This was rather my simple interpretation of this thai soup. ‘Perfect soup for a temperature that is fast dropping.

700grams chicken fillet, sliced into bite size
.75- 1 liter water
4 kaffir lime leaves
2 lemon grass stalks (cut to 2″ pieces)
2 tbsp fish sauce
3 tbsp lime juice OR 2-3 tbsp tamarind sauce
100 grams sliced mushroom (champignon)
1 tbsp red curry paste (commercial)

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It’s my friend chef babyrambutan’s birthday tomorrow and I’d like to dedicate to her this salad, since she likes spicy food …
“we’re thousand miles apart and I couldn’t come to bear you gifts, I thought of making you a spicy salad instead”
Yam Neua or thai spicy beef salad.

1 lb cut beef […]

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this entry is for, xtine
though commercial thai pastes, like this red curry paste are of abundance in our markets, there are still some places where they aren’t being offered yet. so i just want to share, from my thai cookbook, how you can make this at home.

home made thai red curry paste or kruang […]

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Relentless winter! That’s what we’re having. I say enough!
But who am I to argue with mother nature, right? All I could do is wait (impatiently) ’til she decides to once again give birth to spring.
In the meantime, bodies are soothed these days with soup soup soup. Especially the (bit) spicy ones like my long time […]

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I was salivating for fishcakes the other day. There is no thai restaurant nearby, and the lone filipino restaurant that serves such cakes is in the city (a bit expensive for a 4-piece-per-serving, I guess this was the reason that put me off) …I decided to take out one of my 2 old thai cookbooks […]

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For 3 years now, our friends K & C ‘babysit’ for our ferrets whenever my little family is on vacation. Taking care of our two male ferrets (used to be 3, the female died) isn’t really easy because you have to make sure they have fresh food & water everyday, their house needs to be […]

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Simple crunchy pork (lechon kawali) combined with one of my favorite veggies. brocolli. Adapted the idea from a thai dish called Moo Krob -Moo means pork, Krob means crunchy. I’ve both used ‘regular’ brocolli and the thai brocolli (kale)

I’ve used the filipino way of preparing crunchy pork by using pork belly complete with skin […]

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