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Title:How to Make them Goodies
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Created:Tue Feb 18 1986
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4127
Total number of notes:31160

1072.0. "SAUCE: Thai Sauce Needed" by SALEM::MEDVECKY () Fri Mar 25 1988 11:41

    A few weeks back we went to the Kow Loon....that large Chinese/Thai
    rest. on Rte 1.....as an appetizer we ordered a Thai dish....forget
    the name....but it was shrimp wrapped in won tons, fried, and served
    with this small dish of dip.....it looked like a clear dip with
    reddish things...kinda like strands of saffron....
    
    Does anyone have the recipe for this dip.....it, the shrimp and
    our entire meal was absolutely outstanding..
    
    Thanks
    
    Rick
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1072.1Is this it?SUCCES::BURTONMon Mar 28 1988 12:2722
    
    
    If the sauce is what I think it is, it's just strips (or little
    chunks) of hot pepper skins in a msg "soup".
    
    To make you just soak the little chile peppers (there's a correct
    name but I can't remember) in warm water till they become soft.
    Remove the stem and scrape out the seeds. Cut the skins or run through
    the food processor till they're little chunks. 
    Place in boiling water (and fish or chicken stock-optional) add
    msg to thicken. You can add sugar to make this a sort of sweet and
    hot sauce too.
    
    
    I have made this with arrow root rather than msg but the sauce isn't
    as clear. 
    
    It sounds like this is the sauce you had.
    
    
    Rob
    
1072.3Thai CookbookSKIVT::P_MARGOLISPaula BethMon Mar 28 1988 14:065
    "The First Authentic Cookbook of Thai Cuisine" (Hot Pink and Bright
    Orange) should have the answer to any of your Thai questions.
    Thai is my favorite food!!!  Almost bought the cookbook yesterday,
    but it would have frustrated me...Try finding all those unusual
    ingredients in Northern VT!  :'(
1072.5Wilson's bookLYMPH::RYDERAl Ryder, aquatic sanitary engineerTue Mar 29 1988 22:563
    This isn't the same as the book mentioned in 1972.3, but the Nashua
    public library has a copy of Marie Wilson's "Siamese Cookery", 1965,
    Tuttle (Rutland VT), ISBN 0-8048-0530-x.
1072.6Thai Grocery - Greater Maynard areaMILVAX::MENEZESWed Mar 30 1988 11:4711
    There is an Oriental grocer in the Greater Maynard area. They have
    a multitude of Thai cooking ingredients, utensils, and gifts.
    
    
    JOYCE CHEN UNLIMITED
    423 Great Road
    Acton, Massachusetts
    
    (617)263-6922
    
    I believe a saw a few cookery books there also.
1072.7Another oriental food storeSUCCES::BURTONWed Mar 30 1988 12:3229
    
    
    There's another oriental food supply store in Leominster.
    It's right off rte 2, towards Fitchburg. It's a right turn into
    a little "mall" before the old Beef and Beer. It's owned by a 
    Cambodian couple and they're very nice and helpful. 
    
    They have some cookbooks as well as some utensils and of course,
    all types of foodstuffs to drain the wallet and fill the stomach.
    There's even frozen eels and milkfish,(the latter looks like a type
    of lungfish) both from more exotic climes than New England.
    
    One note though, be sure to check all dried items (ie. black mushrooms)
    for little bugs. I don't know where they get the black mushooms
    but they always have bugs. (I stick to canned for now) 
    
    RE: 6
     
    To anyone just starting out cooking oriental, the Joyce Chen's
    cookbooks are invaluable! It's been over 10 years since my wife
    and I started and we still find ourselves going back to our
    first Joyce Chen cookbook (now taped together and swollen with notes) 
    
    I think I'll swing by on the way home. It's been a while since I
    made curried chicken in coconut milk. (My wife craves this dish)
    
    
    Rob
    
1072.8Coconut Ice Cream ROLL::HARRISFri Apr 01 1988 16:5712

     While we're on the subject of Thai food, I am trying to re-create
     the coconut ice cream served at Chez Siam in Marlboro (and seen in
     various incarnations at other Thai restaurants).  Does anyone have
     a recipe for such a thing?  My first attempt (young coconut meat
     and juice, cream of coconut, heavy cream) had the right flavor but
     the wrong texture -- too creamy.  I would appreciate any
     suggestions.
     
     Thanks,
     Brian     
1072.9GOJIRA::PHILPOTT_DWThe ColonelThu Apr 28 1988 13:1310
       If I remember I'll ask my wife (she's Thai, and a professional
       chef) for her ice cream recipe tonight. However one thing I know
       is that Thai ice cream has NO milk products in it at all.

       /. Ian .\

       (PS a close friend of ours is now the assistant chef at Chez Siam
       - so perhaps next time I see her I'll ask for their recipe - it
       might be different.)
1072.12GOJIRA::PHILPOTT_DWThe ColonelFri Apr 29 1988 13:116
       OK I'll try for a sate recipe. Meanwhile I refer you to 1131 for
       Tod Mun (and a sauce) and my comments on sauces in 1129 (which I
       admit is out of place but...)

       /. Ian .\
1072.13re .8SCIFI::SZYSZLOSat Apr 30 1988 18:4518
    
    
    
    
    	A recipe that I've run across and tried for coconut ice cream
    calls for the following...
    
    	1 pint whipping cream
    	1 (14oz) can of coconut milk (1-3/4 cups)
    	  (or make your own)
 	1/2 cup sugar
    	1 t coconut extract
    	1/8 t salt
    
    	follow the instructions given with your ice cream maker using
    the above ingredients.
    
    -enjoy!