My Favourite Thai Resturant in Brisbane: Kinn Thai

About two weeks ago now, I had dinner at my family’s favourite Thai restaurant in Brisbane.

 Kinn Thai has to be one of the best Thai restaurants I have ever been to! Their menu puts a very unique and almost modern day spin on traditional Thai dishes.  It even offers Southern Fried Chicken!  The assortment of flavors in each of their dishes is nothing short of scrumptious.  It is Thai cuisine done to absolute perfection!

We ordered a few of our favourites including, Sizzling Beef, Green Curry, Soft Shell Crab, Chicken Fried Rice and Cashew Chicken. We also tired the Sa-li Salad which included Chinese pear, fried fish, mint, coriander, bean sprouts with a chilli tamarind sauce; SO good (I think the pictures speak for themselves)! This restaurant does a really great range of Thai salads, which is something I don’t see often when eating at Thai restaurants. A few of my family members ordered Thai Ice Tea, which brought back so many memories from Singapore as it tasted practically identical to their iconic Ice Lemon Tea. It is definitely hard to find good Ice Tea in Australia. 

As we were celebrating my mum and one of my brother’s birthdays, we couldn’t possibly turn down dessert! I ordered an amazing dish including sticky rice, Thai fruits and the most AMAZING coconut ice cream. Seriously, I could have eaten this dessert forever, it was super delicious.  One of my brothers ordered a Chocolate Lava Cake and the other ordered a Thai style French toast that came with butterscotch sauce.

The food was definite hit for everyone. Kinn has a really great, cozy, comfortable atmosphere, which makes it easy to have an enjoyable time. I always feel like it’s hard to fault a restaurant when they deliver your food within 10-15minutes, and this is definitely part of the reason I keep coming back to this restaurant.  The menu offers a great selection of dishes for both adults and children. It is also pretty reasonably priced, where the average dish will set you back around $19.  I highly recommend making a reservation beforehand as it is always incredibly busy and sometimes waiting for a table can take around 30 minutes. If you’re in the Mt Gravatt area you should definitely consider stopping by Kinn, where an exotic Thai feast awaits!

Kaylah Cooks #3: Paleo Bluberry Scones (gluten free and dairy free)

Hi everyone! This week I have a recipe for you.  I actually cook all the time, but I always forget to blog about it. This is something I really want to work on!

This week I cooked something that has definitely stood out compared to the desserts I have cooked in the past. With this in mind, I felt the need to share this recipe with you!

I have recently changed my diet to become gluten free due to health reasons and have therefore been looking everywhere for easy and delicious recipes to take the place of my old ones which are full of gluten! I was invited over to a friends house the other night and wanted to bring something with me. She also is gluten free but differs to me in that she can’t eat dairy either. I scoured the Internet looking for the ultimate recipe and came upon this one. Cassy Joy Garcia who is behind the blog fed+fit created this recipe and it is to die for! It is definitely a MUCH healthier alternative to the usual cakes I would bake. Though honestly, I reckon this dessert taste infinitely better than what I have made in the past.  This recipe is Paleo as well!

Without further ado here is the recipe:

Ingredients:

• 1 ½ cups Cashews (ground)
•   ¼ cup Arrowroot flour (you can find this at your local health food store)
• 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
• 1 cup Fresh Blueberries
• 1/4cup Coconut Oil
•  3 tablespoons Maple Syrup
• 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
•  1 egg

Method:

1.     Preheat your oven to 180 degrees Celsius and line your cake tin with baking paper.

2.     Blend cashews in a food processor until powdered.

3.     Whisk all the dry ingredients together then stir in the blueberries.

4.     Whisk the wet ingredients together then stir into the dry ingredients.

5.     Pour the mixture into the baking pan and bake at 180 degrees Celsius for approximately 30 minutes (the great thing about this recipe is there is no need to knead your dough!!).

6.     You can either leave the scones to cool or enjoy them warm like I did (I definitely think it tastes so much nicer that way). Enjoy!

Side note: Don’t be alarmed if your scones don’t come out of the oven with the consistency of a typical scone. Mine came out incredibly moist and fluffy and I was not at all complaining! I definitely think the different ingredients and cooking method contribute to the different texture and consistency of these scones.  

This recipe has become my favourite gluten free dessert that I have tried so far. I really and truly recommend you to try it out!

Other recipes:

Kaylah Cooks #1: Lemon and Coconut Slice

Kaylah Cooks #2: The Perfect Tiramisu

Kaylah Cooks #4: Best Ever Melting Moments