Thai Buffet Suggested by Savvy Mom Ruth Paget
When
we lived in Stuttgart (Germany) for several years, we went to the Auchan
hypermarket outside Strasbourg about once a month. The newest food trend at the time (2014) in
France was Thai food.
I
have tried several Thai dishes at Baan Thai Restaurant in Seaside
(California). My favorite dish in the
restaurant is panang curry, which is a red curry made of what seems to be a red
curry sauce and something flavored like mango over jasmine rice.
I
always get this dish now, but in order to expand my horizons a bit, I purchased
a copy of Lonely Planet’s cookbook entitled Thailand: From the Source –
Authentic Recipes from the People that Know them Best by Austin Bush
and Mark Wiens.
This
cookbook divides its recipes into four main culinary regions:
-central
Thailand and Bangkok
-northern
Thailand
-northeastern
Thailand
-southern
Thailand
I
read through the recipes and thought the following dishes might make a nice
Thai sampler buffet along with jasmine rice and Thai iced tea:
-deep-fried
catfish and green mango salad
-chicken
green curry
-red
curry with pineapple and prawns
-slow-cooked
beef in herbs
-chicken
braised in rice with turmeric and spices
-Thai-Muslim-style
salad with potato and tofu
Thai
curries are related to Indian curries.
Indian curries use dry spices whereas Thai curries use stewed chile
peppers than can be mild or spicy in their curries.
Most
of these dishes can be made ahead of time and served warm in chafing dishes.
This
might not be traditional, but a coconut flan would be a great finish to this
buffet along with a Vietnamese iced coffee.
By
Ruth Pennington Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
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