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Prepare:

1 cup  sliced pork
1 cup  cut onion
1 cup  cut pineapple
1 cup  sliced sweet pepper (any color)
1 cup  cut tomato
2 cup sliced cucumber

1 tbsp. vegetable oil
1 tbsp. minced garlic
1 tbsp. fish sauce
1 tbsp. soy sauce
1 tbsp. oyster sauce
2 tbsp. tomato sauce (ketchup)
1 tsp. sugar

Cooking instructions:

1. In a hot pan, add vegetable oil and minced garlic. Fry it until it has aromatic smell. After that add pork. Cook pork for 2 minutes use maximum heat. If you don’t like pork you can use chicken, fish, shrimps as substitution or even skip the meat if you are vegetarian.

[For the fish, you should deep fried it first and add the fish last. Same with the shrimps, soft boiled them first.]

2. After the pork is done, add the vegetable that takes time to cook first, cucumber and pineapple. Then, add fish sauce, spy sauce, oyster sauce, tomato sauce, sugar. Mix well.

3. Next, add sweet pepper, onion, tomatoes. Turn of the fire and serve it with hot jasmine rice.

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Grilled Chicken with Lemongrass in Thai, Gai Yang Dtakrai

Grilled Chicken with Lemongrass

Gai Yang Dtakrai

ไก่ย่างตะไคร้

Prepare:

4 thigh chicken
7 lemongrasses (cut 1 inch)
3 tbsp. sugar
1/4 cup light soy sauce
1/4 cup soy sauce
3 tbsp. black pepper
1/3 cup garlic

Cooking Instructions:

1. Crush the lemongrass finely.

2. Then, with black pepper and garlic, we just need to crush it lightly.

3. Now, add soy sauce, light soy sauce, sugar and mix everything very well.

4. With your hand, take a chicken piece and give it a massage in a bowl of mixed ingredients above. Do the same thing with the rest.

5. Leave it in the refrigerator for 3 hours or one night if you are not in a hurry.

6. Grill it on a fire made from wood or use the oven with 180 C for 45 minutes.

Note from Vern: The flavor of lemongrass with the chicken is an amazing combination. You’ll like this recipe regardless if you like other Thai foods because it’s just like a flavored chicken recipe. Try it!

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ไก่ม้วน Gai Muan (Chicken Rolls)

Prepare:

1 cup chicken breast
2 group scallion (cut 1 inch long)
3 tbsp. light soy sauce
1 tbsp. ginger hot drink
2 tsp. sugar
2 tbsp. vegetable oil
1/2 cup water

Cooking Instructions:

1. Slice the chicken and use rolling pin to make the chicken thin.

2. Place scallion and roll the chicken. Fasten it with thin stick.

3. Soak it in light soy sauce, sugar and ginger hot drink. Save the sauce for the next step.

4. Heat the pan and add vegetable oil. Fry the chicken rolls until it turn gold. Add the sauce from step3 and 1/2 cup water.

5. Boil for 10 minutes. Remove from the pan and cut into the right bite pieces.

Here is it another children recipe for you today. This one takes only 5 easy steps to make. I love to serve it with sweet plum sauce. My younger cousins loved to help me in the kitchen but not something dangerous, like knife and hot pan. When they get participated with their food, they always ate them all and ask for more.

I think it’s really fun to be with the young children. They are so funny and always excited to learn new things. I just had to show them something like “wow filling up water bottle was so much fun”. Then, I cut off one of the shores I had to do and the children were having fun. A year or two later, they found out that I didn’t want to do filling up the bottles with drinking water so I tricked them… haha

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Thai Food Noodle Recipe: Pad Si Iw
(Thick Noodle Stir-Fried with Shrimp and Squid)

Pad Si Iw (Thick Noodle Stir-Fried with Shrimp and Squid)

Prepare:

2 cups thick noodle
1 cup cooked squid and shrimp (peeled, de-veined)
1 egg
2 tbsp. minecd garlic
1 tbsp. sweet black soybean sauce
1 tbsp. soy sauce

1 tbsp. oyster sauce (Depend on which brand you use, some are too salty)
1 tbsp. fish sauce
1 tsp. sugar
1 tbsp. olive oil
1 handful Chinese kale
1/2 cup sliced carrot
1/2 cup sliced tomato
1 handful fresh bean sprouts
1 piece lemon

Cooking Instructions:

1. Heat the pan and fry garlic with olive oil until it smells aromatic.  In a cup, make the sauce ready by putting black soybean sauce, soybean sauce, sugar, oyster sauce together.

2. Add the egg. Beat it and let it cook for 2 minutes.

3. Now, add squid, shrimp or chicken as you like and then mixed sauce.

4. Add noodle and black soybean sauce then mix well.

5. Put chinese kale, carrot, tomato and cook for 3 minutes. Now turn off the fire. Serve Pad Si Iw with lemon and fresh bean sprouts on a side.

Pad Si Iw is my very first cooking recipes I can do beside fried egg, omelet, fried rice and MAMA instant noodle. My cousin taught me how to cook this one. You can find this food at any restaurant that cook to order. They must have this as a tradition.

I cooked this food on that day because I was angry. After the baby fall asleep the day before I cook Pad Si Iw, I went out to buy food. Secretly, I stop at Tesco for my own enjoyment ( a quick enjoyment I would say). Also, I want to look for bread for my lovely husband….

There was no bread!!!.. I should expect that to happen. At the store, they always don’t have what you want, especially when you really want it.

So, I drove back home in a hurry. At the same time, I was thinking about what else we can get for lunch. I passed one restaurant on the way back home and think to myself ” if someone dare to open a restaurant, they must know how to cook Pad Si Iw with a good taste”. Undoubtedly, the Pad Si Iw they cook must be good because it is very basic and easy. Any restaurant that cook food to order must cook this dish quite well. Well enough that they feel confident to sell it.

I turn around to that restaurant and got one to take home for Vern. Again thinking, if this Pad Si Iw is bad, I will tell restaurant people to go commit suicide….. hahaha like a Samurai… (fail on the job and punish himself, seppuku or as you know for Hara-kiri.) I will suggest them to do Hara-Kiri.

and it turn out that Pad Si Iw he cooked was very bad!!!!!!!!! but I am not going to tell him to do that. I was so angry that I waste money bought food from him when I know I can cook better….. kick kick slap slap to myself and went shopping for Pad Si Iw ingredients the next day.

Click here for a cooking video of Pad Si Iw. It was very good food. haha I am not being boastful.

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