Try Something Thai

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Photo of Thai Green Curry Chicken by Appon of Appon's Thai Food

If you love Thai food in restaurants, but haven't had the courage to try making it yourself, check out these blogs for some Thai cooking tips.

Yich from Sim Cooks does a

spotlight on lemongrass and shares a great-sounding recipe for Tom Yum Goong the famous Thai Shrimp Soup.

The Gracious Bowl, a blog all about soup, offers a different version of Tom Yum Goong, topped with a spicy chili jam.

Chez Pim recently posted a fantastically detailed Pad Thai for Beginners, which has generated lots of comments.

Appon's Thai Food is an entire blog of Thai recipes, with unusual dishes as well as more familiar ones like Green Curry Chicken . There is a great recipe index here in the left sidebar.

Barbara from Tigers and Strawberries also has a Thai Recipes category in her recipe archives.

And when you're feeling brave enough to try making Thai Green Curry Paste from scratch, Haalo at Cook (almost) Anything At Least Once has a recipe for you.

Contributing editor Kalyn Denny from Kalyn's Kitchen doesn't have a lot of experience making Thai food, but she recently tried making Thai Chicken Soup, which was mighty tasty.

Submitted by Kalyn Denny (view blog

) on Sun, 02/04/2007 - 12:46

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My favorte Thai Recipe

Hi Kayln,

I absolutly love Thai food and I think it is great that you wrote this blog/article about it. I was terrified of trying to make any type of Thai dish at home. It just all seemed to complicated, so whenever I felt the craving of Thai food I would go out to eat. Well, a few months ago I ran across a bunch of Thai recipes on the web site I work for (Recipe4Living.com) and I ended up making just a few. I needed to prove to myself that I could do this. I will admit, I did mess up a few times but that's what trial and error is...right???? But I wanted to share with you my favorite one so far, here is the recipe and I hope you enjoy! It's called California Thai Flank Steak. The mint and lemon grass is simple amazing in this recipe!

Ingredients

1/3 C. soy sauce
1/4 C. rice vinegar
1/4 C. rice wine
1/4 C. fresh lime juice
2 Tbs. dark sesame oil
1/2 small red onion, chopped
1/4 C. chopped fresh basil
1/4 C. chopped fresh mint
3 Tbs. sliced lemon grass
3 Tbs. crushed peanuts
3 Tbs. chile paste
1 Tbs. ground coriander
1/2 tsp. garlic salt
2 lbs. flank steak

Directions

In a large bowl, combine soy sauce, rice vinegar, rice wine, lime juice and sesame oil. Stir in onion, basil, mint, lemon grass and crushed peanuts. Season with chile paste, coriander and garlic salt. Layer flank steak with marinade. Refrigerate 6 hours or overnight. Preheat an outdoor grill for medium high heat, and lightly oil grate. Spray a large sheet of aluminum foil with non-stick cooking spray. Drain liquid from marinade. Layer meat on foil with the remaining non-liquid marinade ingredients. Fold edges of foil to seal, then grill for 20 minutes.

Submitted by Sarah P on Tue, 02/06/2007 - 09:17

Love the Sound of this Recipe!

I love the sound of this recipe. Thanks so much for sharing.

Kalyn Denny
Kalyn's Kitchen

Submitted by Kalyn Denny on Wed, 02/07/2007 - 07:28

You Are Welcome

Hi Kalyn,

You will have to let me if you try this or not.

Here is another fun recipe I have found for you and your readers- except this is a cocktail recipe that one of our subscibers at our Web site (Recipe4Living.com) sent in last week and I tried it over the weekend and as weird as it sound it is very tasty! Hopefully you like to have a cocktail every now and then :)

Kaffir Lime Martini

Ingredients

2 1/2 oz. Hangar One Kaffir Lime vodka
1/2 oz. lemongrass syrup (recipe below)

Lemongrass syrup:

3 qts. water
3 stalks of lemongrass
1 peel of a lemon
1 kaffir lime leaf
10 1/2 lbs. sugar

Directions

Boil the water with the lemongrass stalks, lemon peel. Wait until water reduces and you can smell the lemongrass. Throw in the kaffir lime leaf. Reduce some more. Add sugar. Wait until syrup begins to foam, and then remove from heat. Combine vodka with lemongrass syrup. Serve in martini glass.

Have a great day! P.S. I think your articles are awesome.

Submitted by Sarah P on Thu, 02/08/2007 - 07:20