4 cup sliced tomatoes
500g. shrimps
3 tbsp. drinking water

Cooking Instructions:

1. Clean, peal and de-veined the shrimps and soft boiled in boiling water.

2. In a bowl, add sugar, fish sauce, chili peppers, lemon juice, pickled garlic, water and mix well. Taste it the way you like. You may add more sugar if you like it sweet. However, it’s better to have sour and spicy flavor to lead.

3. When you get the taste you like, add tomatoes, onion, and celery. Mix well. Add more drinking water if you want it juicy.

Here is the trick, keep adding little by little until you get the right taste. After 3-4 recipes of spicy and sour salad, you can do it with out having to measure the amount.

4. Mix mushroom and shrimps on a plate and dress the salad on top. Or you can just throw them into a salad bowl, mix well and then serve.

I suggest the second way because it will make all the taste to take place in every bite to eat. Anyway, do you know what is it when I call that mushroom “Needle Mushroom”? It looks like needle to me and I translated it from Thai words. Don’t know what it’s called in English..