Adventures in Cooking

[Skelly]

Been longing for a change in my palette fi di longest. Mi luv yard food but it get oh so boring Caan tell di last Sunday mi cook di traditional cuisine...rice n peas an 10 different meat and side followed by dessert and some over sweet drink.

Mi looking fi tings dat easy to prepare, <span style="font-weight: bold">relatively</span> healthy, and from all over the world. My aim is to do one country/region per month. I especially love Asian food (Chinese, India, Thai, Japanese).


Beginning next month mi beginning with Thai food. So far mi have chicken satay wid peanut sauce pan di list. Anything else unoo suggest?

It would be nice if some of unoo can tag along an explore wid me

[twiney]

Re: Adventures in Cooking

saffron coconut rice (thai)

http://thaifood.about.com/od/quickeasythairecipes/Easy_Thai_Recipes.htm

http://www.ezythairecipes.com/

[Skelly]

Adventures in Cooking: Thailand

<span style="font-size: 14pt">Spicy Beef Stir Fry</span>







Beef strips
Snow Peas
Broccoli
Red and Green Bell Peppers
Red Onions
Garlic
Ginger
Green Chiles
Peanut Oil
<span style="font-weight: bold">
and this sauce</span>



Served with brown rice cooked in chicken stock and mixed vegetables.

[Tulip]

Re: Adventures in Cooking: Thailand

I'm willing to go on the journey with you. Thai is my favorite Asian cuisine, but I've avoided trying to cook it myself. My favorite dishes are those like basil chicken and even just their fried rice. There's another dish that is tops on my list with shrimp and medium hot chili peppers with a peanut/coconut milk sauce. but the name escapes me right now.

I'd put pad see ew on my list of Thai dishes to learn how to cook. Even though it is not one of my favorites, it seems to be way popular with my friends.

And if I can be so bold as to suggest next month's, can we do Mediterrean/Southern Italian?

[Skelly]

Re: Adventures in Cooking: Thailand

If it's Thai red curry shrimp yu talking bout I'm making that soon! Was gonna do it for dinner today but I forgot to pick up the blasted fish sauce and some jasmine rice.


Oh well, chicken satay it is!



Mediterranean/ S. Italian for next month sounds fab!!!

[Skelly]

Re: Adventures in Cooking: Thailand

<span style="font-size: 14pt">Chicken Satay</span>





<span style="font-weight: bold">Ingredients
</span>
1/2 cup coconut milk
1 clove garlic, minced
1 teaspoon red curry paste
1 1/2 teaspoons brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
3/4 pound chicken breast tenderloins
1 cup coconut milk
1 tablespoon curry powder
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
3/4 cup chicken stock
1/4 cup brown sugar
2 tablespoons lime or lemon juice
1 teaspoon soy sauce
Salt to taste
10 (6 inch) wooden skewers, or as needed, soaked in water for 30 minutes
Directions

Stir together 1/2 cup coconut milk, garlic, 1 teaspoon curry powder, brown sugar, salt, and pepper until the sugar has dissolved. Toss marinade with the chicken, cover, and marinate for at least 2 hours.
Bring 1 cup coconut milk, 1 tablespoon curry powder, peanut butter, chicken stock, and 1/4 cup brown sugar to a simmer in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Simmer for 5 minutes, stirring constantly, until smooth and thickened. Remove from heat and stir in lime juice and soy sauce; season to taste with salt.
Preheat a grill for medium-high heat.
Thread marinated chicken onto skewers, then grill 4 to 5 minutes per side, or until cooked through. Brush each side with warm peanut sauce.

I served it with my brown rice from last night (didn't have jasmine) and sugar snap peas.

Recipe for Sugar Snap Peas

INGREDIENTS
sugar snap peas
1 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon seasoned salt

Sautee ingredients and cover on low for 5 minutes.

The taste was wonderful but next time I will cut the tenderloins in half as it was too thick in my opinion.

[Tulip]

Re: Adventures in Cooking: Thailand

That looks great Skelly.

Question - Did you use regular creamy peanut butter or a type with no added salt/sugar or what not?

[ILP]

Re: Adventures in Cooking

Lemongrass any kind of meat/poultry/fish/tofu/pork
prepared just like stirfry...but add in nuff lemongrass

[Skelly]

Re: Adventures in Cooking: Thailand

@ Tulip...I used regular ole peanut butter... I forgot to mention that where it says curry powder, I used the red chilli paste as that was all I could find. Was great either way. I so did not want to waste the marinade..tasted like it cudda eat by itself

@ ILP...mek it an poas yu pic an recipe..tonx!

[ILP]

Re: Adventures in Cooking: Thailand

No lemongrass dish gwine mek until mi can locate a store in the borderland weh sell Lemongrass and fish sauce...

but here is the basic list of ingredients that i use. however, i dump and substitute things all the while and it still turn out nice.

1 cup chicken, cut into bite sized pieces.
3 tablespoons of lime juice
2 tablespoons of fish sauce or shoyu
2 tablespoons of chicken stock
1-3 tablespoon of thinly sliced Thai chile peppers
1 teaspoon of sugar
1 tablespoon of sliced shallot (purple or red onion) &lt;if you nu have this onion will do
1 tablespoon thinly sliced garlic.
2-3 tablespoons sliced fresh lemongrass
2 tablespoons diced spanish onion
1 tablespoon of spring onion (scallion/green onion), thinly sliced

marinate the chicken (if you can) in the lime (2 tbs) and the fish sauce for an hour or so.

heat the oil and then stir fry the vegetables and chiles until it smell nice. then add the rest of the stuff and continue to stir fry until chicken is fully cooked through.

i've added carrots, snap peas, bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, ginger, broccoli, etc to the recipe and like i said the dish is really versatile. the only thing you must have is the lemongrass.

Eat with the grain (rice, quinoa, wheat berry) of your choice.

[Skelly]

Re: Adventures in Cooking: Thailand

sounds delish! I may have to send yu a care package

[Skelly]

Re: Adventures in Cooking: Thailand

Tonight's dinner:


<span style="font-size: 14pt">Thai red curry shrimp with coconut saffron rice
</span>

My daughter says it smells like a restaurant up iin here I an I a go wolf down dis food den poas di recipe later

[CeaBee]

Re: Adventures in Cooking: Thailand

I approve of these swimps ..

send some fi this I ....unless them spicy..then i tek back the approval.

[Gen]

Re: Adventures in Cooking

I am the exact opposite. I don't cook that much yard food cause is me alone really would eat something like all rundung suh when mi get round yard food I overdose

so I mostly cook other foods

I haven't cooked thai in soooo long cause my favorite is the red curry with cokenat milk and cokenat milk too fattening. I could bathe in the red curry

plus mi a try do mostly vegetarian things

[Skelly]

Adventures in Cooking - S.Italy/Mediterranean

Per request of Tulip begahug:

Sorry I had a crazy month!

Made this last night....angel hair and vodka sauce Usually served with penne but the girls like spaghetti better...and I made the sauce from scratch!!!... I should bottle and sell that shiznit! Recipe to follow