We had an awesome experience last night! One of the touristy things to do in Thailand is to take cooking classes and learn some typical Thai dishes. Since we love to cook, and we've tried our hand at Thai cuisine once or twice at home, we naturally wanted to do this. But since the classes tend to be really expensive, we put it on the back burner (no pun intended).
Well, out of the blue, one of our fellow English teachers at school said that she had met a lady at the market who was starting up a cooking school and wanted to take pictures of foreigners doing her class for marketing purposes. So she invited us to take the classes for free with a few of our fellow teachers!!
She had a beautiful couch with an outside kitchen on a large deck. She had a big garden where she grew most of the ingredients that we cooked with. We learned to make some of the Thai classics: fried egg rolls, tum yum kung soup (spicy soup with shrimp, really delicious), fish cakes, green curry (my favorite), and of course, phad thai.
Some spices that we used:
Dana cooking the egg roll ingredients:
The prep table. Everyone except the couple at the back is a teacher at our school.
John quickly established himself as the chef of the group and the chopping master. Our teacher told him to chop the green beans finely, so he started showing off a little. She looked at him, smiled, said, "You call that fine?!" and started chopping as well. :) So here is a picture of their competition. She was a fun, sweet lady.
Our green curry:
Although this looks like a block of cheese, it is actually coconut sugar, the secret ingredient in a lot of Thai dishes:
The class ended up taking 5 hours. We were very tired by the end of it, but we had a lot of fun, and a ton of food!!
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