Saturday, October 31, 2009

The Rest of the Thai Recipes!

Ok, so here are the rest of the Thai recipes. Remember if you make any of these please, please post back to me and let me know what you did. I want a final complete recipe. Also if I make them I will also post back as a comment on this post what I did. :)

Pork and Tomato Soup
        Recipe comments: This recipe makes  a lot so you will want to freeze some most likely. It also takes a lot of time.

  •       Sauce:
    • Bean Paste: Fermented (Korean)
    • Garlic
    • Ground Pork
    • Tomato - Fresh, Chopped
    • Onion - One, Chopped
      •  First fry garlic (on high?) then add bean paste, onion and pork. Fry until meat is done and oil is not ___( don't know what word I wrote down) or its the word reduce and not not__. 
      • Add and steam tomato
  •   Noodle - Shun Chinese, quickyo  ??
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_noodles 
    • Checkthat link and look at the first one listed under rice noodles, I think that might be it just guessing from the pronunciation from what I wrote down, and what I remember it looking like.  The Western equivalent is Fettuccine.
    • Soak in water, strain, then add to boiling soup
  • Raw cabbage (chopped really small)
  • Green onion chopped
  • Cilantro
    • Add all three of these fresh ingredients on the top of noodles and soup in each bowl so that they are fresh

Chicken Curry
  • Coconut milk
  • Chili paste
  • Curry Powder
  • Chicken
  • Potato
  • Onion
  • lemon grass
    • Steps:
      • Use a little oil to stir chili paste 
      • Add curry powder
      • Cook chicken
      • Add Coconut milk till it stops boiling
      • Add potato and steam cook until potato is done
      • Add onion
Ground Pork



  • Garlic
  • Tomato (little about 1/2 tomato)
  • Kimchi  - 1/3 cup for 1 cup meat
  • Ground pork
  • green onion
    • Steps: 
      • Heat oil in pan
      • Add garlic to hot oil
      • Add meat and cook 
      • Add add Kimchi and small dices of Tomato
      • Stir fry - use a little more oil, don't make it too dry
      • Sprinkle green onion on top
Adobo - Ribs
  • 3 lbs pork ribs
  • onion
  • ginger
  • garlic
  • green onion
  • honey
  • vineger
  • cooking wine
  • black pepper
  • Cloves - use for ham?
  • Chili pepper
  • vegetable oil
  • sweet soy sauce
  • salt
    • Steps: 
      • Chop Ribs
      • Add everything and stir
      • Cook on high heat stove
      • Steam at low, stirring occasionally,  heat with lid until all water dries out and you hear oil popping
Nameless recipe - Pat Thai??
  • Thin onion grass or bean sprout
  • tofu
  • chicken or pork
  • garlic
  • a little water for dry sprouts

Pumpkin Soup
  • Chicken broth and water
  • chopped pumpkin
  • little black pepper
  • green onion chopped small
Sweet and Sour BBQ Chicken
  • Sweet chili pepper sauce
  • Ketchup
  • Chicken dip sauce - sweet chili sauce
  • Little bit A1
  • Little bit Honey
  • Salt, pepper
  • Chicken Bouillon 
    • Steps:
      • Wash, add little salt and pepper, lil chicken bouillon
      • cut chicken a little, marinade  for a couple hours
      • Baste chicken
      • with a little oil bake on low and put a little sauce on top
Green Bush Beans
  • Bush beans
  • Garlic
  • Soy sauce
  • black pepper
  • bouillon
    • Steps:
      • Oil in pan
      • fry garlic until slightly brown
      • add little water
      • beans
      • put the lid on to steam
      • After cooked add black pepper and a little chicken bouillon
      • little bit of soy sauce
      • little bit salt
Water Crest Green
  • Fry garlic
  • 1 Tbl fermented bean (bottled)
  • Fry
  • Add water chestnuts  - cook quickly
Ribs & Potatoes
  • Ribs
  • Lemon grass
  • Parsley - stem inside not leaves
  • Black pepper
  • Garlic - 1 whole garlic
  • Bouillon
  • soy sauce
  • potato
  • ginger
  • oil
    • Steps:
      • Put everything in pot and cook on stove
      • medium heat with a little oil
      • when water stops coming out put cut potatoes in 
      • put tomato in 
      • put little more water
      • stir fry
      • when water dries taste to see if done cooking

Friday, October 16, 2009

Thai Basics

Here are some basic Thai recipes. And by basic I mean a list of ingredients and maybe some instructions. I will post more when I actually try to cook with them. Try them yourself and give me feedback!

StirFry



  • Garlic
  • Ginger
  • Onion
  • Green Pepper
  • Red Pepper
  • Tomatoes
  • Green Onion
  • Soy sauce
  • Yellow Onion
  • Bouillon 
  • Black Pepper
  • Meat
  • little vegetable oil
Cut and prepare
Heat oil
When hot cook garlic till yellow
Cook ginger a little
cook meat until its done
Add soy sauce, bouillon, vegetables - everything except green onion and pepper
stir fry then black pepper
at the last minute the green onion

Sweet & Sour Chicken

  • Sweet chili pepper sauce 
  • Ketchup
  • Chicken dip sauce - sweet chili sauce
  • Little bit A1
  • Little bit Honey
  • chicken bouillon 
  • salt and pepper
Wash, little bit salt and pepper, little chicken bouillon. Cut chicken a little. MArinade a couple hours. Baste chicken. Use a little oil. Bake low and put a little sauce on top of it. 

Pork & Tofu
  • Garlic
  • Ground Pork
  • Tofu
  • Tomato
  • Soy Sauce
  • Black Pepper
  • Oil 
  • Green Onion
  • little salt or bouillon with meat
First oil, garlic, and pork. Second add tomato. Steam until tomato is cooked and water goes down. Third add tofu, soft and chopped into pieces. Fourth, Soy sauce. Stir for a while then add black pepper and green onion.