Chiang Mai Thai Cooking Class

Thai Food Market
Thai cooking school
All the different types of rice at the Thai Food Market
Sticky rice with mango
Jim cooking spring rolls
Emma cooking Pad Thai
Emma, Ben and Jim at the Thai food market
Emma's Pad Thai
All the food Emma made for lunch: Yellow curry with chicken, Thai vegetable soup, and Chicken with Basil. After lunch she also made Pad Thai and sticky rice with mangos. She did a great job!!
Emma making yellow curry paste
Baby elephant on the streets in Chiang Mai

Today we completed a Thai cooking class at the Chiang Mai Thai Farm Cooking School (www.thaifarmcooking.com). We spent the morning going to the local Thai Food Market and learned about the curry pastes; the different types of rice (i.e. sticky rice versus normal rice); and all the different spices and ingredients that go into Thai cooking. Then we went out to their organic farm about 17 km from Chiang Mai. It was a beautiful setting and we learned about all the spices that are used in Thai cooking. Between Emma, Jim and I cooking we made yellow and green curry paste and dishes; Tom Yam soup; Vegetable Thai soup; Chicken with Cashew Nuts; Chicken with Basil; Spring Rolls; Pad Thai; Stir-Fry big noodles; and Sticky Rice with Mangos. My favorite foods were the Tom Yam soup, the green curry and the sticky rice with mangos. I will definitely have to try making them when we get home. We were stuffed after that day and we even brought home dogie bags with the food we couldn't eat. I highly recommend going to this cooking class if you are ever in Chiang Mai. It was a lot of fun. They even gave us a recipe book with all the recipes that we made to bring home with us.

This morning when we got up Emma needed a jacket to wear because it was a little cool so the weather is not quite so hot here as it was in Bangkok.