Before we left on our world tour I had heard from several folks "don't ride in a tuk tuk in thailand"...but at 9:16 this morning that is exactly where Sean and I found ourselves. However the ride was not scary, I don't think the Tuk Tuk ever went faster than I could ride my bike. The driver took us into town where we caught a van out to our cooking school. We started the day by learning the thai methods of vegetable carvings. That's right ladies and gentlemen, that's a carrot shapped like a leaf, tomato peel rose, a tomato lotus flower, and two tomato sauce cups. Please plan on seeing some very creativly carved sweet potatoes this year at Thanksgiving.
We then made spring rolls and got to use our sauce cups:
Our lessons were taught by the thai equivilant of Emerill, complete with his own tv show. Here is Sean at his work station:
And us enjoying our red curry duck and ginger chicken:
The gardens surrounding the cooking school are lovely, here is an unusual flower we found there:
We arrived back to our room in the afternoon and were so stuffed that we didn't even need dinner!
2 comments:
the food there is amazing, isnt it? we took hte lessons - twice actually on our two trips to thailand. and the food we cooked in country was great. we tried when we got home...it was....pretty good. would love to see how you make out. enjoy thailand!
We are looking forward to your cooking. I would not have thought to take a cooking class, but it looks like the right thing to do. We may start some new culinary traditions around the holidays!
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