thai food – In Good Taste http://ingoodtaste.kitchen Making Every Day an Occasion... Simply Sat, 28 Dec 2019 18:11:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-peonies-32x32.jpg thai food – In Good Taste http://ingoodtaste.kitchen 32 32 Pad Thai with Tofu or Chicken http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/tofu-pad-thai/ http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/tofu-pad-thai/#comments Sat, 02 Apr 2011 12:00:07 +0000 http://ingoodtasteblog.net/?p=1679 Ask anyone whose had Thai food what their first foray with the cuisine was like and they’ll probably mention Pad Thai.  A favorite dish among many Thai restaurant-goers, many of us have no idea as to how to recreate it at home. People are often intimidated to cook ethnic food but usually, you’re working with the same basic ingredients, but new spices and flavors. This dish is a lot slimmer than the Pad Thai you get from you favorite take-out joint, as I have a sneaking suspicion that most restaurants use more than three tablespoons of oil. You can use whatever protein you like here, but I suggest tofu or pre-cooked chicken. To be honest, cooking with tofu is easier and decidedly more appealing to me than cooking with poultry or beef. Don’t get me wrong – I’m as much of a carnivore as anyone else and I’ve been known to make myself a nice filet mignon on occasion – but the fact that you have to sanitize your cooking surface after touching raw poultry and can get a number of deadly diseases from meat that hasn’t been cooked properly will never cease to give me the creeps. Well, on […]

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