Temple of Thai Cooking News Archive

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December 2007 Happy Holidays! Find a recipe for Masaman Curry from the South of Thailand, along with a step by step tutorial for a gorgeous watermelon carving. We offer you two fantastic gift ideas - a mulberry paper boxed fruit carving DVD and knife and also a set of three Thai Food Cooking DVDs from the famous Samui Institute of Thai Culinary Arts in Thailand.

November 2007 Get great gift ideas including our Deluxe Vegetable & Fruit Carving Knife & Book Set and Perfect Pad Thai Kit. Get started carving with this easy Canteloupe melon fruit carving centerpiece. Panang Curry is a rich, smooth curry you can prepare in less then 30 minutes with the help of Nittaya brand curry pastes from Bangkok.

July 2006 For summer entertaining at home get a recipe and all the fixings for grilled Chicken Satay and a Lotus Watermelon Carving. This months newsletter also features a new Fruit Carving DVD by Chef Ray Duey.

June 2006 Featured product this month is Thick Black Soy Sauce and as used in the delicious recipe for Beef with Black Bean Sauce. The fruit carving feature comes from the book Vegetable & Fruit Carving Exquisite Vessel and is the pattern for a Watermelon Fruit Basket.

May 2006 In this months's newsletter you will find step by step instructions for carving a carrot rose from our latest fruit and vegetable carving book, A Variety of Flowers. Also get a quick and easy Thai recipe for Seafood Salad in time for warmer weather, from A Passion for Thai Cooking, a new cookbook from Chiang Mai Thai Cookery School.

March 2006 Get a spicy recipe for Pad Kee Mao, Drunken Stir Fry Chicken. This dish is a favorite served with fire quenching drinks. If you don't have time to cook, take a short-cut with ready-made MaeSri brand Chili and Basil Paste.

February 2006 - Authentic Thai recipe for Mee Krob, Crispy Thai Noodles with Sweet and Sour Sauce from our cookbook, Best of Thai Dishes. Find out about the best type of noodles to use for this classic dish, Rice Vermicelli Noodles.

November 2005 - Try our authentic Thai Green Curry Recipe & Thai Green Curry Paste recipe from Popular Thai Cuisine cookbook; also check out our XL Granite Mortar & Pestles perfect for gift giving. No time to cook? Take a shortcut to homemade taste, with Nittaya brand curry pastes, flown directly from Bangkok.

October 2005 - In time for the fall season learn a floral Pumpkin Carving and for your Autumn parties try our new snacks as featured in the David Rosengarten Report, Snacks for Snobs!!! Find out about DIY Network Thai Party featuring Loy Krathong.

September 2005 - Food TV's Bobby Flay visits Bangkok Center Grocery in NYC to make his Thai-style BBQ menu for an outdoor party. American Life Networks cable TV host, Dim Geefay, teaches you 5 days a week how to make authentic Thai food in the Western kitchen with her daughter, Cathy.

July 2005 Watermelon Carving for a dolphin-shaped bowl perfect for serving summertime melon salads; introducing Nittaya brand curry pastes made fresh in the heart of old Bangkok and flown directly to our location in NYC, you cannot find a fresher curry paste for your authentic Thai curry.

January 2005 Happy New Year; featured recipe from the Authentic Thai Food cookbook, Thai Red Curry with Roasted Duck.

December 2004 Perfect holiday party fare get our Egg roll recipe with homemade Egg roll sauce.

November 2004 Red Chicken Curry Recipe with Homemade Red Curry Paste is our featured from Popular Thai Cuisine Cookbook, in time for holiday gift buying. See our article about Coconut and Cholesterol. Check out the granite mortar and pestles making the perfect gift.

October 2004 Meet Supatra Johnson, cooking instructor, restauranter, and cookbooks author. This month's newsletter features her easy Thai recipe for Chicken with Lemongrass. Shop for her new cookbook, Crying Tiger: Thai Recipes from the Heart.

August 2004 Pad Thai is a simple noodle dish that makes for a great one -dish meal in the hot dog days of summer.

July 2004 Satay makes for a great outdoor barbeque either with this authentic recipe or our already prepared pastes and sauces. See Popular Thai Cuisine cookbook on sale til the end of this month!

June 2004 This summer enjoy exotic drinks & desserts for a cool ending to your next Asian-inspired meal: Thai iced tea and Thai-style Corn Pudding. Bring you next backyard barbeque to a pleasantly unexpected finish, with these tropical treats. You will find many exotic Thai desserts in our Step-By-Step Thai Dessert cookbook now on sale!

