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Recipe: Thai Suki

7/10/2017

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​Thai hotpot dinners can be found many places on the street and in restaurants throughout Thailand. All you really need is a electric hotpot with variable temperature that will fit on your dinner table. With the right pot, Thai Suki is a quick and easy meal to make at home too. Basically, Thai Suki is a just a pot of boiling water that the right mix of herbs, vegetables and meats.  
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The Base

The hot pot base is made real easy because there are herb sets that contain lemongrass, ginger, lime, chilli and kaffir lime leaves.  This spice set is really the base for several Thai soups, like tum zaap and tum yum. These items are chunked and placed into the pot along with a medium onion, also chunked.  Bring water in pot to boil.  with the exception of the onion these herbs are not for eating but only provide flavor.

The Sauce

There are many types of Thai Suki sauces available in Thailand.  They are all fairly tasty.  I suggest just trying any. I like to add lime and garlic to my sauce before using it for my Suki.

The Meat

Really any type of tasty meats will do, including pork, chicken, beef and seafood. They should be chopped in bite sized pieces and placed on a plate waiting to be cooked in the pot. I personally like pork and you can easily buy pork thinly sliced just for the hotpot. ​

The Vegetables ​

The most common vegetables used in the hotpots are cabbage, celery, corn on the cob, and various types of mushrooms.  Be creative, any vegetable you enjoy in soups will do.

Time to Eat

Place all the meat and vegetables on plates on the table adjacent to the hotpot.  Bring the base discussed above to a boil and add the vegetables and meat based on desire.  Be creative.  The boiling base will cook the meat and vegetables quickly. With chopsticks, remove the cooked items and dip into your sauce.  Be careful for the food is very HOT!  but very delicious.  ​
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Recipe: Healthy Mama Noodles

7/4/2017

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​Mama noodles are sour/spicy instant noodles found for sale everywhere in Thailand. They can be a quick tasty snack to hold you over until the next meal. BUT they can be quick healthy meal with very little effort. 

Being 'instant noodles', Mama noodles are cooked with very little effort. Just add a cup of boiling water from your kettle, mix in the flavor packets and let stand for a minute or two and they are ready to eat. However, add some chopped fresh vegetables like red onion, tomatoes, carrots, Chinese celery and a half a can of tuna and toss well. Bam! You have a great fresh noodle salad. 

Alternative ingredients: Any leftover meat you may have in your fridge, chopped. Also, most vegetables you like in other salads would also taste great with sour and spiciness of the mama flavor. 
Finished salad
Chopping vegetables while mama noodles are cooking in hot water
Tossed vegetables and noodles awaiting tuna
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Recipe: A quick morning Jok

7/2/2017

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​I finally know what to do with the remaining rice stuck to the bottom of the rice cooker pot after making rice for dinner.  As we all do, you place water in the pot and let the pot stand until the rice loosens from the pot.  I used to throw this rice away, then clean the pot.  Last night, I thought it already looked close to jok so I drained the rice of the excess water.  Added about a cup of water and put the pot back on the burner. Brought it to a boil then simmer. You can also add any leftover rice from the meal you may have. 

While simmering, I placed a half table spoon of pork powder, a splash of soy sauce, and some leftover browned ground pork (really, any chopped meat) from the fridge and simmer until thickened.  When thickened I threw in a half a medium sized red onion, simmered only for another minute or two just get the onion to sweat a little.  Placed in covered container in the fridge for the morning. Finished! 

In the morning, take out of fridge, place in bowl and microwave on high for 1 to 2 minutes.  Add vinegar and/or chilli to taste.  Ready to eat!  
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Recipe: Bumee Tum Yum Moo

7/1/2017

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Vegetables along with chilli paste and uncooked bumee noodles
Vegetables along with chilli paste and uncooked bumee noodles
Making a quick and tasty Bumee Tum Yum Moo can be easy if you have the right ingredients in the cupboard. For those that may not know what Bumee Tum Yum Moo is, it is a spicy and sour egg noodle soup. I have a great little local Thai Grocery store not far from where I live and I almost exclusively shop there for my weekly supply of food. I usually buy my vegetables and meats there and they have many Thai spices. Of these, I like to keep an ample supply of chilli paste, sold in small jars at the store. I also keep pork powder and lime juice. Once and awhile I buy fresh bumee noodle (thin egg noodle).

OK, here we go.. Take a medium size bowl, place a half a tablespoon pork powder, add a tablespoon of chilli paste and about a cup and a half of water, mix.. Add freshly diced vegetables such as red onion, tomato, chinese celery and fresh Thai basil (my favorite mix). I also add about 1/2 cup of ground pork (I usually keep in the fridge). Mix again and place bowl in microwave for 2 to 3 minutes to cook the vegetables, al dente.

While cooking, place two cups of boiling water in another bowl. Loosen the bumee noodles as you drop them in the hot water, let stand 1 minute Drain the remaining water, place noodles in the bowl with the cooked vegetables, add lime juice to taste, mix and eat. Quite Tasty!

With all the ingredients on hand, it only takes about 10 minutes to make. ​
Cooking the noodle takes only a brief dip in hot water.
Cooking the noodle takes only a brief dip in hot water.
The broth, vegetables and meat mixture before heating in the microwave.
The broth, vegetables and meat mixture before heating in the microwave.
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