Recipe for ground pork –Fried bread with ground pork spread

Easy recipe for ground pork to cook as a snack or appetizer for your party.  Although the original recipe used ground pork as a spread, you can substitute with any ground meat-chicken, meat, etc. This fried bread with ground pork spread  (Ka-Nom-Pang-Naa-Muu) is an easy-to-cook snack that even children can cook by their own or under parents guidance.

Fried bread with ground pork spread

5 Bread, cut into piceses

1 cup Ground pork

2 Eggs

2 tbs. Garlic

2 ts. Coriander root

2 ts. Pepper

2 tbs. Soy sauce

1. Crush or grind garlic, coriander root, and pepper thoroughly
2. Mix 1. With ground pork,  soy sauce, and egg, Stir until sticky.
3. Spread 2. Over the breads. Press until the spread stick with the bread.
4. Add some cooking oil into the wok or pan. Using medium temperature fried the breads (facing down) until cooked. Turnover and  continue frying until the bread is yellow brown
5. Serve with ajad (cucumber and onion in vinegar) 

The trick of this recipe for ground pork is to use the overnight bread, not the fresh one. The bread that left for days in a refrigerator would be the best. You can also use French bread and sliced with 1½ cm. (about half an inch).

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Easy Thai noodles recipe –Fried noodles with soy sauce

There are a lot of easy Thai noodle recipes.  As we all know, noodle is a basic ingredient for Chinese northern cuisine. Thais and Chinese have contact for years and there are a lot of Thai with Chinese ancestor. These Chinese immigrants brings along their cooking technics and ingredients to Thai cuisine.  This dish is another example of cultural exchange in Thai kitchen.

Fried noodle with soy sauce is so common that you can find it in most of a-la-carte shop or any street food shop. It is also easy to cook.

Easy Thai noodles recipe –Fried noodles with soy sauce

200 g. Wide rice noodles

¼ cup Pork (or any meat you like), sliced

½ cup Chinese broccoli, chopped

3-4 cloves Garlic, crushed

1-2 Eggs

1 ts. Sugar

1 ½ ts. Sweet soy sauce

1 ½ tbs. Soy sauce

1. Fried garlic with oil for 10-20 seconds. Add sliced pork and fried until cooked
2. Add wide rice noodle into the wok.
3. Add Chinese broccoli
4. Break the egg and put it in the wok. Stir.
5. Flavor with sweet soy sauce, soy sauce, and sugar.
6. Serve with vinegar, sugar and Thai paprika for flavoring.

This dish, like most of Thai a-la-carte dishes, can be flavor according to the taste of each individual. Some may like love sweetness, just add sugar. If you like it hot, Thai paprika is you choice. Also you can use lime juice (just slice for a piece) instead of vinegar.

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- http://www.thaigoodview.com/library/contest2552/type1/tech03/12/p11.html

Chicken and fried rice recipe -easy American fried riceChicken and Fried rice recipe -Easy American Fried rice

Though the name is American, this chicken and fried rice recipe is not an American food. It's Thai.Believed to be invented by a Thai chef for G.I. during the Korean and Vietnam Wars. Another legend said that it was invented by a manager of a hotel who tried to deal with the problem of the canceled American breakfast and lunch order, so she cooked the canceled order ie. sausage, fried chicken, ham, etc. with Thai rice and called "American fried rice" or Kao Pad American in Thai. This chicken and fried rice recipe is easy to cook and not spicy. Good for children or anybody who would love to tried Thai food but cannot tolerated the spicy taste.

Chicken and fried rice recipe -easy American fried rice

1 cup Cooked rice (better used old rice, or put the cooked rice in the refrigerator for a night after cooked)

1 Ham

2 Sausage

1 Egg

¼ cup Green peas

1 Onion, sliced

1/8 ts. Powdered pepper 

2 ts. Seasoning sauce

1 ½ tbs. Tomato ketchup

2 tbs.  Butter

1 Chicken leg

1. Mixed the cooked rice with tomato ketchup and seasoning sauce thoroughly
2. Fried the egg with medium temperature
3. Fried ham and sausage
4. Fried chicken leg (deep fried)
5. Put the butter in a pan. Add sliced onion and rice. Add green peas and fried with low to medium temp. You may flavor the dish with seasoning or soy sauce.
6. Serve the fried rice with fried egg, fried sausage and ham. Top with powdered pepper

For a better flavor of this chicken and fried rice recipe -easy American fried rice, You may add some raisin during the step 5 and have some fresh tomato (sliced), cucumber and/or lettuce as side dish.

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- http://www.xn--m3c2aazhl9ab1d.net/2012/05/blog-post_30.html

Simple dessert idea- Chinese Water chestnut in coconut cream

Chinese Water chestnut in coconut cream or Tub Tim Krob is a simple dessert idea. Easy to cook. A good dessert after a hot and spicy Thai meals.

Chinese Water chestnut in coconut cream

1 cup Chinese water chestnut, cube cut
1/2 cup Tapioca starch
3/4 cup Coconut milk
150 g. Sugar
3/4 cup Water
Ice, Coloring

1. Dilute pink coloring with water. Add chinese water chestnut and stir. Wait for 10 minutes.
2. Put the colored water chestnut into tapioca starch and stir.
3. Boil 2 cups of water. Put the chinese water chestnut and boil until 3/4 cooked. Take them out.
4. Boil sugar with water to make syrup. Stir for 2-3 munutes. Add coconut milk.
5. To serve-put the water chestnut into a bowl. Add the syrup and ice.

You can top this dessert with some sliced fresh coconut or jackfruit. The trick of this cooking is that you should not cook the 3rd step untill the tapioca starch is all crytal. That will be over cooked and the tapioca starch will be too soft and fall out. Just boil the water chestnut and see if the tapioca starch is partly crytal.

That's it! Enjoy your meal. :) 

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- http://topicstock.pantip.com/food/topicstock/2012/03/D11830521/D11830521.html