ImportFood.com March 16, 2010 Feature Thai Recipes and Specials

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March 16, 2010. Today our feature recipe is a Thai fried chicken that's cooked twice, to make the cooked chicken nice and "dry". Eaten with sweet chili sauce, the flavor is fantastic. We also have "Buy One Get Two Free" on our artisan Thai curry paste, and other features including a new street vendor video. Thanks for visiting ImportFood.com!


Dry Fried Chicken, "Gai Tod Hat Yai"	Dry Fried Chicken, "Gai Tod Hat Yai"	Dry Fried Chicken, "Gai Tod Hat Yai"

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Feature Ingredient: Sweet Chilli Sauce For Chicken, Mae Ploy brand
This distinctive, slightly sweet chili sauce was developed in Thailand specifically as a dip for the same type of chicken we feature in our recipe above. It's a fairly thick sauce, and if you've ever purchased barbeque chicken from a street vendor in Thailand, it was undoubtedly served with this sauce. Ingredients: palm sugar, red chili, vinegar, garlic, salt, water. No preservatives and no artificial coloring. Product of Thailand.

Thai sweet chile sauce isn't just for Thai food either, it's become popular among all types of food, served in every type of restaurant. You might find this of interest: Mrs Robert F Kennedy (Ethel Kennedy) is a repeat customer of ImportFood.com, purchasing this sauce in the 10 oz bottle. We emailed her asking for a personal endorsement, and she promptly responded with "Mrs Kennedy Loves This Sauce." If it satisfies the refined taste of Mrs Kennedy you too might like our Mae Ploy sweet chile sauce.

For just a few days we'll offer it here for only $1.50.


	$1.50 (reg $3.69) This offer is expired

Special Offer: 3 Hand Brand Thai Curry Paste For the Price of 1
We are pleased to be the exclusive importer of Thai curry paste from the highest quality spice company in Thailand. Made in small batches using the finest ingredients. Since 1999 we've made personal visits to various producers in Thailand, and Hand Brand is our top choice for curry paste based entirely on flavor and quality control. It's likely better than anything you can make at home using a mortar and pestle.

For this two day promotion, we will ship to you one box of each: Matsaman, Green, and Panang. The price is $3.79 for the set of three (the same we charge for just one box). So this is a "Buy One Get Two Free" deal. $3.79 is less than our cost to buy it, we are just offering it to our newsletter readers for the chance to enjoy and experiment, hoping you might buy more later.

Some favorite recipes using this curry paste:
Pork Satay, "Moo Satay"
Penang Beef
Thai Green Curry Shrimp with Noodles
Green Curry Salmon and Wild Rice


	Set of 3 Hand Brand Curry Paste $3.79 This offer is expired


	1 can $2.59

	6 cans $11.50

Ready-made Massaman, Aroy-D
We introduced Aroy-D red curry a few weeks ago, followed by Tom Yum, and customers have told us how much they like both. Now we have the same in Massaman flavor.

Each can of massaman soup has everything you need to enjoy an authentic Thai meal, including potato. It's simply "heat and serve" but there are instructions on the can. Add chicken (or beef) if you prefer, during the cooking process. Cook and serve with jasmine rice.

See our recipe for massaman chicken, made from scratch.

Ingredients: coconut milk, potato, chopped onion, chilli oil, massaman curry paste (shallot, dried red chilli, garlic, lemongrass, salt, galangal, coriander seed, cumin powder), sugar, water, soybean oil, peanut, cardamom, nutmeg, clove, citric acid as acidity regulator. No preservatives. Product of Thailand.

BACK IN STOCK Straw Mushrooms, Grown in Taiwan
Straw mushrooms are thick and hearty, among our favorite to eat with Thai food. They go well with Thai soups such as tom yum and tom kha. These are so hearty that they can be a good substitute for meat, so vegetarians will love them.

The very best straw mushrooms are grown in Taiwan. In 2008, adverse weather caused a severe shortage of straw mushrooms from Taiwan, so most importers switched to an inferior quality canned straw mushroom from Vietnam. Many of our customers have asked if/when we'd ever offer these again. We've just now received a new shipment of new crop canned straw mushrooms from Taiwan, and quality is excellent.

