Doug's easy Thai recipes
Sometime very early in 2000, due to the paucity of decent Thai restaurants near where I lived, I got inspired to try making my own Thai food. The results were mixed, and some of my early attempts were barely-edible disasters, but eventually (after much trial and error) I came up with a few recipes that I think are pretty good. I include here a few that I've refined.I cook these recipes on a regular basis (although not as often as I used to), and constantly tinker with the details as I go. Some of these recipes are slightly different than the ones I usually make (I tend to like things hotter than is entirely -- well, remotely -- reasonable), but I have made these recipes as posted, and have found them fairly decent. I also use these recipes as a basis for new experiments.
Thai red curry with beef
Or: a decent faux gaeng panang nua.
Thai chicken and coconut soup
Or: a decent faux tom kha gai.
Thai green curry with chicken
Or: er, ah, I dunno what the Thai name of this would be.
Spicy beef with cashews
A relatively basic stir-fry (but good).
Ginger chicken with honey
Another basic stir-fry (but also good).
Spicy pork
A token recipe for the other white meat.Additional notes:
All about jasmine rice, the only proper rice to eat with Thai food.
