Thai & Cake

It took 30 seconds to walk over to a home made Thai feast tonight. The hosting family has been cooking for 24 hours, inspired by James McNair Cooks Southeast Asia.  

The efforts put into the meal must have been tremendous given that the hosting family is not from Southeast Asia, yet the meal was made with fresh spices and ingredients. 

The outcome was an amazing, colourful spread of 3 distinct salads and 3 main dishes washed down by Thai beer and followed by Anita Cake.

Thank you S, B, C, & C. 

A shredded green papaya salad with shredded carrots, red peppers and a refreshing, mildly spiced dressing.

Tasting the salad, you'd think you are eating some root vegetable, not green papaya.

A beef and potatoe curry (which John McNair calls Muslim Style Curry); cooked with a curry of cardamon, ginger, and cinnamon. 

The meat was marinated over night and you can tell that in the tenderness of the pieces. 

A hot green beans platter cooked with a red curry and shrimp paste (all prepared from scratch).


The beans were cooked to perfection, let alone the equal sizes they were cut into.

A cold noodles salad with pineapples, papaya, red peppers and green onions.


What made this dish unique is the fact that the noodles were simmered in coconut milk. White, fluffy and tasty.

A chicken red curry served over coconut rice. Simple ingredients of baby corns, bamboo shoots and red peppers.

The flavour was enhanced with lots of kaffir lime leaves. Not too spicy, but subtle delicious flavours that are hard to forget.

A fresh simple (almost fruit) salad to cleanse our palettes before Anita cake.

Red grapefruit, pineapples, papaya and cucumbers with a fish sauce dressing.

Are we stuffed or what after such a feast.

But no, there shows a 10 inch high Anita Cake.  It was a three layered sponge cake with (a) strawberries and strawberry mouse; (b) mandarins and mandarin mouse; and (c) raspberry and raspberry mouse all covered with whipped cream.

And to complete the evening, the hosting cats, L, showed up right in time for cake.

Thank you again S, B, C, C & L!