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:
ยำเห็ดเข็มทองกุ้งสด Yum Hed Khem Thong Goong Sod (Needle Mushroom and Shrimp Dressed with Spicy Sour Salad)
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.. 
I’d better not embarrass myself calling it in a wrong way like in my cooking video. (If you have seen that one)
:’(
Thai Food Recipe: ยำไข่เค็ม Yum Kai Kem (Salted Eggs with Spicy and Sour Salad)
ยำไข่เค็ม Yum Kai Kem (Salted Eggs with Spicy and Sour Salad)
Prepare:
6 salted eggs (cook in boiling water for 7 minutes)
1 handful thin sliced spring onion
1 handful cut Chinese celery
2 tbsp. sliced red chili pepper
2 handful thin sliced lemongrass
2 tbsp. pickled garlic
1 tbsp. juice from pickle garlic
2 tomatoes cut bite size
1 cup sliced cabbage
3 tbsp. fish sauce
1 tbsp. sugar
3 lemons
Cooking Instructions:
1. Cut the boiled salted eggs in half.
2. In a big bowl, add red chili pepper, fish sauce, sugar, squeeze the juice from 3 lemons, juice from pickle garlic, lemongrass, pickled garlic and 1/4 cup water. Keep adding fish sauce, lemon juice and sugar until you get the real taste of spicy and sour salad.
Some people ground fresh garlic and red chili pepper first to get the red color, I didn’t.
3. After you get it at the taste you like, place sliced cabbage on the big plate, then salted eggs come after. You may choose Salted Red Yolk from my previous recipe: Salted Red Egg Yolks >>>
4. Throw together tomatoes, onion and celery. Next, pour sauce from step 2 and serve with boiled plain rice.
Last week, my colleague got went back home in Chaiya, Surat Thani where it is famous for salted eggs. Her family owns a business selling salted eggs in the area by Suam Mohk, meditation center. When she came back to work, we all got 1 small box of salted duck eggs with OTOP logo. (This OTOP logo means “One Tumbon One Product”- good quality).
I promised to her and the girl working at the shop next door that I will cook ยำไข่เค็ม (Yum Kai Kem) for them if we share all ingredients cost. They gave me 10 Baht each so I got 30 Baht total. That’s enough for this recipe as we already had 6 salted eggs from my friends. I finished it with big praise for myself by myself! haha :P
I was so sad that day I didn’t have the camera with me and I don’t know when will be the next time until I cook again.
