Can anyone recommend a good Thai cookbook or

[Vinca]

do you have a favorite Thai recipe? I'm teaching myself to cook Thai and need ideas. So far so good. Everything I've made so far has been really, really good.

[elleng]

1. Good for you!

I do restaurants!

[libodem]

2. My friends grew their own basil

That had that black licorice undertaste. That's what most Thai food tastes like to me. Most of it seemed like basic stir fry with the Thai basil added. Oh and it's Hot.

My advice is grow one of those Thai basils this summer and get a nice cook book or check Pin-terest for a recipe.

[many a good man]

3. This is a good one

Simple Thai Food: Classic Recipes from the Thai Home Kitchen
by Leela Punyaratabandhu

[link:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1607745232/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1|

Just make sure to follow her advice on finding the proper ingredients.

The author also has a great blog called She Simmers: http://shesimmers.com/ .

[Vinca]

4. That's a good suggestion.

I'm an avid gardener and was planning to up the production of cilantro, but I hadn't thought of Thai basil.

[libodem]

5. I recently moved

And how I have more garden space. I want to grow herbs, too. My friends did theirs in containers so they could take the favorites inside for the winter.

[azurnoir]

6. Not a book but a website

http://www.templeofthai.com/recipes/

I've made this one, it's a favorite, it's interesting because it uses a vegetable not normally associated with Asian food at least in the west and really good served with sticky rice

http://www.templeofthai.com/recipes/stirfry_thai_pumpkin.php

also for an herb garden Lemon Grass plants are becoming more widely availible and are pretty easy to grow

[Vinca]

7. Thanks for the lead. I was wondering if lemon grass can be grown where I live.

I suppose anything can as long as I bring it in in the fall if it's a tender perennial. I'll have to look for a place to buy some plants.

[azurnoir]

8. well I live in Mn and my neighbor gave us the first plants

seems to do okay

[Vinca]

9. Are they perennials or annuals?

I'm in NH so we're equally cold . . . unfortunately. Spring can't come soon enough.

[azurnoir]

10. outdoors annual indoors perennial

they can be started from seed indoors and then moved to an outdoor garden or grown in containers and moved back and forth

and no spring seems almost over due I can't wait either