num_pages: 245
description: 80 stir-fried-saucy sweet-and-tangy mostly Thai-ish recipes from the mom who taught Chrissy (almost) everything she knows Pepper Teigen! Whether shes frying up a batch of her crispy-garlicky wings for Johns football Sundays or making Chrissy her favorite afternoon snackinstant ramen noodles with ground pork cabbage scallions and cilantroPepper Teigen loves feeding her famously fabulous family. Through these eighty recipes Pepper teaches you how to make all her hits. Youll find playful twists on Thai classics such as Fried Chicken Larb which is all crunch with lots of lime chile and fish sauce and Pad Thai Brussels Sprouts which bring the fun tastes and textures of pad thai to a healthy sheet of pan-roasted vegetables. And there are the traditional dishes Pepper grew up with like khao tod crispy rice salad and tom zapp hot and sour soup.Pepper shares stories about her life too such as how she used to sell sweet-savory kanom krok coconut-and-corn pancakes to commuters when she was ten years old in Thailand (now she makes them with her granddaughter Luna as a treat) and how once she moved to the United States she would cobble together tastes of home with ingredients she could find in her new homeland like turning shredded cabbage and carrots into a mock-papaya salad. Influenced by Thailand California and everywhere in between Peppers mouthwatering recipes and sharp sense of humor will satisfy anyone craving a taste of something sensational whether thats a peek into Americas most-talked- about familys kitchen or a rich and spicy spoonful of Massaman Beef Curry.
language: English
title: The Pepper Thai Cookbook: Family Recipes from Everyone's Favorite Thai Mom
publisher: Clarkson Potter