Farang Food/Home Cooking

Many years living in Thailand. Miss some things from back home but not enough to complain about it. Hamburger, Mince and onion pie, chili dog, etc. I chose to live here and would not live any where else in the world. I can eat Thai food as long as it is not too spicy. I know people who live here and refuce to eat Thai food. No matter what you think this is still a third world country. Irish Clock, City Lodge ??? My wife cooks Falang food and eats the same. For a night out it's Chinese, Laos, Viet Nam, etc. Cost? Cheaper then you can do at home. Falang food my wife cooks at home, to expensive according to her to eat out.

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im about to go to UK for 6 weeks with my TW, im praying she gets along with farang food!!! if not the alternative is 5 quid for a Kow pat gai in a resteraunt, etc etc...... so yes we are lucky here, but the first thing i eat will be meat and potatoe pie, chips and onion gravy. mmmmmmmmm..... cant wait... then after that i wanna come back!!!!

Hamburger, Mince and onion pie, chili dog,

make sure she is well stocked with some recipes..............just back from an out and about, first 3 stops, irish clock for my meat pie, tj's for yank, nobi's for potato salad, and the sausage burgers with it, and stock up on some deli meats, for them home sandwiches on hot day, little paris ham and salami.

happy eating...........

I thought all you Texas boys missed the harmony grits with you eggs & coffee and possum pie for desert

My wife just cooks Thai food every day, only 'slightly' less hot for me, and I love it. I definitely don't miss the western food. Once in a while we eat steak someplace, but often that's more becourse the Thai think I would enjoy it, but if I have a choice I always prefer a Thai restaurant. I only draw the line at insects and such, they are said to taste fine but I leave that to others, almost anything else is okay.

My wife went with me to Holland several times and we never had any problems with the food. If possible she prefers to cook for ourselves and then there is enough in the supermarkets to make a more or less 'normal' Thai meal, but when we were with friends she eats chips and potatoes without problems and at least pretends she likes it. My oldest daughter was more or a problem and rather chose to starve to death then to eat western food, surprisingly my youngest daughter didn't care in the least and really enjoyed the food.

Ree is a fine cook, but i have corrupted both of them, they enjoy western food as much as myself. they can both put away a meat pie from clock, or a cordon bleau from nobi's. Gem, well both love my version of italian, tacos, salsa. quite surprising, cold cuts, burgers, beef steaks, at home, along w/baked beans and beef stew. all winners with their taste buds. i had ham and salami sandwich tonight, them, tom yam, but before i could put the salami away, slices demanded from both. too funny at times. Ree has come up with a couple nice western versions of stuff herself, damn tasty ribs one day, w/homemade sauce/hers, w/sis's help.

i wouldn't call myself a big fan of thai food, though easily 10 things i enjoy on a consistent basis, though not much would be considered isan food, which really does nothing for me. i'm about 50 / 50 on making thai food at home, 50 % tasty, 50 % to the trash can, so i leave that to ree. use to be a bit more thai than western for me, now it seems to of swung a bit the other way, they're still more thai, but a eat a fair amount of western.

was in amsterdam for long weekend, before moving one, the food, well, good thing they had beer and hash, that's some boring stuff, or i was in need of a tour guide. mayo on chips also sweden, but smaller town, and not much interested me there either, except the italian home cooking of my niece's home, who's mother is straight up, south philly italian heritage.

again, happy munching.

Hold on! LA Whats with the baked beans? Previous post you said they were a" Brits" thing! But You yanks started it!
Ever since I have been staying Thailand, I cook and freeze my own farang food.You name it, I made it.
The internet is a wonderful place to get all your information and recipies.
I can eat most Thai foods(NOT EESAHN).But I find After an hour I am hungry again.
I have often asked my wife to taste my cooking, but she will never do Why cant these people eat normal food?
Who could resist a plate of crispy battered fish.(Almost identical to Cod from Macro) She wont even try!
Her excuse? ...".Make me fat". Huh! she's like a bean pole now! Bless her!
Only farang food I cant make is english sausages, which I can but here any way.

A bit of cao niao and som tam .......is that with Pala, or without? For those who dont know. PALA is the most disgusting concoction I have ever come across.It smells to high heaven like rotten fish....Which it is.
I asked my missus" why you not put in fridge"? ....No ploblem. I said it must be so full of bacteria...She said Yes it is !....no ploblem.

Your welcome ! I found the secret( with the fish.)
Hey! Good news....steak pie, chicken pie, pork pie, cookies, indian curries,roast beef,roast potatoes, mango chutney, ginger marmalade, ....ect. ect ect........
Bad news ....Ive scoffed the lot
Really, I have a large freezer almost empty.due to ( money too tight to mention) So, later I will get into the mood and start cookin' again.

About 80-90% of the time it's Thai food for me, but every now and when I get the urge I go out for a burger at TJ's or a meat pie at the clock and once in a while I drop in at Nobis. I also hit up the Sunday roast about once or twice a month at the clock. Some times my wife joins me, but she prefers to get her farang food fix when I make it at home or when we pay a visit to Relax 39.

At home I do all the cooking and enjoy it, especially when discovering new ingredients or experimenting with recipes of food that I miss. My wife seldom cooks Thai food and we prefer to eat out or have take away and eat at home.

well I miss my pastrami & corn beef good pasta sauce hebrew hot dogs Colombian coffee
of course some pies like coconut & apple Pizza now it oat meal with wheat germ in the morning
and rice soup in the evening what I eat in between is my secret Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh don't tell
Jun

LA Whats with the baked beans?

for breakfast..............and worst, straight out of the can.............blasphemy.

when i make baked beans, i buy the cheapest, it's a bean, you can't screw it up (27 baht size can, cheapest brand). then drain off all that stuff they call sauce.....down the sink. saute some onions, peppers (r-g), and throw in what ever meat, actually meat first, here, usually cumberland sausage, skin removed, and bite size pieces. fry that up, meat done, veggies, just starting, but not thoroughly cooked. then add the beans, 2 cans, and the fried ingredients equal about a can's worth, 1/3.

now the flavor, bbq sauce (hienz), maple syrup, mustard, wiskishire sauces, little garlic, and if in the mood, some cayene pepper, tho rare. salt and pepper to your taste, i use neither. now the hard part, well for me, since i don't have proper over, bbq grill, indirect heat, and raised off that, in a bread pan, same as i use for lasagna,(covered with tin foil, not tight, let air/moisture out, check and remove foil after 10 mins,) and hopefully heat adjusted to med, and 20 minutes to 'bake' the dish and cook off moisture.

i'll have to make a batch one of these days and ring you up, or if glen reopens, nice side dish with his sandwiches. no measured ingredients, all on the fly. with everything in frying pan, enough bbq sauce to cover 1/3 on top, half that amount of maple syrup, couple dashes of w. sauce. a dollop of mustard, whether dijon or spicey. personal taste, but 1/2 tsp. that's all. give that a couple stirs, add spices to flavor, easy on the garlic. let set to bubbles, then in pan and to the oven/bbq grill. watch it, because of the maple syrup, it will burn fast. or just my hot grill. but in states, no stir fry except meat, and oven for 45 minutes. after everything in pan, if looks a bit thin, don't worry, plenty of juice from veggies and beans, then it will thicken up when baked.......................delicious.