Thai Feast

The cooking course we signed up in Chiang Mai was heaps of fun. As was often the case we met some really cool people. The conversations were as good as the food. The food was frightfully quick to cook (admittedly some of it was pre-chopped for us) and it tasted awesome. I’m a curry man from way back but only cook Thai curry’s once it a while. Indian’s more my game. But I had a ball cooking up Thai food all day. Part of it was that the food was just so good, part of it was that I was happy to be out and about again after being sick on my arse for 3 days and the other part of it was that I hadn’t cooked since leaving Australia and I was bursting to get back into a kitchen.

First thing we did was head down to the local market and buy the ingredients.

There were two menus, of 5 courses each, that you could choose to cook. We chose one each – that way we got to sample everything on offer

I liked Peach’s panang curry and chicken with cashew nuts best so I’ve already started hinting that she’s welcome to take on more of the cooking duties. We’ll see on that one. In fact writing this reminds me to bring her up on it.

Here’s a pics of some of the dishes. Despite the threat of bird flu breaking out every dish we cooked had chicken in it. Bird flu? What bird flu?