Cooking School

Sorry I haven’t blogged in a while in fact a really long while but I have been trying to blog ever since I got to Thailand but I just haven’t gotten the time. Anyway today I had to get up sort of early to get to cooking school because it started at 8:00 AM but since I am not all the way on Thai time I got up at 7:30. So I got up watched some TV then we went down for breakfast I just had some bacon and mini pancakes then we were of on the bus/van of to pick up the other people that singed up for it also. After everyone came then we went to the market (even though we were doing the country cooking not the city cooking) and our instructor showed us stuff like the differences in rices and things like that. After looking around the market for a little while we went on our way to the farm. When we got there I thought it would be some little farm just outside of the city but it was a huge farm way away from the city, it was so far from the city it took us about twenty minuets to get there but I not really sure. And when we got there The instructor showed us some plants like egg plant and two different kinds of lime and a bunch of other plants I never heard of. Then we started our first dish, mine was Pad Thai and moms was Pad See Uw. To make Pad Thai is a lot faster than I though it would be. All you have to do is dice some garlic and get some bean sprouts/carrots and chicken then you fry everything but the noodles for about 120 seconds then you add the noodles with a bit of water and cook those until the noodles are wet. Then you mix it together and you have Pad Thai. I’m not sure how to make Pad See Uw but mom does and at the end of class we got a little cookbook that tells you how to make these things. After that I made spring rolls you just roll tofu, glass noodle, and some other veggies then fry then for about 10 seconds. my first one fell apart in the oil but my second one worked better. After that I made some Panang Curry. It takes a bit longer if you make your own curry paste, that’s what we did (did you know that to make Panang all you have to do is add peanuts to red curry). But we didn’t eat the curry instead we put it on the table then made Tom Yum soup and Mango Sticky Rice. After everything was made we ate it all for lunch. Then we said by to the farm then rode the van back to our hotel. When we got back we went and got dinner in the market and dad had to go to the tailor. After that we came back watched a little bit of TV then went to bed.