How Stir-Fried Drunken Noodles Make the Sun Shine
It hit me about a week ago that I’m pregnant. Last week I was 35 out of hopefully 40 weeks of pregnancy—took me awhile to catch on. Last Monday I pulled my hip running my usual run. It now hurts to...
View ArticleThai Foodie’s Mini Sous Chef
Thai-Foodie’s newest sous chef arrived on Monday, September 24, at 10:04p.m., weighing in at 6.4 pounds and 20.5 inches—Rocco Felipe Pengjad. We are so in love—and so exhausted—but he is worth every...
View ArticleTongue Tingling Thai Ginger Chicken | Gai Pad King
Sorry about the lack of recent posts. I’ve been spending precious time with these two Thai men below, the little one has kept me especially busy. Yesterday was his one month birthday! We celebrated...
View ArticleHow Thai are you?
Dom called me during his lunch break the other day. After saying hi we both started to say the same time in Thai, “Have you eaten yet? What did you eat?” I giggled at how Thai I’ve become. In Thailand...
View ArticleEasiest Thai Meal Ever | Stir-Fried Mama Noodles
I was never a fan of tasteless American instant noodles—the ridiculously cheap ones called Maruchan Ramen that give legit Japanese ramen a bad name. In college I always resorted to Easy Mac for a quick...
View ArticleRomantic Nights of Pad Thai | Pad Thai Recipe
I raced down the Skytrain’s steps as I saw the red bus pull up with number 47 emblazoned at the top. I gasped as I made it right as the driver squeaked open the doors. All the Thais stared at me as I...
View ArticleIs It Your First Time Cooking Thai Food?
“I’m going to make you and Dom a Thai dinner using recipes from your blog while you are in North Carolina for the holidays!” my friend Rochelle told me on the phone. I began counting down the minutes...
View ArticleHow to Make a Thai-Style Omelette
The moment my eyes open in the morning, I am ready to eat. If I wake up early, I can’t go back to sleep because my stomach starts to growl and gently pulls me to the fridge. But usually I don’t mind...
View ArticleEasy, Yummy Tom Yum
Dom’s grandma put the two silver baht coins in Dom’s small caramel colored hand before he walked out the door. He held them tight as he ambled down the dusty path with huge, yellow-green banana leaves...
View ArticleHow Not to Cook if You Have a Baby
Sometimes I get a little too adventurous with thai cooking…especially when I’m making a weeknight meal and have a 5-month-old son to hang out with at the same time. It all started when someone emailed...
View ArticleCrashing into my Thai Cooking Class
I had my eyes closed and was praying for Dominic before he went to work when it happened. BAM! He slammed into the F-150 in front of our Subaru Forester. I screamed at the top of my lungs, which made...
View ArticleThe Best Thai Chicken Pizza Recipe
We gazed at the Grand Tetons towering off in the distance as we drove down the deserted two-lane road to Leeks Marina and Pizzeria, which sat on the shores of Jackson Lake in Moran, Wyoming. It was the...
View ArticleChicken Khao Soi Recipe
I could feel my stress float away and relaxation take its place, like it always does whenever I’m about to open my new issue of Bon Appetit. But before I could open it, Dom saw the glistening pictures...
View ArticleRecipe for the Perfect Thai Summer Salad: Larb
I went back to Thailand this week. Well, my tongue did at least. Dom surprised me and took me to eat at Spin Modern Thai Cuisine in Austin. It’s right down the street from us, which will now make our...
View ArticleRecipe for How to Make Rad Na Moo
Dominic and I both zoomed back in time yesterday. Our first bite of rad na, or lad na, was our Delorean that took us there. Dom arrived at a soi, aka side street, in Sukhothai. He had just watched the...
View ArticleThai Red Curry Chicken with Green Beans Recipe
My Thai hubby doesn’t like Thai curry. Isn’t he weird? He says it’s because many Thai desserts have rich coconut milk as their base, so he grew up believing that coconut milk, which many Thai curries...
View ArticleRecipe for WorldFoods Thai Fusion Rainbow Noodles
One day I opened the fridge, looked inside the veggie drawer and there were vibrant purple cabbage, bright orange carrots and crisp green onions staring at me merrily. Then on our kitchen counter there...
View ArticleSom Tum Recipe: Thai Papaya Salad |ส้มตำ
Yesterday I got highlights done in my hair while learning how to make som tum, Thai papaya salad. It was the best haircut highlight session of my life. Usually after I get the foil put in my head that...
View ArticleThai-Foodie Sous Chef Turns One?!
I know, I know, this isn’t a Thai recipe, but I know you all will be excited about this: on Tuesday my Thai-Foodie sous chef, aka my son Rocco, turned the big 1. One of my friends asked me if I made...
View ArticleNam Tok Recipe : Thai Steak Salad |เนื้อน้ำตก
When I taught in Bangkok, I would spend the hours before my lunch break sort of lesson planning, but mainly dreaming about what fresh, cheap Thai food I was going to eat for lunch. Sometimes instead of...
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