Thai Cooking Class

After Cambodia a group of us headed down to Phuket, Thailand. Phuket is very different from Cambodia. Phuket is an island province located in the south part of Thailand. The island is basically covered with resorts. It was a wonderful end to our vacation. We got to relax in paradise. The first day that we were in Thailand we had a Thai cooking class that we had scheduled. The class was really cool, we learned how to cook a few different Thai dishes. The location of the school was amazing. It was located right on the beach in a cove.The first thing that we did was make curry from scratch. It consisted of grinding up seeds and peppers and other ingredients with a mortar and pestle. It was cool to see all the ingredients eventually end up as a curry paste. So with each recipe that we cooked, the teacher would show us how to make it, than we would get the opportunity to cook for ourselves. We made lots of tasty dishes. Coconut with chicken soup, spring rolls, a seafood salad, paneang curry, sweet and sour vegetables and pumpkin in coconut milk. One of the best parts of the cooking class was that we got to eat what we cooked. It was a fun little place to take a cooking class and I learned a few things. We'll just have to see if I can find some of the ingredients here in the states so that I can make the recipes again.