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The Startling Decline of Nutritious Food and What You Can Do about It

August 9, 2022/0 Comments/in Food & Drink/by Perry Stevens

Where has all the nutritious food gone?

The world is facing an obesity epidemic, and it’s only getting worse. In the United States, for example, more than one-third of adults are obese.

This has been attributed too many factors: fast food, snacks in between meals, and sedentary lifestyles.

But there’s another problem that needs to be addressed: the slow death of nutritious food.

Khao Tom Gai

April 18, 2019/0 Comments/in Food & Drink/by Pattarathida Perry

Today I’ll be showing how to cook Thai chicken rice soup or as Thai people call it Khao Tom Gai.

It’s easy to cook and provides lots of good, healthy benefits for your body. The ingredients are very easy to find, you can just use what you have got available in your fridge. Below in the picture of all I have got for cooking but you can change it up anyway you want, get creative in your kitchen, no need to be the same same… make it different! :) So let’s start. —>>>

Ingredients for Khao Tom Gai

Chicken breasts
Salt
Black pepper
Pumpkin
Carrot
Mushroom
Celery
Coriander
Spring onion
Garlic
Steamed rice

The last ingredient that can be seen at the top of my picture, I don’t actually know the its name. That is weird, I know right! How can I buy it even if I don’t know its name? How? Easy when I go to the local market, I see it and buy it! Next time I’ll ask what it is called and update this recipe. Please remind me in the comments below! 55

How to Prepare…

First, I wash and clean all the vegetables and cut them up
Cut or slice the chicken after it has been cleaned
Chop the garlic and add the paste in to the heated oil in a small pan. Quickly stir the garlic until it smell nice and turns a golden colour
Add water into a big pot or pan and when it’s nearly boiling add the chicken, salt and black pepper
Next add carrots and pumpkin
Add mushroom
When all the vegetables are starting to go soft, then add the celery, coriander and spring onion
Now it’s ready to serve and garnish with a little extra ginger and coriander to taste

Thai Cooking Tips

I don’t add streamed rice into the soup pot!! Why? Because it’s going to be kept separate as dry rice not a rice soup!! If you want to save your Khao Tom Gai for another day, you can separate the soup and the rice. So keep the rice and soup separate and then later, when you want to eat it, just put it together, heat it up and serve hot.
If you like hot and a little bit spicy, just add some extra fresh ginger, it’s so good for your blood!
I always stir a little extra garlic into the soup to make it smell nice and taste of garlic.

I hope you try to cook and eat Khao Tom Gai for your dinner because it yummy! Arroy mak mak!

Let me know in the comments below what ingredients you used to make this recipe your own.

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Khao Tom Gai

Sustainable Farm Produce in Thailand – Paleo Robbie

May 15, 2018/0 Comments/in Food & Drink/by Perry Stevens

When it comes down to writing about food for this blog or buying food for our house, Katae is the one who takes care of business. I like to be outside growing fresh fruit and vegetables, while Katae likes to be in the kitchen creating new recipes and serving up wonderful, wholesome meals.

Lately, we have been discussing the origins of our food a lot more. The fruit and vegetables we grow we know without doubt, they have no herbicides, pesticides or any other nasty chemicals sprayed on them.

Tom Yum Fried Rice ข้าวผัดต้มยำ

April 25, 2017/0 Comments/in Food & Drink/by Pattarathida Perry

Hello Everyone!!
I’m back here again to cook Thai food and today I will cook Tom Yum Fried Rice. My Thai Tom Yum Fried Rice recipe makes a healthy meal and only takes a few minutes to prepare. Fast food doesn’t have to be unhealthy! Sound Good? So let do it…

What You Need to Make Tom Yum Fried Rice

Start with the following ingredients:
1. Meat (In this example I will use pork but you can use chicken or seafood etc.)
2. Thai Lemon or Manaow
3. Tomatos
4. Mushroom or any vegetable you like
5. Coriander
6. Kaffir lime leaf
7. Chili
8. Garlic
9. Soy Sauce

How to prepare Tom Yum Fried Rice

1. Clean the vegetable and meat, then chop them up.

2. Heat a medium sized pan, add chili and garlic at the same time.

3. After the garlic and chili add the meat.

4. Add mushrooms after the meat is cooked through.

5. Then add the other vegetables and stream rice.

6. Add soy sauce and Thai lemon or manaows
(In this example I used 2 manaows)

7. Add coriander and the Kaffir lime leaf.
Stir it up (as Bob Marley used to say) and then turn off the heat. Serve and you are ready to eat.

8. Your quick and easy healthy meal is ready!

PS. If you are Thai or just like ‘spicy’ you can add more chili. Also the same is true with Manaow, if you like ‘sour’ just add more.