Quick & Easy Thai: 70 Everyday Recipes (Paperback)

by Nancie McDermott (Author), Alison Miksch (Photographer) (Photographer)
Key Phrases: tangy cucumber pickles, thai iced tea, grilled garlic chicken, Sri Rachaa, Sweet-Hot Garlic Sauce, North Carolina (more...)

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Product Description
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.

About the Author
Nancie McDermott is a food writer and cooking teacher specializing in the cuisines of Southeast Asia. She came to know the food and culture of Thailand during the three years she spent living in the Thai countryside as a Peace Corps volunteer. Her stories and recipes have appeared in numerous national magazines. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Alison Miksch's photographs have appeared in Better Homes and Gardens, Country Home, and Redbook, and can also be seen in Luscious Lemon Desserts (0-8118-2893-X). She lives in an 18th-century farmhouse in Pennsylvania.

Product Details

• Paperback: 168 pages
• Publisher: Chronicle Books (April 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811837319
• ISBN-13: 978-0811837316
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 8.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #11,731 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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88 of 90 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quick, Easy and Delicious!, March 10, 2005

By	Jen "Jen" (Houston, Tx) - See all my reviews

I love cookbooks and cooking. When my husband and I decided to get on an Asian kick, we chose this book because it eases you into Thai cooking. With no outrageous ingredients, octopus or black squid ink, this cookbook offers the lover of this type of cuisine an easy and very delicious alternative to some of the more authentic recipes offered in other cookbooks. By authentic I mean the strange ingredients. The Chiang Mai Curry Noodles is excellent and depeding on which curry you try, panaeng or red curry, can be hot and spicy, delicious. The Paht Thai Noodles were made in our household two nights in a row they were so good. The chicken coconut soup is a very refreshing dish and the Green Curry Chicken with Zucchini and Jasmine Rice was something even my three year old enjoyed.

In the beginning there is a small investment to be made in ingredients the average American does not have in their pantry. There is a fish sauce,(which is used in practically every asian recipe and in this book), soy sauce, and sri rachaa which is an Asian hot sauce and various curries and a couple other spices. But, once this book hits your life they will be as common and familiar to you as ketchup or mustard. Excellent pictures for those, like myself, who love pictures. If you are considering this book, go ahead without further reservation.

48 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Title Says It All, March 21, 2005

By	Margaret M. Schmitz "stuckinbog" (Willmar, MN USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I purchased this cookbook for one recipe, Mussamun Curry Beef with Potatoes and Peanuts, and since tried and loved many recipes. I have not found a recipe from this cookbook I have not enjoyed. The recipes are easy to follow and taste great. They MAY not be original Thai recipes, but they have Thai influences in common dishes, i.e. salmon cakes. The original Thai meals taste like the Thai dishes I have had in good Thai restuarants.

My only complaint is that there is only one recipe for curry paste, red curry paste. I am going to purchase a cookbook that has recipes for the curry pastes so I can make them as well. However, having the curry paste recipes in this cookbook would not be true to the title, quick & easy. Not having more curry paste recipes does not deter from this cookbook.

I would recommend this cookbook to people who enjoy to cook as well as those who are new to cooking. The recipes are great to "wow" guest and put an easy meal on the table.

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It really is quick & easy!, May 25, 2006

By	frootsmoothie (Seattle) - See all my reviews

I'm a college student who grew up in a family where the most elaborate meal we had was chili dogs, so needless to say I didn't pick up a lot of culinary skills. At first I was worried that the recipes would be too complicated or exotic for me, but my boyfriend and I love asian cuisine so we thought we'd give it a shot. I'm so glad I bought this cookbook! It really lives up to its name - every thing is quick, easy, and delicious! The curries are wonderful and simple to make, and there's even detailed instructions on how to make rice (again, great for the cooking-impaired like myself!) The ingredients are generally inexpensive and easy to find (even at my dumpy little grocery store.) I would definately recommend this cookbook to anyone who is unfamiliar with asian cooking or new to cooking in general. Wonderful book!

Edit: I have to edit my review and say that we recently made the Chiang Mai noodles (the dish featured on the cover) and it was SO wondeful and easy. My boyfriend has been begging me to make it again all week. Another hit from this book!