Thursday, December 30, 2010

Thailand Travel Information

If you are staying in Thailand, you should first be in Bangkok. There are several reasons to believe that is the first that all possible places in Thailand just to add modern amenities. As the tourists who visited these things are popular, but not limited to the reservation to enjoy a good infrastructure.

Bangkok has done an excellent job in preserving what makes it special, even before the enormous growth to a large part of the tourism and industrial development. The city is still full of Christmas (a small chapel outside of buildings house ghosts who come, the building itself), the traditional Thai buildings like temples and many places offer traditional Thai dishes.

Traditional Thai cuisine is not limited to restaurants. Here you will find many vendors offer a variety of sweet and savory snacks during your stay, so you want to be adventurous and try everything you can cross the border between the pad Thai and fried insects straddle can be sure that you find something what you like.

The festival was held in Bangkok also offers interesting opportunities to learn more about the culture of this beautiful country. Uniforms and the color of the clothing ceremony, colorful lights and displays in Bangkok found to improve most of the holidays.

If you are looking to explore and are in town, there are many possibilities. Rent a bike is much better than you first off, if you think with roads, it seems that cyclists are treated much more pedestrian. You can also take advantage of a tuk-tuk or taxi ride in Bangkok, but knowing that some drivers try to cheat. Read the agreement will immediately prior to departure is highly recommended.

Then when I leave in Bangkok, decided to go the only real travel arrangements .

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Thai Salad

Ingredients:

> 1 head romaine lettuce
> 1 head Belgian endive
> 1 head red leaf lettuce
> 3/4 cup peanut oil
> 1/4 cup fresh lime juice
> 3 tablespoons soy sauce
> 1 pound beef sirloin, 1-inch thick, cut in 3-inch long by 1/4-inch strips
> 1 and 1-inch piece fresh ginger, peeled and finely grated
> 1 tablespoon packed dark brown sugar
> 2 large cloves garlic, minced
> 3 fresh jalapeno peppers, finely minced
> 1/2 cup fresh cilantro, chopped coarsely
> 3 red ripe tomatoes, cut into wedges
> 2 scallions, finely chopped

Tear the romaine and red leaves, the leaves into small pieces. Carefully remove all the leaves of the chicory root, to leave everything behind. Place the vegetables in a plastic bag, seal and in the fridge for later.

In a bowl, mix two tablespoons of olive oil, lemon juice and soy sauce. Add strips of meat out of the marinade, stir well. Leave at room temperature for about 1 hour.

For the sauce in a food processor or blender, 1 / 2 cup combine oil and remaining lemon juice, soy sauce, ginger, sugar, garlic and jalapenos. Puree until smooth. Set aside.

When the oil is hot, let the beef strips. The meat in a frying pan or wok and fry quickly until browned on the outside. Remove the strips of meat and add the marinade. Bring to a boil, then remove from heat. Mix.

Serve Place vegetables in the refrigerator to a large heatproof bowl, cover with strips of warm meat. The marinade / sauce with meat mixture, then add the coriander, tomatoes and chives. Stir and serve immediately. Thai beef salad 4 .

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Thai Food is Good Health

Health is often a good meal. If you're like me, only eat what is quick and easy, and the drive out of their way to work or a quick lunch. After retiring from working outside the fast food on the way of children's football, or maybe swimming lessons. Our days are so busy they have no time to even prepare meals. Poor diet can not hurt. There are healthy alternatives. Some of them are so quick and easy to prepare!

I'm in Thailand my favorite Thai food. There are different kinds of delicious Thai dishes are prepared fast and healthy meal on the table in minutes, that the family loves.

Thai cuisine is very healthy for you, because the ingredients are good for you. Most vegetables grow, although summer is winter, I buy the local market. Now I'm trying to organic vegetables and even food for my children to buy as possible. Some of the plants used in Thai cooking, while others feel it's all new to you. For example, bamboo is 05 possibilities, Thailand used. Bamboo is used in salads, fried curry and many other provisions as well. Another plant, love is the Thai eggplant is a small, round and green. This is not the standard eggplant, delicate but full of flavor. Thailand also enjoy many kinds of squash, pumpkins, and a variety of pumpkins. Most recipes for pumpkin-like squash kabocha call, in fact, the United States and Europe. Also known Japanese squash.

Thai recipes are a lot of herbs, including lemon grass, many types of basil, coriander and cilantro and, of course, Chile. Thais eat chili per person than anywhere else in the world. If you want a hot meal, add a little "more Thai chili. Is found Of all the herbs in the taste of Thai food and do not need more salt and sugar and other flavorings that are bad for your diet to add. I think it could be the reason so few cases of things like diabetes and other diet-related diseases in Thailand.

