Welcome to Susie’s Kitchen
This collection of authentic Thai recipes is organized the way my mother cooked — not by technique or occasion, but by the heart of the dish. Browse Street Food for the bold, flame-kissed flavors she chased from roadside carts. Explore Rice Dishes and Noodle Dishes, the everyday staples that fed our family across two countries. Warm yourself with Curry & Soup, built from whatever the kitchen held. Watch everything come together fast in Stir Fry, or start from the ground up with Thai Essentials — the pastes and stocks behind every dish. And if you want to see where tradition meets the life she built in America, Thai Fusion is where her roots became my branches. Every category is a chapter. Every recipe is a memory.
Her Hands
My mother carried these recipes across an ocean in her hands. No cookbook. No notes. Just memory and instinct and forty years of knowing. I watched her my whole life. Now I am the one who remembers. These are hers. Written down at last.
Street Food
The best food in Thailand was never in a restaurant. It was on the back of a scooter, at the side of a road, in the hands of a woman who had been making it the same way for forty years. No menu. No price list. Just a cart, a flame, and something that smelled like everything you had ever been hungry for. I am still chasing that smell.
Noodle Dishes
Noodles were her comfort food and mine. Some of the most beloved authentic Thai recipes are noodle dishes. She made them in Thailand, she made them in Maryland, she made them in every kitchen she ever stood in. Same bowl. Different country. Same feeling. I am making them now too.
Rice Dishes
She measured rice by feel, never by cup. Her hand knew exactly how much, a scoop, a level, a rinse. No measuring cup ever touched that pot. I watched her do it a thousand times and never thought to write it down. I am still learning that hand. I think I always will be.
Stir Fry
Everything goes into the wok fast and comes out perfect. That was her way. She never hesitated, never second guessed, never looked at a timer. Just heat and instinct and thirty years of knowing exactly what she was doing.
Curry & Soup
She could make a curry from whatever was in the kitchen and it always tasted like home. I never understood how until I started making them myself. Now I think I am beginning to.
Thai Essentials
Before the curry there is the paste. Before the soup there is the stock. My mother built every one of these authentic Thai recipes from the ground up, from scratch, from memory. These are the foundations she never wrote down. The things you need before you need anything else.
Thai Fusion
She taught me the foundations. What I do with them is mine. These are the dishes that happen when forty years of Thai cooking meets a life lived in America. Her roots. My branches.
