Friday, February 10, 2012

Chiang Mai Cooking Classes


Chopping our ingredients in the outdoor kitchen


Grinding curry paste in a mortal & pestle


Preparing the wok


Shelly and our instructor, Pot


Pot preparing Shelly's ladle


Shelly (behind the flame) and Pot


Shelly working the wok, one-legged


Fish sauce


 Jeff preparing for his turn


Jeff working the wok, two-legged


Shelly excited about the coconut milk with banana


Jeff's spring rolls and sticky rice with young coconut


Shelly's papaya salad (Som Tam)


Jeff's hot and sour soup and flat noodle stir-fry


Shelly's coconut milk soup (Tom Khaa) and glass noodle stir-fry with vegetable


Our leftovers in a Thai "doggie-bag"


Late night snack

5 comments:

  1. Wow, the food looks amazing! :) Zach and I just went through your blog posts. Happy to see that you guys are safe and having fun!

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    1. Thanks! We are very excited to meet up with you two very soon in China!

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  2. Jeff, you look like Budai in that last photo.. you just need a bigger belly!

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    1. I am working on a bigger belly, but it is a hard goal to reach on noodles and rice alone. Although now that we are in Laos I will have to start drinking lots of Beer Lao, the Dom PĂ©rignon of South East Asian beers.

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  3. What kind of meat is in the "doggie bag"!!??? -
    Uncle Jay

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