I love food and try new recipes. Often vary my way of cooking, or to use what I have on hand when you can not get all the ingredients .

Monday, December 27, 2010

Amazing Thai Recipe

Bamboo Shoots: Bamboo shoots are a lot of Thai recipes asked. Prepare the skin with bamboo, it is necessary to cook and white inner stalks boiled in water for 30 minutes. If you use bamboo shoots, only 10 minutes of cooking, canning, or if you're a curry or soup, the temperature may not be necessary.

Basil (fresh): There are three types of basil used in Thai cooking, the sweet, holy, and lemon. Basil is much easier to find, because it is widely used in western cooking. Holy basil, spicy taste and a lemony flavor and can be recognized. Lemon basil is a lemon flavor and it can be seen in its different smell of lemon. If you can not find, basil lemon peel can be compensated by the addition of basil, lemon or chopped chili peppers.


Bergamot: Also known as kaffir lime leaves are slightly chalky taste, suitable for all Thai food is. Because it can be difficult to find because of the lemon peel can be used instead, despite the surrogate mother.

Chili paste: This can be bought in bottles or tubes in almost every supermarket. Used to flavor and taste of the court, a particularly popular version by Thai cooks is burnt mild chili paste.

Coconut milk: Coconut milk can be bought almost everywhere. If the recipe you are using calls for coconut cream scoop the harder white substance that has formed at the top of the can. If you need coconut milk, stir the can thoroughly before using.

Sunday, December 26, 2010

All About Thai Sauce Receipe


The secret of Thai cuisine is one of two things from, herbs, Thai sauce and Thai Herbs. Herbs are the smell, but delicious sauce. Thai food is delicious Thai cuisine in a perfect sauce. If you have the right combination, you are going with an excellent Thai cuisine. 

Dipping Sauce

> Prik Naam Pla (fish sauce with lemon slices and Chile) - a versatile sauce that almost all the food comes with rice. Some of the restaurants in the spices.
> Prik Naam Som (chili sauce and vinegar) - flavored noodles
> Naam Prik Pao (roasted chili paste) - the sauce in a variety of dishes (soups, salads, potatoes) are used. Some people use Priko Pao Thai Nam as a substitute for the jam to spread on toast.
> AA Jaade (pickled cucumber Salad) - ideal for salsa dip the fish cakes, satay and fried snacks
> Naam Jim Saate for (peanut sauce) - one of the most famous Thai sauce. He knows that people are not only justified, they switch to satay dip, but replace them as a salad dressing, pizza sauce, the disc, Thai sauce and more. Americans call a "See Food" sauce, which see Eat the dip.
> Naam Jim Salay (seafood sauce) - yes, you guessed correctly. Naam jim Salay has all the needs of fish sauce. Transfer the melted butter! Get ready for the party in your mouth. This poor boy is full of flavor and bite, the combination of a strong spicy, sour, salty and sweet knock your socks off (if good).
> Naam Jim Buoi (plum sauce) - popular with children and people who can not handle spicy food. J-Buoi Nam, this is suitable for all fried foods.
> Model Choe (soy sauce) - are for hot soup and sauce and dim sum dumplings used.
> Naam Jim Talay (chicken, sauce) - sweet and spicy sauce. Large BBQ Chicken
> Naam Jim Seir Rong Hai (crying tiger sauce) - Crying Tiger is one of the most popular dishes in the United States. Consists of fish sauce, ground roasted rice, chili pepper, soy sauce, and lime juice.

Rice Salad Recipe


This recipe contains ingredients that can be found at your local supermarket and one of the delicious Thai food I've ever eaten. Salad may be the warmth and traditional cuisine from Thailand, cayenne pepper, chili flakes,  instead allows everyone to make it as spicy as they wish. However, it has to be a little bit spicy or it wouldn't be Thai.

For 2 people:

1 1/2 cups cooked long grain rice
2 tablespoons olive oil
3 tablespoons fresh lime juice
3 tablespoons Asian fish sauce
1 heaping tablespoon sugar
Pinch of cayenne pepper
4 scallions chopped, including the green parts
3 carrots grated
1 cucumber peeled, halved lengthwise, seeded and cut into 1/4 inch dice.
1/4 cup fresh cilantro chopped (you can substitute parsley if you have to but I would rather use dried cilantro)

Grain oil, lemon juice, fish sauce, sugar and pepper to taste and blending for five minutes. Then mix all ingredients in a bowl and mix well.

