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: Spicy Catfish Stirfry with Galingale
ผัดเผ็ดปลาดุก Phad Phed Pla Dook (Spicy Cat Fish Stir fry with Galingale)
Prepare:
500g. cat fish (cut and clean, mix with 1 tsp. salt and deep fried)
1 handful sliced galingale (in long shape)
5 kaffir lime leaves
1 handful young pepper corn
1/2 cup fried basil (wait until the oil is very hot first, then throw the basil in)
1 cup cut eggplant and soak in salted water (help the surface it not to become dark)
2 tbsp. instant chili paste
1 tbsp. sliced chili pepper
2 tbsp. sugar
3 tbsp. fish sauce
2 tbsp. Vegetable oil
1 tbsp. kaffir lime skin
1 tsp. minced galangal
1 tbsp. lemongrass
1 tbsp. sliced red onion
1 tbsp. minced garlic
Cooking Instructions:
1. Ground kaffir lime skin, galangal, lemongrass, red onion and garlic. After that, mix it with instant chili paste.
2. Next, heat the pan and add vegetable oil. Wait until the oil is hot then add chili paste from step 1.
3. When the chili paste has aromatic smell, add eggplants. If you like it medium cooked, then stir fry for 2 minutes. If you like it completely cook, you should stir fry it for 8 minutes.
4. Now, add some small amount of water, fish sauce and sugar.
5. Add fresh galingale, kaffir lime leave, crunchy cat fish, and chili peppers. Mix well.
6. Turn off the fire. Dress fried basil on top and serve with hot jasmine rice.
Food tips:
When you fry the cat fish, use max heat to heat up the oil first then lower it to medium. Slowly drop the fish into the hot oil and wait until the other is done. When it’s crunchy, you can flip it over. Don’t rush it, just take time and use medium heat.
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!
