Steamed Carving Pumpkin custard with golden threads


This pumpkin custard with special carve top with golden threads aka Sang-Ka-Ya Fak Thong nar Foi Thong or สังขยาฟักทองหน้าฝอยทอง in Thai langue.

I've been posting for a long time in 2008. That's a typical one. Today I have a special design.
To impress visitors. Let's talk about the origin of custard slightly before we do.

Noi-Nar Ka Ti (Custard Apple in Coconut Cream)


A custard apple is ripe when you gently squeeze it and it gives slightly under your hand. Much the same as an avocado. You can buy custard apples ready to eat, or still hard to the touch and let it ripen over the next few days after purchase.

If you want to hasten the ripening process then simply put the fruit into a brown paper bag with a banana and leave it on the kitchen bench. The banana will accelerate the ripening of the custard apple.

Custard Apples are only eaten when soft, and only the flesh is eaten. To eat, simply cut in half and scoop out the white flesh. The Custard Apple should be moist with a pleasant sweet aroma. Once ripe, custard apples can be stored in the fridge for up to 3 days. Once the skin has gone purple or black, they have passed their best eating quality.

Kha-Nom Sa Li (Thai Steamed Egg Cake)



Kha-Nom Sa Li or Thai Steamed Egg Cake  is one of the auspicious sweets of Thailand, we believed that make life flourished and multiplied.  We most use in ceremony.   Texture of the pastry is light and fluffy and sweet aroma. Kha-Nom Sa Lee texture like sponge cake, the flavor is not too sweet  and it is very solf.

White Chaw-Moung and shrimp (Khanom Chaw-Moung Sri-Khaw sai koong)


Khanom Chaw-moung  or Steamed dark indigo flower flour with filling is another Thai dessert.  This dessert not easy to find present.  But for this recipe I didn’t  use any color filling, It is the natural color of the flour used... Because today we find it very difficult indigo flower.  But the lack of color makes the dessert  look clean and tasty.   But if you really want to taste I suggest try to do by yourself  better then out to find from somewhere else.   It’s more difficult to find.    This dessert will consist of 2 parts white is part of the flour and the mincemeat is filling….

Orange in Syrup (Som nai Nam-Chuem)


Fresh Thai tangerines have a highly aromatic thin greenish-yellow peel and are refreshingly sweet when ripe, perfect when served as fresh fruit or as a juice or cocktail mixer. To make the most of its delicate refreshing taste, oranges are served in a very light syrup on crushed ice.

Khow Nieow Bpiak Khow-pod (Sticky Rice with Sweet Corn and Coconut Milk)


Thai Sweet corn is a type of maize that is high in sugar and is considered a vegetable rather than a fruit. Grown throughout the northern parts of Thailand, sweet corn is the result of a natural-occurring recessive mutation in corn genes which control conversion of sugar to starch inside the endosperm of the corn kernel. Unlike field corn varieties that are harvested when the kernels are dry and mature (dent stage), sweet corn is picked while the corn is immature (milk stage) and is eaten as a vegetable, rather than a grain. Since the process of maturation involves converting sugar into starch, sweet corn stores poorly and must be eaten fresh, canned, or frozen before the kernel become tough and starchy. Sweet corn is very common within the Thai cuisine. The uses of the corn range from being eaten by it self to incorporated in salad, stir-fry’s, soups and desserts. Because of its sweet and crunchy taste the combining sweet corn in to any cuisine is quite simple as it is appropriate for a variety of flavors and texture is a pleasant addition to many dishes.  And here I glad to present you sweet corn dessert in coconut milk.

Thai Sweet Rice Crackers.


Organic Thai Rice Crack­ers are a deli­cious tra­di­tional Thai snack made from crunchy puffed brown or white rice. These glu­ten free,dairy free treats are hand-made using organ­ic­ally grown pro­duce and are ideal for a healthy snack,kids’ lunch boxes,party nibbles,or an after­noon treat.

Cha Yen (Iced Tea)


First of all, try to get a pack of Thai tea which is available at most Thai groceries. You may also want to get two cans of sweetened milk, also available in most oriental grocery.

Fresh Mango Juice (Nam Ma-Muang)



Mango has a great nutritional value as it contains high amount of vitamin A,B,C,E, proteins, carbohydrates and fiber. The packed nutritional goodness helps the immune system to fight against infections like cough, influenza, pimples, acne, fever, measles, typhoid, tuberculosis, eye disorders, heat stroke and diabetes.

Mango can easily be incorporated into beverages, smoothies, jams, yogurt and other dessert mixes, milkshakes, mousses and a number of dairy products. Today I prefer to do the juice…

Pomegranate juice in Syrup (Nam Tub-Tim)


Pomegranate juice is made from the fruit of the pomegranate. It is used in cooking both as a fresh juice and as a concentrated syrup.  Pomegranate juice has many health benefits.  It has shown promise in the prevention of cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and high vitamin C, A, E and  folic acid in good quantities….and much more…  Many people also enjoy its rich taste, making it a welcome beverage.

Baked Sweet Soya Bean (Kanom Bpia Sai Tua)


This Baked Sweet Soya Bean one of aromatic smell as symbolizes because scented candle. Most of new generation may never see how look like is the scented candle, later they will know after they eaten or some maybe don’t know that the smell they say is fragrant is the smell of scented candle. So they eat deliciously that sweet taste without knowing the origin of that dessert by using scented candle. Nobody has recorded during the ancient time in written of what period did the Thai dessert originated, only knows that it is a long time ago using the Thai scented dessert. This Baked Sweet Soya Bean not so much sweet...but will a just a little sweet and salty taste...great eaten with hot tea...