I can guarantee that if you make this once you will make it again.

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Chicken Noodles Recipe

 
Ingredients:

1 1/2 teaspoons chilli powder
3 tablespoons cornflour
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
2 tablespoons oil
350 g (12 oz.) chicken fillets, thinly sliced
4 spring onions, thinly sliced
1 carrot, sliced
1 celery stick, thinly sliced
2 tablespoons mirin or sherry
500 g (1lb) Hokkien noodles, gently
pulled apart
2 tablespoons oyster sauce
250 g (8 oz.) baby bok choy, washed, leaves separated

Directions:

1. Mix the chilli powder, the cornflour and salt and mix them well. Oil in wok, then high. Coat all chicken pieces mixed with corn and roasted in small batches for about 3 minutes per game, or up to gold. Drain on paper towels and remove the chicken from the wok.

2. Heat the wok and add the following to the remaining oil over medium heat.Add the spring onion, the carrot and the celery and stir-fry them for about 1 minute. Add the mirin and all the noodles, in the mean time tossing well until all the vegetables have softened.

3. Add the oyster sauce and 2 tablespoons of water; cover it and steam for about 2 to 4 minutes, or until all the noodles are tender.

4. Add all the chicken and the bok choy and toss them well. Cover and steam for about 30 seconds. Serve it immediately. You can garnish your meal with ground peanuts, chilli flakes and some lemon juice.

Pad Thai Noodles Recipe

Pad Thai rice noodle dish with cream sauce combination of shrimp, chicken or tofu thrown. To do this, take a shopping list.


Recipe ingredients: 4 Cups Of Rice Noodles (Soaked In Water For 3 Minutes), Raw Prawns Shelled, 1 Cup of bean sprouts, 1 Egg, 1 finely chopped spring onion, 1 Tablespoon of chopped shallots, 1 Tablespoon of chopped garlic, 1 Tablespoon of chilli flakes, 2 Tablespoons of ground roasted peanuts, 2 Tablespoons of sugar, 1 Tablespoon of fish sauce, 4 Tablespoons Of Tamarind Juice, ½ Cup Of Water, 2 Tablespoons Of Fresh Cooking Oil.


Fish sauce is an essential ingredient in many curries. It is fish, but you can get something easily available in supermarkets.

Part 1: When all the ingredients list with garlic and shallots tablespoon oil begins to shine over medium heat. Then add the tamarind juice, fish sauce, sugar and water. Mix until thickened sauce. Then took the sauce from the heat and the other half.


Part 2: Heat the wok and add the following to the remaining oil over medium heat. Fry the prawns add the egg and stir.  Then add the noodles and stir until tender.

Part 3: Add in the sauce you made in part 1 plus the tablespoon of ground up peanuts, spring onions and bean sprouts. Fry and stir for one minute and you're done. You can garnish your meal with ground peanuts, chilli flakes and some lemon juice.

Friday, December 24, 2010

All About Thai Food


Thai cuisine is known for its cuisine known, smell wonderful, and poorly prepared. In the kitchen, may irritate the senses. Even before eating, which is designed for aroma and taste. We can not wait to eat when they grasp the wonderful smell of the kitchen. At the end of dinner, the kitchen is a balance between taste, spicy, sour, bitter, sweet and salty. Basic Thai cuisine is fish sauce. It comes in all regions of the country, and if fish, and this is a salty taste.

Thai cuisine, there are extenuating circumstances, such as breakfast. People eat the same food for lunch and dinner. In Thai culture, where people gather to eat, they tend to eat breakfast, and bags. You should eat plenty of food cooking, people. Two basic aspects of Thai cuisine is rice and noodles. Rice is served at every meal. Pasta of the most popular and frequently used. Pasta can be served in soups. Sticky rice, rice cakes, the most popular by far.

Thai dishes with herbs and spices in Thai cuisine is famous for its delicious prepared. Many fruits and vegetables for the kitchen and offer a variety of flavors, colors and textures. There are five pepper, the spicy flavor is used in many dishes. Some fruits are in many dishes that are used in a variety of desserts. They do so mild that the Americans serving fresh fruit for dessert are themselves sometimes they are something a little more coconut milk.

One aspect of Thai cuisine is the use of insects. His roast. Some errors are used grasshoppers, crickets, silkworms, bees, larvae and eggs of ants. These leaves are usually fried with chile, garlic and lemon. Fish is still a big part of the protein. Pork is also used. Bratwurst is a dish that can be enjoyed in Thai cuisine. Curry paste was used and often serves as a dip vegetables and soy sauce is often used in fried foods .

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