Rachel Ray’s new season and rocking Thai food!
I have been a very happy camper. Our local network moved Rachael from the late afternoon to a morning show. I always loved her last year but I’d have to leave 1/2 way through to pick Amy up from school. So this new AM thing is perfect background noise for my life! Rachael always cooks dinner on the second half so I always missed it last year.
Today I was sucking air on the eliptical machine when Rachael did her daily dinner and today it was Thai It You’ll Like It A Thai Restaurant take for home cooking. I could tell just watching her make it, it’d be GOOD… Way good. She suggested chicken tenders as an alternate to shrimp if you were a seafood-a-phobe. Which we are not, but I was hoping to avoid the grocery store so I thawed out some tenders. It was all good until I realized we didn’t have any fresh basil, so then I made the grocery run and bought some shrimp too. I think we will be doing a chicken/shrimp combo for awhile b/c the kiddos are all shrimp wary. WTH…. Some day you’ll see the light picky little children!
The fresh basil… I’ve wanted to have it for awhile…I think I”m going to try and soak and grow shoots on the one stalk that is left over. from today’s meal. The only reason we aren’t growing it is b/c the seedlings got fried in the sun and we couldn’t find any good starters.
Anyways… This recipe was TDF! There is an error in it, the ingredients say garlic but there is no mention of it in the directions. I threw it in with the meat, and it worked great. And the fishsauce and lime… Pat was asking what I did to make it taste like Thai. Between the coconut, the lime, and fish sauce… it was all good! Dh is a picky picky eater and he LIKED this. The kids did too. I served it with fresh corn cut off the cob and steamed Zuccini (Corn from the vegitable stand around the corner… Zucchini home grown :-)).
