These stuffed green peppers have a spicy chilli centre, if hot Thai chillies are not to your tastes, you can omit it.

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It’s called a sandwich, but the sauce is soaked into the bread and you may prefer to eat this with a knife and fork. A good wholemeal bread is better for this recipe, it has to stand up to the strong cinnamon flavours in the pork filling.

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Skewered pork & green pepper (like a Kebab) but served the way we eat it at home, with a chilli and garlic sauce.

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This is a side dish that’s cheap and simple, it uses hot dog sausages together with green spring onions and chilli to spice it up. In Thailand dishes like this are called “gop-gam”, snacks served with beer at night, but it can also be served with rice to make a full meal.

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You’ve seen the sweet version of Kanom Tokyo before. There is also this savoury version in Thailand, which is a very simple dish of hotdog sausages wrapped in pancakes and served with sweet chilli sauce. After yesterdays complicated picnic box, I thought I do something a little simpler today.

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This is how we often eat hotdogs in our house. Rather than boil them in water and eat them in bread, we deep fry them and eat them with rice and spicy chilli sauce. Recipes don’t come any simpler than this.

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Another pizza with a Thai taste, you can buy a range of pizzas in the big cities now, there’s the western ones with Italian toppings, but also there are Thai ones with toppings from traditional Thai cuisine. This one is a fried pork mince and garlic pizza.

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This sausage pizza uses Thai pork sausage. A steamed sausage you make yourself from good quality pork, making this pizza completely hand made. I’ve also added a little Thai chilli paste to spice it up, you can omit this if you don’t like spicy foods.

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A very simple stir fry red pork curry with a plenty of fresh vegetables. This dish plus rice makes a complete meal of meat and vegetables.

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This dish is a spicy Thai curry softened with coconut milk. Do not omit the coconut milk it is essential to the dish, but the vegetables can be interchanged with western vegetables. If you can’t get the green aubergine, use a suitable green frying vegetable rather than purple kind. The curry is ready mixed paste commonly used in Thailand, you can get this from an Asian grocer.

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