The Giggling Squid Cookbook: Tantalising Thai Dishes to Enjoy Together

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Or if you’re a culinary adventurer and keen to add new dishes to your cooking repertoire, you might be drawn to our Light Meals section which offers delicate Thai rice soups and noodle broths such as Khao Tom with Spicy Prawns and Kuay Jab (rolled rice noodles in five- spice broth) and Thai omelettes (cooked the Thai way and every bit as delicious as the western version). Not forgetting the pleasure of rounding off a meal with a treat from our Something Sweet dessert section where you’ll find a choice of traditional Thai desserts and ice-creams with tropical flavours. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Recipes are introduced by Pranee who opened the first Giggling Squid with her husband Andy in their small fishmen’s cottage in Brighton 20 year ago. Thai cooking is famously rich and complex in flavour and – as our own Giggling recipes reflect – crammed with a huge variety of vegetables, herbs and spices that many people might be unfamiliar with in the UK.

Octopi have been shown to use tools, cuttlefish can camouflage in an instant and squid giggle if you give them ten-tickles (I’m very, very sorry). At best it can be a peek behind the curtain, a thrilling glimpse into the kitchen sorcery that goes into your favourite dishes.With that same spirit comes this cookbook offering modern dishes with traditional flavors for an unforgettable culinary experience in your own home. There are vegetarian and vegan recipes throughout and delightfully sticky deserts with sweet,fruity Thai flavours. These found their way onto our menu by popular demand as we used to only offer them as canapés at opening parties for new restaurants. Thai tapas starters: star signature dishes Golden Money Bags, Sweet Jicama Salad, Candy Pork with Pineapple and Grilled Squid with Garlic. A cashew nut stir-fry and coconut rice that’s all the best sweet and spicy bits of Thai cuisine (but I believe owes a debt to The Wok for my improved stir-frying); Lamb Shank Massaman are three words that just can’t fail; and their more unique dishes like Chubby Pork Cheek Stew or butternut squash hollowed out and stuffed with vegetable curry are all decent fodder.

If so, The Giggling Squid Cookbook is the perfect tool to help bring you a taste of real Thai mealtime buzz right into your own home. In celebration of the Coronation, our chefs created a Coronation Special fit for a King with a Royal Thai Tea and it proved so popular that some of our Giggling restaurants have decided to continue offering it. With a little tweaking and a lot of lemon juice (not in the recipe) I managed to balance out the sweetness and really enjoyed the curry in the end.

There’s something so immediately satisfying and a little theatrical about eating with your hands and these little nests are best enjoyed without cutlery. The heat is on but our summer specials are crammed with light, summery ingredients to leave you feeling satisfied without raising a sweat! If you’re a Giggling Squid ultra or this is your first introduction to Thai cooking, you’ll probably get a lot from this. We introduced these on a special menu to celebrate Veganuary and they proved so popular we couldn’t part with them.