When I was just starting to get interested in cooking a friend of mine lent me a book about Thai cooking. And I didn’t give it back for over a year. Shevy had got me interested in Thai food by making me Phad Thai and despite the fact that she scalded herself with boiling water which somewhat interrupted the evening, I was smitten with the tastes of Thai food and demanded she teach me how to cook like that.

The author of the book is Vatcharin Bhumichitr who is a Thai prince. That doesn’t make him a better cook but I imagine it gives his food a very authentic Thai flavour! This isn’t the only book he’s written, there are a fair few to choose from. There are so many dishes to try but I ended up settling on a few of them to try and perfect. Which is not like me. Normally I run from new recipe to new recipe and have to remind myself to cook something I’ve made before. What I really like about Thai food, and one of the reasons I keep on cooking it, is that the basic ingredients are used in small quantities in so many dishes. So once you’ve gone out and bought fish sauce and sesame oil and the like you have most of the things you need to make that same dish, and others like it, all over again!

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