Thai-tanic Dinner July 3
We promised Amy and Tonia a while ago that we would show off our Thai cooking skills learned in Chiang Mai in January. (They also bought us an awesome wok for the wedding probably hoping that would get them an invitation to Thai dinner at our house all that much quicker ;-) ) Thai dinner turned into Thai extravaganza.
We started with Nino's already perfected Green Papaya Salad and Chicken Satay (done on the grill). The salad was perfect - we think what made it one of the best ever was that he used more thai chilis, balanced with the right amount of fish sauce and palm sugar. The Satay was a new recipe and turned out excellent. Marinated for 24 hours in soy, peanut butter, garlic and curry powder, we then bbq'ed them.
For main course we had Green Curry with tofu, eggplant and red pepper, fresh rice noodles stir fried with some veggies and Thai Beef Salad where we grilled the flank steak on the bbq. Curry was good. The rice noodles unfortunately were a disappointment. The noodles were bought the day before and didn't have the freshnest they needed. Because I cooked them before the guests arrived, they were a little gluey and gloppy by the time we ate them. The Beef salad was good too - probably could have sliced the beef thinner but it was very tasty ( marinated in lime juice, garlic, chili paste and mixed with tomatoes, red onions, cucumber and romaine.
For dessert, Tonia brought mango sticky rice from the Thai Kitchen recipe and it was excellent. Nino has been making this with cream, but Tonia used Lite Cocunut milk and I thought it was just perfect. She thought that next time she would cut down the sugar a little.
We had a great time hanging out with those guys and dinner was a success.
We started with Nino's already perfected Green Papaya Salad and Chicken Satay (done on the grill). The salad was perfect - we think what made it one of the best ever was that he used more thai chilis, balanced with the right amount of fish sauce and palm sugar. The Satay was a new recipe and turned out excellent. Marinated for 24 hours in soy, peanut butter, garlic and curry powder, we then bbq'ed them.
For main course we had Green Curry with tofu, eggplant and red pepper, fresh rice noodles stir fried with some veggies and Thai Beef Salad where we grilled the flank steak on the bbq. Curry was good. The rice noodles unfortunately were a disappointment. The noodles were bought the day before and didn't have the freshnest they needed. Because I cooked them before the guests arrived, they were a little gluey and gloppy by the time we ate them. The Beef salad was good too - probably could have sliced the beef thinner but it was very tasty ( marinated in lime juice, garlic, chili paste and mixed with tomatoes, red onions, cucumber and romaine.
For dessert, Tonia brought mango sticky rice from the Thai Kitchen recipe and it was excellent. Nino has been making this with cream, but Tonia used Lite Cocunut milk and I thought it was just perfect. She thought that next time she would cut down the sugar a little.
We had a great time hanging out with those guys and dinner was a success.
posted by Karen at 9:16 AM
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