Net weight 15 oz, dry weight 7.4 oz. Ingredients: straw mushrooms, water and salt. Product of Taiwan. In each can you get about 40 straw mushrooms.


	15 oz can, Straw Mushrooms $3.89

Just Harvested: Fresh Thai Eggplant
Various kinds of eggplant ("makua") grow in Thailand. We just received a fresh shipment of "makua pot" variety. Grown in California, each eggplant is about the size of a golf ball, see photographs at left. These are perhaps the most common eggplants found in Thai markets, and very tasty.

Remove the top, and slice into wedges, then cook with red or green Thai curry for excellent results. We recommend putting them in a dish of water after slicing, until just before adding to your curry (they will turn brown in the open air, after being sliced).

Not just cooked with Thai curry, this eggplant is also enjoyed fresh. Dip fresh wedges into namprik kapi sauce for a very authentic Thai treat.


	$18.95 Fresh Thai eggplant, 16 oz (about 15 eggplants) This offer is expired

Order eggplant alone for $18.95 above, or take advantage of our generous offer of a kit containing the following items:

9 Fresh Thai eggplants
2 cans Aroy-D coconut milk
1 Hand Brand green curry paste
1 Hand Brand massaman curry paste
1 Hand Brand panang curry paste

If you order the kit below, checkout with UPS Ground and we'll upgrade to Priority 2-3 day service at no extra charge.


	$19.95 Fresh eggplant, 2 coconut milk, 3 curry paste This offer is expired

Special Price For our DVD:
Learn How To Cook
Like a Thai Street Vendor

Highest Quality DVD from Victory Studios, Seattle WA.

For two years we've presented new, professionally-produced Thai Street Vendor videos at ImportFood.com. Many customers say these videos offer the best instruction on how to cook authentic Thai food, and request that we offer it on DVD.

Our Street Vendor Cooking DVD offers 20 of our most popular videos in full picture format so you can watch them on your computer or at home on your big screen tv. Quality is outstanding, and the DVDs are professional grade not cheap reproduction discs from an office supply store.

The DVD (the first in a 3-part series) is packaged in a standard case, with a recipe booklet inside detailing the ingredients and method of each recipe shown in the DVD. More Info Here.


	DVD 1, $17.95

RECIPE CONTEST:
Win a Pansonic Rice Cooker. Just Use Kaffir Lime Leaf Powder
Anyone familiar with Thai cooking knows that kaffir lime is an essential ingredient in so many recipes. We've offered fresh kaffir lime leaves for years, and now for the first time we can offer kaffir lime leaf powder. This is fresh harvest, just picked and dried a few weeks ago. The powder retains all of the aroma and flavor of the fresh leaves.

We discovered that kaffir lime leaf powder adds wonderful flavor to all sorts of non-Thai recipes, such as bread, pasta, meatballs, it's even a very popular way of flavoring vodka.

Favorite Thai recipes using lime leaves:

Thai Prawn Soup With lemon grass, "Tom Yum Goong"

Thai Chicken Soup With Coconut Milk, "Tom Kha Gai"

Northern Thai Sausage "Sai Oua"

Thai Vegetarian Coconut Soup with Galanga and Squash

Red Chicken Curry, "Gaeng Phed Gai"

Thai Seafood Salad, "Yum Talay"

Order a package of this powder now, develop a recipe using it, then send us the recipe via email (whatever it is, however big or small). Next month we'll draw one name at random and send that person a free Panasonic rice cooker.

This contest is a few weeks old and we've only received 5 recipes, so your chance to win the rice cooker is good. Lots of people have ordered the lime leaf powder. Please email us by March 31st. Product of USA.


	$5.29 1/2 oz Kaffir Lime Leaf Powder

Special Street Vendor Feature Recipe--Massaman Gai. Here we take you back to the sidewalk chef Chantana in Thailand for a lesson on how to make authentic massaman. There's no better way to learn how to cook authentic Thai food than our street vendor videos.