Cooking in Chiang Mai
Trip Start
Jan 22, 2008
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Trip End
Apr 16, 2008
Chiang Mai,
Thailand
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
The cooking class was held at The Organic Farm Cooking School. It was just outside of the city on a lovely small farm. We were told that the area housed small size farms of similar size that sustained each farming family. And although each farm never produced enough to sell goods at the market, they did however swap their 'over-flow' of produce to someone in the community for a little bit of something else that they didn't have.
The class was really enjoyable. As you can see from Norm's photo we picked all of our fresh herbs from the garden
'Herb' in the Norm Garden
. We had visited the market just before we left the city to pick up our meat products and coconut milk, but most other supplies came directly from their garden. Many of the vegetables were already picked and cleaned before we arrived, which made it easier on us 'wanna-be Thai chefs', but the tour of the herb garden made up for what we otherwise might have felt we missed out on in the vegetable garden as it was, once again, very educational. It will certainly give us an edge when we return to Canada and shop in our favourite Asian grocery store as at least now we will have a better idea of what we are buying.Overall, a wonderfully filling day. We prepared a number of yummy Thai favourites all from scratch: red curry paste, green curry paste, red coconut curried chicken, green coconut curried chicken, spicy shrimp soup, coconut milk and chicken soup, chicken with cashew nuts, chicken with basil, pad Thai noodles, broad noodles, bananas in coconut milk, and sticky rice with mango. Hungry yet? As mentioned, we were stuffed. In fact, the food we cooked in the afternoon we just took away with us and ate later that night. Too much of a good thing ain't good for nobody!
Take care. With love,
Sharon and Norm
Comments
Cooking
The food sounds great. I can't wait for you to cook it for me! LD