Thread: Hot Weather, No Cook Meal

It's forty degrees in my upstairs office. My eyes are bleary from too much code work. I'm hungry. I don't really wanna eat if I have to cook. 'Bout 17:00 Hrs I thought of way to gets some cool calories in my body, jumped on the motor bike and headed up to the local market in the MooBaan.
I bought some stuff:


There's one of those roast "ha daow" (five star) chickens up in there somewhere, sweet basil, a coriander leaf and green onion set, limes, tomatoes, a cucumber, yellow onions a half green pepper and some chilies. Not pictured is a bunch more chilies, a second lime and the fish sauce (y'all know what fish sauce bottle look like right?) and a few blubs of Gratiem Ton, gratiem ton is a wonderful garlic. I've gotten so it's all I use, easier to smash, peel and seems to melt away when cooked, usewhatever you like. the pepper was in my fridge, the chilies from my backyard everything else came from the market up the street.

I sliced the tomato, bell pepper, and onion into think slivers and the cucumber into thin slices:


I then smashed the green onions and sliced them about an inch long or so, and smashed the hell out of the garlic ans chopped it till is was mush. I pulled the whole leaves from the basil stems and tossed it all in that bowl, justvisible back there.

Pulled the meat for the bird and hand shredded it after it had cooled a bit, dropped that on top and added a good healthy pinch or three of fresh cracked black pepper.

Onto that I poured a 2:1 mixture of Lime juice (two large limes) to fish sauce; gave it a quick toss:


Served on a bed of iceberg lettuce with a side of sticky rice; refreshing, delicious:


Wasn't no company comin' tonight. If there was, I might've had mixed leafy-type greens to serve it on and reserved half the tomatoes to arrange on the mixed leafy lettuces then served the salad over that. probably would have either shredded some carrot or picked up a yellow and red bell pepper for color and added sweetness. As it was this was just fine. Simple, easy and quick.

This is equally good with lean beef, grilled medium - medium rare or grilled pork or prawns. The salad should be spicy (thus the un-pictured extra chilies, one should should always have a Thai chili plant close by the kitchen).

Oh. yeah, just before tossing I sliced up the skin to toss in the bowl. This, picked out the bowl and wrapped around a small ball of sticky rice served as an appetizer for the ol' lady and I; never made it to our plates.

Please excuse the over-exposed shots, folks. Bought my first dSLR this last weekend and I'm tyin' to get used to it. But that's another thread.