Jason King
AmyHuangMoo Phad Khing
December 11th 2009 08:41
It's been so long and I have so many articles to write it's ridiculous but I have some great stuff coming up. I have been to three cool restaurants and cooked numerous meals, not to mention the five films I am behind on with Salty Popcorn.
I just can't get into the zone to want to write at the moment and this week I have the parental units staying with me as we are off to Wicked on Sunday - YAY - I scored us second front row and am taking the pares out to an awesome Surry Hills restaurant afterwards.
But I did a boo boo this week, I not only forgot my best friend from school's birthday for the first time in 25yrs but this is also the same day as my parental's wedding anniversary. BUSTED. So to make it up for them I decided to cook them something yummy and Thai - their favourite type of food. I had just scored a major assortment of cookbooks from the Good Food Growers Markets - they were selling all books for $5- and awesome recipes were contained in those pages. So this meal I cooked for the parents last night although I found out last minute that my mum has been sick and can only eat steamed and bland food for a few weeks - CRAP. But Mike and I battled through the divine meal and mum eventually tasted some of it.
I have to say that this is now the BEST and YUMMIEST Thai meal I have EVER cooked and it will become a standard meal in my repertoire.
Being authentic Thai it was hard for me to find all the ingredients so I either substituted of left out. It was so awesome my stepdad and myself ate enough for four people between us
.
Sorry for only one crappy photo - had to use my phone as could not find charger for my camera.
MOO PHAD KHING - or if you can't understand that Stir Fried Ginger Pork
YOU WILL NEED:
* 6 TBSP Vege or Rice Bran Oil
* 2 TBSP chopped garlic
* 2 TBSP salted Soya Beans - this I could not locate so left it out
* 600gms pork fillet sliced thinly
* 2.5cups of ear mushrooms - these I could not locate but you can easily substitute for a multitude of Asian mushrooms - I used Enok - the long thin ones - but you can also use pin, straw, or shiitake mushrooms
* 1 cup of finely chopped onions
* 3 TBSP brown sugar
* 4 TBSP Oyster sauce
* 4 TBSP Soy sauce
* 1 cup of young fresh ginger, shredded. Young Fresh Ginger is VERY hard to locate so I used normal Ginger and I used 3 TBSP's of it finely grated
* 4 long thin chillies, I went 2 Red, 2 Green but you can mix up colors and use any chillies if you want - these are mild and assist the flavour as opposed to setting it on fire and NB: scrape out the seeds if you don't want it hot. 2nd NB: Do not be an idiot like myself and scratch your eye 30min after cooking - after my retina slowly evaporated mum rinsed my eye out in MILK and pain went away immediately - this is a GREAT TIP if you are ever in this situation!!
* 2 spring onions cut into pieces - seriously, in the end I only used the green part and you could easily just use schallots
* Jasmine rice to serve
Very Very simply all you need to do is:
* Start cooking the rice
* Heat oil in a wok or large pot/ pan on MED to HIGH heat
* Stir fry garlic until golden and smelling insanely awesome
* Add salted soya beans, pork, mushrooms and onion amd fry until cooked - about 4-5 mins
* Season with sugar, oyster and soy sauces
* Add the ginger and chillies - cook for 2min
* Serve on rice and garnish with the schallots
* Enjoy the hell out of it!!!
I just can't get into the zone to want to write at the moment and this week I have the parental units staying with me as we are off to Wicked on Sunday - YAY - I scored us second front row and am taking the pares out to an awesome Surry Hills restaurant afterwards.
But I did a boo boo this week, I not only forgot my best friend from school's birthday for the first time in 25yrs but this is also the same day as my parental's wedding anniversary. BUSTED. So to make it up for them I decided to cook them something yummy and Thai - their favourite type of food. I had just scored a major assortment of cookbooks from the Good Food Growers Markets - they were selling all books for $5- and awesome recipes were contained in those pages. So this meal I cooked for the parents last night although I found out last minute that my mum has been sick and can only eat steamed and bland food for a few weeks - CRAP. But Mike and I battled through the divine meal and mum eventually tasted some of it.
I have to say that this is now the BEST and YUMMIEST Thai meal I have EVER cooked and it will become a standard meal in my repertoire.
Being authentic Thai it was hard for me to find all the ingredients so I either substituted of left out. It was so awesome my stepdad and myself ate enough for four people between us
.Sorry for only one crappy photo - had to use my phone as could not find charger for my camera.
MOO PHAD KHING - or if you can't understand that Stir Fried Ginger Pork
YOU WILL NEED:
* 6 TBSP Vege or Rice Bran Oil
* 2 TBSP chopped garlic
* 2 TBSP salted Soya Beans - this I could not locate so left it out
* 600gms pork fillet sliced thinly
* 2.5cups of ear mushrooms - these I could not locate but you can easily substitute for a multitude of Asian mushrooms - I used Enok - the long thin ones - but you can also use pin, straw, or shiitake mushrooms
* 1 cup of finely chopped onions
* 3 TBSP brown sugar
* 4 TBSP Oyster sauce
* 4 TBSP Soy sauce
* 1 cup of young fresh ginger, shredded. Young Fresh Ginger is VERY hard to locate so I used normal Ginger and I used 3 TBSP's of it finely grated
* 4 long thin chillies, I went 2 Red, 2 Green but you can mix up colors and use any chillies if you want - these are mild and assist the flavour as opposed to setting it on fire and NB: scrape out the seeds if you don't want it hot. 2nd NB: Do not be an idiot like myself and scratch your eye 30min after cooking - after my retina slowly evaporated mum rinsed my eye out in MILK and pain went away immediately - this is a GREAT TIP if you are ever in this situation!!
* 2 spring onions cut into pieces - seriously, in the end I only used the green part and you could easily just use schallots
* Jasmine rice to serve
Very Very simply all you need to do is:
* Start cooking the rice
* Heat oil in a wok or large pot/ pan on MED to HIGH heat
* Stir fry garlic until golden and smelling insanely awesome
* Add salted soya beans, pork, mushrooms and onion amd fry until cooked - about 4-5 mins
* Season with sugar, oyster and soy sauces
* Add the ginger and chillies - cook for 2min
* Serve on rice and garnish with the schallots
* Enjoy the hell out of it!!!
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Comment by Helen Randell
Rough Cooking
Have fun at Wicked - second row seats - very jealous!
Comment by Jason King
Sydney Table
Salty Popcorn
Total Randomness
I kind of did think of that when I was cooking it though.
Yay Wicked - looking forward to a Nepalese dinner afterwards too.