Learning to cook Thai!

We spent our last day in Chiang Mai at the Thai Farm Cooking School. Before we made it to the cooking school, they took us out of the city to a Thai market and showed us the fresh produce, meats, rice, chilis, etc.



The cooking school was on a farm, so we were able to tour it to see the fresh fruits, veggies and herbs.

Now, it was time to cook! We started by making curry paste (yellow for Evan, green for me). After the paste was completed, we made the curry (we both chose chicken). Then it was Tom Yam with shrimp for me and veggie soup for Evan. We both cooked stirfry in a wok. We took a break for lunch to enjoy our meals. When the teacher would give us peppers to add to the recipe, I wouldn't put them in. I did put the green pepper in the curry because she told me it wouldn't have any color otherwise and it wasn't spicy. This proves the difference in our taste buds! I didn't put the peppers in any other recipe, but it was all spicy (except the stirfry) because of their herbs. I did eat the shrimp out of the Tom Yam, but the broth was too spicy (and so was the curry). Needless to say, Evan ate everything that he cooked because he loves spice! We also tried sticky rice which was quite tasty.

Side note, at lunch another guy from our group got out a bag of fried grasshoppers that he had bought at the morning market. Evan couldn't resist passing up the opportunity to eat one. His thoughts...crunchy, not very tasty, but not that bad.





After lunch we went back in the kitchen to make dessert (banana in coconut milk for me and mango with sticky rice for Evan). Both were delicious! As we ate our desserts, we cooked our last dish, Pad Thai. This has been my favorite thai dish as they bring out the chilis separately, so you can decide how spicy you want your dish to be (I put none in my dish, Evan dumps them all in). Unfortunately, I burnt the pad thai, but that's okay as we were stuffed from lunch. I'll have to try again when we get back home.