Gaybutton Posted October 18, 2006 Posted October 18, 2006 For those of you who love Thai food, do you ever wonder what the Royal family eats? It turns out that they enjoy doing a lot of their own cooking. They have written a cookbook of their favorite recipes and it is going on sale in Thailand today. The following appears in the BANGKOK POST: _____ Princess' Book Set to be a Hit SANITSUDA EKACHAI Set to be this year's bestseller is Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn's Krua Sra Pathum, a cookbook-cum-2007 diary, which will be launched today at the Book Fair, held at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre. The book contains 12 royal recipes in the Princess' own handwriting accompanied by personal notes with royal humour. The cookbook-cum-diary also features photographs of the late Princess Mother cooking as well as Princess Sirindhorn herself, in apron and tousled hair, busy in the kitchen showing readers how to prepare each dish step-by-step. Two of the recipes from the Sra Pathum Palace kitchen are those of the late Princess Mother, namely Boston Baked Beans and Boston Brown Bread, said to be among His Majesty the King's favourite dishes during his childhood. The other ten recipes are Superfish in an Ocean of Milk, Prawns in an Emerald Pond, Stir-fried Young Chillies, Poultice for a Baby's Head, Baked Spinach Balls, Wattenmeer Pumpkin Soup, Pumpkin Pie, Beehive Pancake, Pork/Meat on Sticks and Chicken Pressed on the Pan. Despite the fancy names, all recipes are easy to make and the Princess has herself tried each recipe and adjusted them to ensure the recipes' consistency. Apart from doing the cooking and tasting for the book Krua Sra Pathum, meaning Sra Pathum cuisine, the Princess also took some of the photographs herself. After the book launch, Krua Sra Pathum, priced at 299 baht a copy, will be available at all leading bookstores. The proceeds will go to the museum project in memory of Queen Savang Vadhana, the Queen Grandmother, at the Sra Pathum Palace. A prolific writer, Princess Sirindhorn's book-cum-diary last year about her dogs and other animals in the Sra Pathum Palace was also a bestseller. _____ And this, from THE NATION: _____ A Taste of Royal Recipes A 2007 diary of cooking recipes of HRH Princess Sri Nagarindra the Princess Mother and HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, will hit the shelves today. Titled, "Krua Sa Pathum" (The Kitchen of Sa Pathum Palace), it contains colourful photographs of HRH the Princess Mother and HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, while cooking in the palace - plus their own hand-written instructions for 12 recipes. Two recipes written in English by the late Princess Mother are 'Boston Baked Beans' and 'Boston Brown Bread' - both favourites of His Majesty the King as the Princess Mother cooked for the King in his early years. The other 10 recipes are written by HRH the Princess in Thai and English. The menus include 'Ya Pok Hua Dek' (spinach cheese toast), 'Massaya Kasian Samut' (baked snakehead fish soaked in milk and butter), 'Kung Bor Morakot' (freshwater giant prawn on top of seaweed grilled on hot granite rock) and 'Pad Prik On' (prawn and pork stir-fried in Chinese tea seed oil with shrimp paste). The diary is published by the Queen Savang Vadhana Foundation founded by HRH the Princess and costs Bt299. It will be launched today at the National Book Fair at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre and will soon be available in bookstores across the country. Proceeds will go towards the construction of a museum dedicated to Queen Savang Vadhana at the queen's former residence, Tamnak Yai, in Sa Pathum Palace. It was HRH Princess Sirindhorn who initiated the idea that Tamnak Yai be turned into a museum with the aim of making it a cultural-heritage site and a place to teach the younger generation about Thai history and the life of the late queen. The queen was the Princess's great-grandmother. Queen Savang Vadhana, whose life spanned six reigns, including that of HM the King, was the daughter of King Mongkut (Rama IV) and was Queen Sri Savarindhira to King Rama V. Tamnak Yai in Sa Pathum Palace was the residence of the Princess Mother and HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn currently resides there. Quote
Guest Hedda Posted October 18, 2006 Posted October 18, 2006 The cookbook-cum-diary also features photographs of the late Princess Mother cooking as well as Princess Sirindhorn herself, in apron and tousled hair, busy in the kitchen showing readers how to prepare each dish step-by-step. Eat your heart out, Julia Child. Quote
Guest mauRICE Posted October 18, 2006 Posted October 18, 2006 You're betraying your age there, Hedda dear. Wouldn't Martha have been more appropriate? Quote
Guest Hedda Posted October 18, 2006 Posted October 18, 2006 Julia Child forgot more about cooking than Martha Stewart ever learned. I thought of Julia when I saw that reference to two recipes by the late Princess Mother for 'Boston Baked Beans' and 'Boston Brown Bread' which must go back to her Boston days 70 years ago. No doubt, this latest book will sell more copies than "The Joy of Cooking," if the success of the dog biography which preceded it is any indication of the next best seller here. Quote
