Quick & Easy Thai: 70 Everyday Recipes

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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 641.55509593 EAN: 9780811837316 ISBN: 0811837319 Label: Chronicle Books Manufacturer: Chronicle Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 168 Publication Date: 2004-04 Publisher: Chronicle Books Studio: Chronicle Books
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Editorial Reviews: Now busy home cooks can bring the fantastic flavors of Thai cuisine into the kitchen with a simple trip to the grocery store. Nancie McDermott, experienced cook, teacher, and author of the best-selling cookbook Real Thai, presents this collection of 70 delicious recipes that focus on easy-to-find ingredients and quick cooking methods to whip up traditional Thai. With recipes like Crying Tiger Grilled Beef, Grilled Shrimp and Scallops with Lemongrass, Sticky Rice with Mangoes, and Thai Iced Tea, along with McDermott's highly practical array of shortcuts, substitutions, and timesaving techniques, anyone can prepare home-cooked authentic Thai meals -- as often as they like.
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Could not have been more disappointed Comment: This book is more bright colors and design than substance and you will learn very little about Thai cooking from it. The recipes are very poorly described and there is a distinct lack of photographs to help you find your way. The stilted writing style fails to help you develop a passion for or understanding of the history or cultural essence of Thai cooking and food. The same recipes from other books produced flavors far closer to the food I eat in Thailand. It failed to touch my foody soul and left me totally cold. Customer Rating: Summary: Quick and easy, but not always delicious Comment: I'm a university student expanding my cooking horizons and i bought this book hoping for some savory thai cooking. Although many of the recipes are good alot of them are just tasteless. I wouldn't really recommend this book as its kind of hard to tell which recipes are going to work, and which ones arent. Customer Rating: Summary: Easy to make recipes with restaurant quality results Comment: I've long been a Thai food fan, but kept it to the realm of takeaway until I got this cookbook. I'm usually wary of books with words like 'quick' or 'easy' in the title as they seem to be synonymous with poor quality, or recipes that contain artificial ingredients. But I got this cookbook after seeing all of the positive reviews and have been delighted with the results. I've made probably half of the recipes in this cookbook, and really appreciate how the author has simplified the recipes without sacrificing flavor. For example, she will often list a necessary ingredient (Thai holy basil) but recommend a substitute (regular Italian basil) for when you can't get real Asian ingredients. I've also found that I can now avoid the local takeaways--my green curry is definitely better! A few months after I got this cookbook I went to Bangkok and took a Thai cooking class and was pleased to see that everything I learned there was in line with this cookbook. For serious cooks out there, don't be turned off by the title. These are dinner party ready recipes. Customer Rating: Summary: Not an ordinary cookbook Comment: I am so impressed with this cookbook. My husband and I love Thai food, so we decided to try cooking it at home. I gave a library copy of the book a trial run - I kept it for two months, loved it, and finally decided I had better just buy it. Normally, you are doing well to get a few recipes out of a cookbook. This one is the exception. Every recipe is wonderful. Thai food now appears weekly on our table. Customer Rating: Summary: Quick & Easy Thai: 70 Everyday Recipes Comment: You really get what the title of the book says - Quick and easy Thai. It actually could be named - quick, easy and tasty Thai. I highly recommend this book to everybody who doesn't like spending too much time in the kitchen but still wants to surprise his/her guests with a delicious meal. More Reviews