Quick & Easy Thai: 70 Everyday Recipes

There are only 70 recipes, and too many of them are angled toward various curries or fish, to the exclusion of staples like Tom Yum soup. The photography is excellent, but more variety is needed.

This is by far the best Thai cookbook I have come across. With easy to follow instructions and beautiful pictures. I have two copies and give them as gifts to friends wanting to learn to cook Thai.

With my wife's recent interest in Thailand and a pending trip to boot, I picked up Quick & Easy Thai. I still figure one of the best ways to understand a different culture is through a full belly. Quick & Easy Thai has one of my most important prerequisites for a good cookbook...great pictures. Although I have only made a handful of dishes, the pictures which adorn the pages of this well constructed book beg to have me make more. The recipes are easy to understand and comprised of ingredients that you should not have to travel off of the beaten path to find. The author gives the reader a good primer on Thai cooking and delves into some of the specialized ingredients and tools that a beginner might need. A lot of Thai cooking can be quiet spicy. Fine by me...not so fine by the misses...on a few recipes, I have had to back down the heat. Even with different palates...the end result was still fabulous. I looked at a number of different books before settling on Quick & Easy Thai. So far, this appears to be one of the best.

I purchased this book in order to make the shrimp curry with pineapple which my wife loves. Although I'm sure it's not the most authentic Thai book out there, the recipes are simple and easy to make and taste enough like the real thing for me. So far we've made the above curry, Spicy Basil Stir-Fry, grilled flank steak with Crying Tiger sauce as well as a few of the noodle dishes. All were great and very quick. An added plus; most of the dishes are quite healthy or can be with a few quick changes. I use light coconut sauce to help lower the calorie content. The recipes are really quick too - once you've chopped the food the cooking times are very short. The book has many great pictures too.

Quick and Easy Thai is my first sustained foray into Thai cooking, and I couldn't be more pleased. The recipes are easy and delicious! My husband and I eat a lot of Thai food, and now we can make it ourselves thanks to this book. The author is especially good at encouraging readers to try recipes even without some of the more hard-to-find ingredients. Well done!