Thai Cooking with Sunshine: Simple, Delicious Recipes That You Can Make at Home

I just received the 2 copies I ordered. One for me, and one for my foodie niece.WOW! What a gorgeous book. I have not yet dug into the recipes, but am enjoying and taking inspiration from all the beautiful photos, both of the food, and also of California... Also enjoyed reading about the author's journey to her love of cooking and teaching cooking.I recently moved after more than 40 yrs in the Bay Area, so am eager to create the delicious Thai food that I cannot get here in Maine, and since Thai ingredients are not readily available in local markets, I love that Ranida includes information for online shopping for the authentic Thai ingredients.

Pre-pandemic, I never bought a single cookbook. I always ate out because cooking has always seemed like too much work and takes up too much time. Once the pandemic hit, I knew that I needed to learn how to cook. I dragged my feet for months, but decided on getting this book by recommendation from a friend. Best decision ever.I bought exactly the list of sauces that is so clearly laid out in this cookbook and followed everything to the T. Most recipes are incredibly simple and all of them are easy to follow. I make the Pad Thai almost every week and it gets better every time. Even the first time though was great! That's when you know the book is dummy proof.After purchasing the book, I even brought my entire company to a cooking class taught by Sunshine in SF. It was a fantastic team building event. Everyone had a ton of fun. Most said it was the best team outing they had ever gone to. Sunshine is a unique personality that just lights up the room and it shines through in the cookbook.If you can, definitely try to attend a Sunshine cooking class. You won't regret it. If you can't, then next best thing is to buy the book!

This is an amazing cooking book that captures Sunshine's decades long experiences teaching Thai cooking in San Francisco. Even as someone who does not like spending hours in the kitchen, I appreciate that every recipe in the cookbook is 10 steps or less. From start to finish, most recipes take no longer than 30 minutes.It may be intimidating to get started because it's often difficult to figure out what tools you will need and where to get them. The book provides insight into the fundamental building blocks of Thai cooking which include explanations about the herbs, sauces, equipment, and history of the primary ingredients. As part of the book, she provides QR codes linking to California supermarkets where you can get all the ingredients and equipment in one place.Sunshine sprinkles her life experiences teaching cooking, methods for procuring the best ingredients, and mouthwatering images of the completed dishes throughout the book. Personally, I am excited to eat more of the Red Pumpkin Curry I made with the help from her cookbook.

The cookbook is a great way to learn how to cook authentic Thai food with ingredients available in the US in a low pressure, easy way. I have taken one of Sunshine’s online cooking class before, and the food in the cookbook tastes as good as from the class.I have only made two dishes - the green curry salmon and the massamun curry - both which are my some of my favorite Thai dishes. I appreciate that the recipes are super short and easy to follow. I do recommend you read the ingredient list and the recipes before grocery shopping to make sure you get everything. And you can adjust the sweet/salty/spicy/sour to taste, as done in Thailand.Looking forward to cooking the rest of the cookbook and learning to cook Thai food!

I love her cookbook. The food looks so delicious. I was drooling reading the recipes. I need to get all the seasonings that she recommended to start my Thai cooking journey. There’s one thing that I agree with her completely that people have different palates. Learning the fundamentals of cooking, seasoning and flavors then adjust them to fit your taste is the ultimate goal of cooking.

I have taken Sunshine’s classes in San Francisco at least 5 times and every dish we have made has been incredible! I just got this cookbook delivered and looking through it, I can tell these dishes will be amazing too! There are three things in particular I love: 1) Sunshine shares photos of the sauces and seasonings to buy from your local Asian market (or Amazon) and this makes all of the taste difference! 2) her Thai gyoza recipe in the book is one I’ve made in class and is by far one of my all time favorite things to make at home now and 3) I never realized making mango sticky rice at home could be so easy and delicious!I highly recommend buying Sunshine’s cookbook (and also taking a class with her when you visit San Francisco!)

I like the food. Its very delicious. Recipes easy to understand and very helpful with describing the ingredients and where to find them. Colorful pictures and very good read.

After following her food on FB and Instagram. I immediately got this book from Amazon. This book has its content differs from other Thais cooking books in the market. It can show you all the details of ingredients and how to cook Thais food that you can learn and turn your dish to Thais authentic test!! (I'm Thais, trust me). This book is super easy to understand and follow. The price is reasonable.Can't wait to cook other dishes from this book!!

Inspired by her story; very easy and simple step to make delicious Thai food.

I love the book!Love the pictures! Very colorful!I love that you put the seasoning bottle pictures too! I was always wondering which seasoning to buy.写真が沢山載っていて、とても素敵な本です。人気のタイ料理のレシピも沢山載っていて、手順もわかりやすいです。おすすめのタイの調味料なども載っていて、とても参考になります！全て英語です。

Great pictures and easy-to-follow recipes cover the most popular Thai cuisines. The book also covers recipes for Thai curry paste which is for people who want to cook from scratch.