Ka-Thon Loy Kaew (Chilled Santol in scented Syrup)



Ka-Thon Loy Kaew or Chilled Santol in scented Syrup. Is Santol is also knows as ka-thon or wild mangosteen or sandorica. It's a tropical tree that originates in southeast Asia. Santol a Thai fruit, sour and sweet. And slightly astringent. Eat a fresh fruit compote and a spicy curry can also be made ​​in syrup. By the santol boiled in syrup Time is slowly eating with ice break.

Ingredient:
  • 3 over ripe santol fruits 
  • 1 cup Sugar 
  • 2 tbsp salt 
  • 2 cups boiled water 
Preparation:
  1. Mix salt in the boiled water and leave it for cooling down. 
  2. Peel and cut the satol fruits into small pieces, then keep them in salt water for 1 hour. 
  3. Boil the mixture of sugar and water until it is thick as a syrup, then add a little bit of salt to balance the taste. 
  4. Remove the santol from the salty water and put it in the syrup for 1 hour. 
  5. Serve the santol floating in the syrup cool (from refrigerator) or with ground ice.
  

Tropical Fruits: Santol (Ka-Thon)


Santol is also knows as katon or wild mangosteen or sandorica. It's a tropical tree that originates in southeast Asia.

Santol or Ka-Thon in Thai is native to former Indochina and the Malaysian peninsular,  cultivated in India, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, Borneo, Indonesia, the Moluccas, Philippines, Mauritius.  The fruits are round with some wrinkles extending a short distance from the base. Their diameter is 4 to 8 centimeters. The color is yellowish, pinkish to golden. The whitish fluffy rind contains a milky juice. This edible juicy pulp is sweet or sour and surrounds 3 to 5 brown seeds which are inedible.  Santol trees can be very high up to 45 meters tall.  Propagation of santol is by seeds, air-layering, inarching, or by budding onto self rootstocks.  Harvest by hand picking, or use a stick to twist the fruits off.   Fruits are usually eaten raw.  Cut the fruit in half and spoon out the pulp.  Santol seeds are inedible. 

In Thailand Ka-thon in the Northeast called the move to and bugs to North called Ma Tung and Ma to the South called Nylon Tien Sa beat drugs reflect cabinets and Sato the bar Malaya called Sand Tall is a common that Santol name.

Origin of the band Ka-thon Malaya and Southeast Asia near the equator. 2 species found in Thailand Ka-thon Forest.  Santol  and sweet .  Former Thai Ka-thon  growing  popularity of home and garden. For remove it and reap the living shadow.

Ka-thon a tree has medium to large in Burma, hundreds of leaf longevity large end pointed dark green leaves. Flower Bouquet Ka thon into.  Each flower bouquet is the little white cream Ka-thon shaped somewhat circular or round keys diameter of 10-15 cm of raw green smooth skin of ripe yellow gold Or brown, rough furrowed surface along the length of effect The texture is fluffy, white seed meat Ka-thon gather a tuft There are about 3-5 of each lobe, each lobe with 1 seed Ka-thon sweet sour  beef.  Some  sweet variety.  Some varieties sour Area adjacent to the shell can be edible Sour and astringent.  Ka-thon that results in the first year will match the cork protruding pole. This first call Ka-thon course is that when the result was 4-5 in the round key Ka-thon will not even teat shape changes. But the taste remains the same.

Ka-thon the fruit can be excellent drought tolerance.  Productive period June to September.  Every sector has grown nationwide.  Santol  grown very  Prachin Buri, Nonthaburi and Chon Buri, Phitsanulok, Surat Thani and maintenance of water should be pruning, fertilization and weeding.

Ka-thon the area of a fuzzy edible white rind and flesh torch is a popular eating fresh fruit dip with salt, pepper. Or sweet sauce. The sweet smell of cooked food such as curry several frogs Ka-thon Savings catfish curry. Ka-thon Hungley curry paste. Curry Roasted santol.  Fried Tofu Ka-thon,  Ka-thon Miang Kam, Ka-thon preserved fruit in syrup , Ka-thon crystallized jam and jelly, stir Ka-thon etc.

Ka-thon popular varieties are planted with 3 species Ka-thon soft, Krathon to be fruitful.  Round key characteristics of moderate size. Shell  surface  smooth.  White sugar stand thin sweet flesh is soft,  fluffy coat with sour thick full grain sweetened organized seed size medium Santol species down The mutation is Ka-thon from Doonghiib species.  The big key, no sphere of CO smooth surface details. When arrested more soft velvety Fluffy white meat in sweet close.  Harvesting during June Growing very Prachinburi.  E santol species hunt. The mutation is santol species from E. Wai. Why ancient people called e hunt. Because the results later than other varieties (La means slow) e-Cola is larger than the other varieties when the cortex is organized as yellow or brown shells. Meat is a very soft fluffy white. Growing very Nonthaburi and Prachin Buri E-hunting from Nonthaburi taste completely. Section from Prachinburi sour taste harvesting during June to July.

Food value and properties:
Ka-thon the fruit contains the anti Sin Dan out high Antioxidants help.  Skin cancer prevention and blood solving wind colic. Ka-thon rich meat proteins, carbohydrates, fiber iron calcium acetate Night Vitamin A Vitamin B1 and Vitamin C leaves boiling water bath sweating fever dermatology drugs off the roots using hot neutralize toxic fever. Torque solve malaria, diarrhea and low water and vinegar.  Dgoonged in help solve drinking and driving winds.