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!
Thai Food Recipe: Boiled Rice Recipe 2 (Khao Tom Song Kruang)
ข้าวต้มทรงเครื่อง Khao Tom Song Kruang (Boiled Plain Rice Recipe 2)
Prepare:
1 cup uncooked jasmine rice
(leftover jasmine rice from last night will be fine)
4 cups stock
1/2 cup minced pork, chicken, fish or shrimps as you like
1/2 cup shitake mushroom
1/2 cup seaweed
2 tbsp. soy sauce
1 tbsp. fish sauce
1 tbsp. white pepper powder
3 tbsp. pickled radish
3 tbsp. fry garlic in vegetable oil
1 handful sliced Chinese celery
1/2 cup sliced coriander and scallion
1 tbsp. grounded garlic and coriander root
1 tsp. salt
Cooking Instructions:
1. Heat the pot and add 4 cups stock. Add uncooked jasmine rice and use medium fire. Turn down the fire to low, when it’s boiling.
2. While we are waiting for the rice to be done, mix pork in a bowl with white pepper powder, soy sauce, seaweed, grounded garlic and coriander root.
3. Take a peak at boiling rice. If the water gets to low, add more stock. Keep stirring.
4. Now, make the pork a ball shape and drop them into boiling pot. Add shitake mushroom.
5. Boil it for another 10 minutes. Turn off the fire. Throw Chinese celery into the pot and mix well. The heat that is left will cook it.
6. Serve it in a bowl. Add sliced coriander and scallion, pickled radish, and fried garlic in vegetable oil on top. Don’t forget to sprinkle white pepper powder at last.
This is home recipe, hospital recipe (for sick people). Using uncooked jasmine rice is better than boil the rice that was already cooked from rice cooker. We say juice from uncooked rice and vitamin will stay there. The scent and taste are also different.
See two more recipes about boiled plain rice on my next posts. My next two posts will be a quick and cheat recipe from a restaurant. 
Thai Food Recipe: Spicy Chicken Soup (Gang Pa Gai Baan)
แกงป่าไก่บ้าน Gang Pa Gai Baan (Spicy Chicken Soup with Herbs)
แกงป่าไก่บ้าน
Gang Pa Gai Baan
(Spicy Chicken Soup with Herbs)
Prepare:
500 g. Chicken meat stick with its bone (They call it domestic flows)
1/2 cup cut pumpkin
1/2 cup sliced galingale (long shape)
1/4 cup basil or sweet basil
2 groups young pepper corn
1 tbsp. sliced sweet pepper
1/4 cup Solanum torvum or Turkeyberry (Look on google if you don’t know it)
5 pieces kaffir lime leaves
1/2 cup cut wing bean
1/2 cup cut eggplant
3 tbsp. fish sauce
1 tsp. sugar
Paste:
15 whole guinea-peppers (or any kind you can find)
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tbsp. sliced lemongrass
1 tsp. minced galangal
1 tbsp. roughly cut galingale
3 tbsp. cut red onion
1 tsp. basil flower
1 tsp. shrimp paste
Ground all of paste in gradients together
Cooking Instructions:
1. Add 3 cups of water or stock in the pot and turn on the fire. Use medium heat to boil it. Add paste and then wait until it is boiling.
2. Add chicken. I looked up on my dictionary it’s call this type of chicken domestic flows. The chicken meat is quite rough and more difficult to chew.
If you can’t find this type please don’t worry. Just add whatever you have, beef or pork will be fine.
3. Cook the meat for 10 minutes.
4. Add pumpkin and cook for 10 more minutes.
5. Now, add wing bean, eggplant, fish sauce, sugar, pepper corn, galingale, sweet pepper, and basil.
6. Keep adding fish sauce until it tastes perfect. I can’t tell you the right amount because you may like it more or less salty.
7. Serve with hot jasmine rice or rice noodle.
I sneaked into Aunt Aun Kitchen and restaurant near my workplace again for lunch. This time I have no shame at all asking them what is that, what is this
What is that, what is this until I know what I want to know !!
See how I risked my life?
And I got this recipe! Haha แกงป่าไก่บ้าน. I would love to show you the picture but I don’t have camera with me anymore. Sorry.. photo from my phone is horrible and I don’t want to show it.
Anyway, this is my first time eating this food and I like it. It’s so spicy!
You can smell galingale from the soup. Hmm I still have half of the soup waiting for me to come back and finish it.
Thank you for visiting my blog!
\(^v^)/….. Joy, Enjoy Cooking!
Thai Food Recipe: Southern Style Fish Soup
แกงไตปลา Gang Tai Pla (Southern Style Fish Soup with Fermented Fish’s Stomach)
แกงไตปลา
Gang Tai Pla
(Southern Style Soup with Fermented Fish’s Stomach)
Prepare:
1 cup Fermented Fish’s Stomach
1 cup grilled fish (tuna or saba)
1/2 cup potato slice to a dice size
1 cup bamboo
3 pieces kaffir lime leaves
1 tbsp. Shrimp paste
Prepare Paste:
1 handful dried chili pepper
2 tbsp. sliced cumin
2 tbsp. sliced galingale
1 tbsp. minced lemon grass
2 cloves garlic
1 tbsp. kaffir lime skin
1 tbsp. black pepper
2 red onions
Eggplant, long bean, wing bean (as much as you like)
Cooking Instructions:
1. Ground the paste ingredients altogether. If you don’t want to get strong muscle, blender is your choice. Not that I don’t want to have a strong arm by using a stone mortar and pestle, I’m too lazy. Anything related to exercise, I would say NO.
2. When you have it already blended, remove to a bowl and take 1 big tablespoon for our cooking. Keep the rest in the fridge to cook next time.
3. With that 1 big tablespoon, mix it with shrimp paste. Add little bit of water to make it mix well.
4. Boil Fermented Fish’s Stomach on medium heat, add 1 cup of water. Leave it is boiling for 10 minutes and then put the pot away from the stove.
5. Pour cooked Fermented Fish’s Stomach into the filter, keep the juice and throw away the bad part.
6. Now, boil the juice we have on medium fire again. Add the paste from step 3.
7. Add potato, bamboo, Eggplant cook for 10 minutes then add long bean and wing bean.
8. Next, add grilled fish and quick stir. If the water gets too dry, you can add more but don’t make it too much. Then turn off the fire. Throw kaffir lime leaves on top when you serve the food.
You can have this salty southern style soup with noodle or hot jasmine rice!
It is my favorite southern recipe!
