Thai Cooking Class!

At the local produce market.

The rest of Saturday: a Thai cooking class.  We were all picked up at our hotels then we were taken to a local produce market to look around and learn about the local produce we would be using.

Snooky teaching us about the produce and spices we would use.  And
some shortcuts!

 Then off to the cooking school.  It was a GREAT class!  Our teacher, Snooky, was a hoot!  There were folks from Great Britain, South Africa, Ireland and one other American. We got to choose our appetizer, soup, curry paste and main dish that we wanted to cook.

The wash stations at the cooking school.  Aren't they awesome?

Our cooking stations for 10 students.

 The class is very well run.  The prep area and the cooking stations are set up very well.

Our prep area.

Snooky showing off his example.

My first creations: cashew chicken and shrimp sweet and sour soup.

And afterwards, we got to eat everything we made!  

And it was all SCRUMPTIOUS!! 

 And at the end we were given a recipe book with all the recipes in it.  Definitely an excellent way to spend the afternoon/evening!

Snooky explaining about steaming rice (the woven basket is the rice steamer!)
and sticky rice.  

Cooking at stations.

Fresh spring rolls, egg roll, mango sticky rice and Chiang Mai noodles
made with Khao soy paste.

Decided to take a tuk tuk back to the hotel.

Great day.  More tomorrow!