{"id":995,"date":"2008-11-30T23:19:24","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T22:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=995"},"modified":"2008-11-30T23:19:24","modified_gmt":"2008-11-30T22:19:24","slug":"thai-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/thai-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=thewidblo-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0002550296&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" align=\"left\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>Last Friday, we had Phyllis&#8217;s brother and his wife round for dinner.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to cook a bit of Thai food, using my favourite Thai cookbook: <i>Thailand: The Beautiful Cookbook.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>At first, I was thinking about cooking just a curry, but I then read its section on composing a meal: &#8220;Most often, in addition to the obligatory bowl of rice, there will be a soup of some kind, a curry, a steamed dish, a fried one, a sald, and one or more of the basic sauces.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That sounded a bit daunting, so as a compromise I decided to cook four dishes and serve them together: Fish cakes, prawn\/pineapple curry, beef salad, and broccoli with oyster sauce.<\/p>\n<p>They seemed to quite like it, but then it is an excellent cookbook.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how to make the fish cakes:<\/p>\n<p>Mince 250 g white fish fillets with a knife.  Mix the fish well with 3 tbsp red curry paste, 2 tbsp fish sauce, 2 eggs, 3 tbsp cornflour and \u00bc tsp bicarbonate of soda.  Chop some fresh basil and mix it in.  Shape the mixture into balls, 5 cm x 5 cm x 2\u00bd cm, and let them rest in the fridge for a while.  Then deep-fry them in hot oil (160\u00b0C).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, we had Phyllis&#8217;s brother and his wife round for dinner. I decided to cook a bit of Thai food, using my favourite Thai cookbook: Thailand: The Beautiful Cookbook. At first, I was thinking about cooking just a curry, but I then read its section on composing a meal: &#8220;Most often, in addition to the obligatory bowl of rice, there will be a soup of some kind, a curry, a steamed dish, a fried one, a sald, and one or more of the basic sauces.&#8221; That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,106,135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-fooddrink","category-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}