So lately we've been trying to move, but of course I want to know that I have some great thai food around...we ended up finding this american/thai nursery in New Braunfels that sells kaffir lime plants as well as lemongrass. The owner gave us this awesome tip on a thai restaurant in Schertz (right outside of San Antonio). Something about the name Thai Spice for restaurants not in Houston....this place is fabulous, we ate there two days in a row. Ordered deep fried red snapper covered in a ginger chili sauce, tod mun pla, tom yum goong, som tum, and beef panang...yum! I have never tried to make my own panang curry paste....but none of the pre-made pastes compare(of course)...and we live in a townhome which leaves us nowhere to deep fry whole fish without smelling it for a week, so the fish dish is a treat for us. This place as well as the restaurant by the same name in Corpus Christi blow the thai joints in Houston out of the water.
For anyone who likes malaysian beef rendang making it from scratch is definitely worth the time. It's very simple to make the paste, I used serrano peppers, onion, ginger, garlic, kaffir lime....then separately I ground some fennel, coriander, nutmeg, and toasted coconut. Do a search for a recipe and you will come up with many good ones, mine is sort of a combination of many. As always....pics to come.
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