Cooking (Lots of pictures)

One month later... Not all the pics are here, but I'm posting it anyway.

So I've gone on and on about the food. ... The food that WE made.

Wow, was it ever good.

The school picked us up at the hotel. There were already two riders and we went on to pick up a few more. One of my favorite parts of travelling is meeting people and finding out thier stories. There were lots of them. Unfortunately for them, this blog is not about them...

It started with a trip to the market. This was really cool. There were obviously a lot of other schools there, but it was also obviously where the locals shop.

Once we got to the school, we took off our shoes and sat down at low tables and got a few introductions and instructions. We were told to put our names on name tags, but not take them off. When we got our name tags back, the teacher had written our names in Thai. That was pretty cool. A fellow student, Jay found out his name means "vegetarian" in Thai.

We were divided into groups, according to what we had already said we'd like to make. We went to tables where all the materials were laid out for us. All ingredients perfectly measured, all the right utencils. It was great.

First up, Pad Thai:

Then I think we made spring rolls. We made them, but didn't eat them yet.

Then to the soup. One of my fav's.

We were allowed to eat the soup and spring rolls together.

My favorite was the green curry. First we made paste and then the curry.

I still dream about it.

Finally we got to stir FRY some chicken and cashews. Not my favorite, but fun to make.