Cooking is so much more fun when it doesn’t feel like a lot of work. Little things do make a difference in making it go faster!  5 Tips for More Efficient Cooking  

So you have curry paste, and of course you use it for curries…but is that all you can make? Not at all! There are SO many different delicious ways to incorporate curry pastes in to various dishes. Whether you buy the paste or make it, curry paste is one of the most versatile ingredients in […]

How to Use Whole Grain Rice in Your Cooking As much as I LOVE a beautiful bowl of fragrant white rice, there’s no denying that it isn’t the healthiest option. Lucky for us Thailand grows many different types of whole grain rice, namely brown rice, red rice and black rice, also known as riceberry. In […]

   Thai Vocabs for Easy Menu Reading  

My presentation at The Dirty Apron Cooking School in Vancouver.  Presentation Excerpt pt 1 – Basic Thai Ingredients  

The continuation of the presentation. More on what I call “The Basic Thai Pantry.”  Presentation Excerpt pt 2 – Basic Thai Ingredients  

We’ve already seen in Part 1 that carbon steel wok is the way to go. So now let’s talk about caring for your wok so that it will remain non stick forever, and it will add a smokey wok flavour to your food! As you’ll see it’s super easy and quick, don’t let anyone tell […]

Coconut milk is absolutely crucial to Thai cooking, so I made a video to hopefully answer all your questions about it! Here you’ll find info on everything from what is coconut milk, what is NOT “coconut milk”, coconut milk vs coconut cream, how to choose from so many types of coconut milk, and more! RELATED […]

How do you choose a good curry paste? Should you be making your own? How do you store it? What IS a curry paste anyway? In this video I answer all of these questions and more! Curry paste is so key to Thai cooking, so to really understand curry paste is super important in understanding […]

Yup, I tasted fish sauce straight up, just for you 🙂 Fish sauce is my favourite seasoning in the kitchen, and arguably the most important ingredient in a Thai kitchen! Fish sauce is used in almost all of my recipes, it is indeed our equivalent of salt in the Western kitchen. However, what’s a good […]

Galangal is one of the most important ingredients in Thai cuisine, in fact, I often call it one of the holy trinity of Thai food (the other two being lemongrass and kaffir lime leaves). In this video I demystify galangal by talking about everything from how it smells, ways to use it and how to […]

The holiday season is coming up, so I thought I would make a gift guide for all the foodies in your life! These are items that I either received as gifts and liked, items that are on my wishlist, or just things that I think are generally cool and would make great gifts! A few […]