Here's a great looking recipe from Mark Bittman's blog. Roasted Vegetables, Thai Style

http://bitten.blogs.nytimes.com/200...les-thai-style/

Fatty Crab recipes including

Malay-style Pork Belly
Crispy Pork & Watermelon Salad (includes laaaaard!0
Chili Crab
Fish Head Curry

Wow, I have eaten food from this restaurant before and it is amazing, can't wait to try these recipes.

Just in time! I have 2-3 pounds of pork belly I want to cook up. It'll be my first time cooking it at home. The braising recipe contains a couple things I don't have including the 'kecap manis' - which is I guess a kind of sweet soy sauce?

Hmm - may split the pork belly and try one part Malay-style, and the rest some other style.

Sarah

You can make Kecup Manis just by reducing soy sauce with something sweet, palm sugar is what is normally used, but a dash of brown sugar would do it. You can just sub it for normal soy sauce if you don't want the sugar. I might check to see if there is an Asian market nearby for weird ingredients.

Bumping for reference.

So happy to find this thread.
Will update as I experiment with some of the ideas here.

I hope you can find some of the Thai curry pastes. I had to find some SE Asian supermarkets in my area. If you can't find it, you might try ordering them online: http://importfood.com is one place I've used. If you have a Thai restaurant ask them where to find Thai ingredients in your area. That worked for me.

This is the brand of curry paste I like best. Maesri. I think Mae Ploy is good too, I haven't tried it yet though.

There is a gigantic Chinese supermarket in the city I live. I have been able to find Japanese goods there, but never looked for Thai stuff before.

I will make a note of those brands for when I do get there.

some good looking recipes here, Nancy. so glad I found this thread. I've not done any Thai food at home, but have love all things Thai I've had at restaurants. Looking forward to trying out some of these!

I got burned out on Thai food, but I think it's time to go back to it.

We tried a Thai recipe for the first time last night using curry paste. Found the recipe here and it was okay, but not great.

So I read through this thread today and used several ideas to make another one and it is better! Of course, I really have no idea what Thai food is supposed to taste like.

Thanks everyone who contributed!



I really appreciate you sharing this idea. I have grown to really love cilantro and couldn't figure out why they don't sell it dried, but I guess it's because it loses it's flavor! I always run out or it goes bad before I can get to the store again, so this is a nice option! Thanks!

They must have Thai food in Dallas! Try it out. Curry is usually pretty LC, just avoid the yellow curry because they put potatoes in it. I usually ask for a side of steamed broccoli instead of rice.

Panang curry with duck is one of my favorites.