Thai fish cakes with Thai dipping sauce

Thai dipping sauce
100g sugar
125ml water
60ml white vinegar
1tbsp fish sauce
1 red chilli chopped
¼ cucumber seeded and finely chopped
¼ small carrot finely chopped

1. bring all ingredients to boil
2. simmer uncovered for 5 mins, or until slightly thickened
3. remove from heat, cool slightly
4. stir in cucumber and carrot

Thai fish cakes
450g firm white fish fillets, flaked
3tbsp cornflour
1tbsp fish sauce
1egg, beaten
½ cup fresh coriander leaves
3tsp red curry paste
50g green beans, very finely sliced
2 spring onions, finely chopped
½cup oil

1. Place fish in large bowl, add corn flour, fish sauce, egg, coriander, curry paste and chilli. Mix well until well combined
2. Add the beans and spring onion and mix well. Using wet hands, form 2 rounded table spoons of mixture at a time into fairly flat patties
3. Heat the oil in heavy based frying pan over medium heat. Cook 4 fish cakes at a time until they are golden brown on both sides. Drain on paper towels and serve immediately with Thai dipping sauce.

Garlic Prawn with Chilli and Basil Pasta

So somewhere along the line i picked up this recipe... can't remember from who or from where or how it should be done, but this is how I cooked it this night and it turned out pretty darn tasty.

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Ingredients:

• 250g of whatever pasta you want
• Some prawns how much you choose
  
• Half a garlic (4 or 5 cloves) peeled. squashed and roughly chopped
  
• 10g of basil chopped finely
• 1 or 2 hot chillies finely chopped as well
• 1 tablespoon or butter
• and some olive oil
  
• few drops of white truffle oil

Instructions:

1. Cook the pasta until al dente then drain into a colander.
2. Put a bit of olive oil into a pan on high heat, add the garlic and fry
3. Add the prawns and fry until half cooked and add the butter, half the basil and the chilli and cook over medium heat
   
4. When prawns look cooked add the pasta and stir through on low heat
   
5. Add the remaining basil, a sprinkle of extra virgin oil and the truffle oil
6. Turn off the heat and mix the pasta through thoroughly
7. Serve with a sprinkle of parmesan cheese.
   

Serves about 2 and takes about 10 mins to prep and 30 mins to cook