February 2004 Discover the best Thai food brand from Thai cooking instructor Kasma Loha-unchit for creating great Thai food at home. Also we also introduce you to 2 friends of Temple of Thai: BellaOnline Thai Food Forum & a new line of Heat & Serve Frozen Southest Asian Foods from restauranter Joe Antonaccio and his wife Chanthip.

January 2004 Get an authentic Thai recipe for Yellow Chicken Curry with a curry paste made from scratch using dried roasted spices. Find out how to get Coconut Cream from Kasma Loha-Unchit. Enjoy our sale price on Authentic Thai Foods coobook, our best seller, from which this recipe was taken.

December 2003 Take 20% off our most popular Thai cookbooks in time for gift giving, enjoy a Thai recipe for Braised Beef Soup from our newest cookbook Popular Thai Cuisine and get you and your friends a beautiful granite mortar and pestle!

November 2003 Authentic Thai Foods cookbook, our most popular title is on sale this month; check out a recipe from it for Thai Fish Cakes, popular in Thai restaurants in the US. Also get ready for the holidays with our granite mortar and pestle, perfect gift for your holiday cooking or your friends

September 2003 La Cucinca Italiana magazine has featured our granite mortar and pestle in their current issue Style section for making olive tapenade. Also find our Homemade Thai Curry Paste kit with all the ingredients and a simple recipe to use with your new mortar and pestle!

June 2003 Hot weather is great for our authentic tropical Thai recipe for Green Papaya Salad from our Spicy Thai Cuisine cookbook. Check out imported Miracle Knives to make this salad in a snap. Also another easy vegetable carving using a cucumber for a White Lotus from our Step By Step Fruit & Vegetable Carving book.

May 2003 Don't miss this month's newsletter for two quick and easy recipes and techniques to add to your expanding Thai repertoire: a simple Spring Roll recipe from our Vegetarian Thai Cookbook and a fruit carving suitable for busy people, an Apple Leaf.

April 2003 Featuring a springtime Thai recipe for Thai Prawns with Aspargus and also unique Thai cookbooks imported from Thailand including Thai Desserts and Thai Hawker Food. Happy Thai New Year!

December 2002 Featuring Tom Yum: Thai Chicken Soup from our cookbook Best of Thai Dishes.

November 2002 Find out how to prepare lemon grass for cooking Thai food, and get a recipe for Thai Peanut Sauce from Kasma Loha-unchit. And Check out our special newsletter reader only sales!

September 2002 In the United States, it is time to go back to school, to rake leaves and start thinking about the upcoming holiday season. In Thailand, the kids have been at school since after the New Year in April, and the weather just continues to be hot. So if it is not too late, how about one last barbeque recipe, before it gets too cold! Chicken satay - not really a Thai recipe, but it must be on every Thai restaurant menu in the USA is our featured recipe for this month. Also we introduce several new products.

July & August 2002 Our featured ingredient is sticky rice one again. You will find sticky rice recipe links from around the world, as well as several Thai recipe links to the Temple of Thai.

June 2002 Enjoy a summertime recipe from Kasma for Marinated Grilled Chicken with Sweet Sauce served with steamed Thai Sticky Rice. Find out about different types of Asian sticky rice and get some great links to recipes around the web. Next month's newsletter will also feature this sticky staple!

May 2002 Featuring fish sauce: what it is; a visit to a Thai fish sauce factory; how to choose a good fish sauce; and two recipes using fish sauce from Thai cookbook author, Kasma Loha-unchit. Also find out how to say 'fish sauce' in 7 languages!

April 2002 Happy Thai New Year! We are celebrating 'Songkrah' in Thailand by throwing buckets of water on each other during the hottest time of the year. As the temperatures reach into the upper 90's, appetites wain and sleep is the only way to get through the afternoons. So please enjoy our greeting card from us to you to thank you for the great year. Thank you to all our customers!

March 2002 After a 4 month lapse (due to the busy holiday season) we are back with great sales for newsletter readers only! You will find an authentic recipe for the most famous Thai soup - Tom Yum Taleh. This recipe comes from the wife of a doctor in the South of Thailand. It is extra sour and spicy! Aroy dee! (Very delicious). Our featured ingredient is Kaffir Lime Leaf.