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Quick & Easy Thai: 70 Everyday Recipes | 
 enlarge | Author: Nancie Mcdermott
Creator: Alison Miksch (photographer)
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 10172
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 168
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 8.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 0811837319
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.55509593
EAN: 9780811837316
ASIN: 0811837319
Publication Date: April 2004
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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.
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 Quick & Easy Thai: 70 Everyday Recipes June 1, 2008
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.
Quick & Easy is just the beginning of it! April 26, 2008
I LOVE THIS BOOK! I've only had it about 2 weeks and I've made several of the recipes. I consider myself to be an experienced amateur cook. Some of the foreign food books I've purchased get a little tricky at some points or make some parts of the recipes hard to understand. This book is simple, easy to understand & not too "wordy". Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm dying to make some more "Yum Woon Sen"
 Fun book February 16, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book has been a great introduction to Thai cooking for me. One word of warning: though the title says "quick and easy," the recipes are not usually quick and easy at the same time. The ones I've done so far have been easy, but not quick. I'm sure that there are others that are quick, though. Or maybe I'm just slow. :)
70 Nice & Easy Thai Recipes... February 12, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I love to eat Thai food. I am a good cook, but not a great one by any means, so wanted to a Thai Cookbook that offered quick, easy & delicious recipes to follow for my busy lifestyle. This one fit the bill!
I have yet to try all the recipes in this book, but the few I have tried have been delicious and enjoyed by my husband and my self. The curry dishes are fabulous!
I like the layout of this book and the one or two paragraph introduction written by the author before each recipe. The "Useful Utensils For Cooking Thai Food" section at the end of the book is also good!
Great introduction to Thai cooking January 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have tried several of the recipes in this book, and they work. The author has done a great job at reducing the various recipes to their tasty essentials. Over-complexity is the bane of most professional chefs- it seems nearly impossible for them to resist going a step or three beyond a sensible stopping point. But Ms. McDermott resists this temptation admirably.
The recipes use traditional Thai ingredients, and she also suggests alternatives, and offers a list of mail-order Thai groceries. My favorite substitution is plain yogurt for coconut milk, which is not suggested in the book, but as much as I love coconut milk that's a whopping lot of calories and saturated fats. Good yogurt adds a bit of tang and creaminess, and you have to remember to add it last so it doesn't cook too long and separate.
She also gives tips on modifying the various dishes; you don't have to be a slave to the exact recipes, but can try different ingredients, such as different meats, different veggies, different types of noodles, and so forth.
Most of the dishes are well-photographed in full color. If your local grocery doesn't stock everything used in the book, ask. My small-town grocery will order lemon grass and lime leaves without even thinking the request is odd. :)
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