Enjoying life with family & friends through food
This post has been a long time coming. Around the 4th of July this year I had a wonderful opportunity to experience making authentic tamales with my sisters friend and co-worker, Monica. My sister was telling me of her weekend plans of friends getting together…
When I was cooking in one of my classes in Thailand one of the Chef’s taught me how to make flowers out of carrots. It was so simple and fun. It’s like arts and crafts with your food! You can use the same simple technique…
My current journey is at it’s end. Yes, I’m done! Six weeks of class all condensed into 22 days of instruction! You can call me Chef now 🙂 . I earned my Master Thai Culinary Chef Diploma! Yesterday (Saturday) was my last day of class.…
One more day left. I can’t believe how quick this has gone. I don’t want to finish :). There were no new ingredients I worked with today. Does that mean I’ve learned it all? Probably not, but I have learned a lot. My work area…
Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a safe one. I was ready to go back and cook today after two days off! Only two more days left. It’s kind of a bitter sweet thought. I’m excited to go back home and see…
Happy Monday. Hope you all had a wonderful weekend. I made a few things today that I’ve been waiting to see how it’s done here. Just fyi, won’t have class tomorrow and the next day for the new year so will get back to you…
Hi All, I am about 12 hours late posting this days yummy dishes…had a few distractions last night, like a Thai massage and my friends took me out to eat at a Greek restaurant, for a change of pace, and then dancing. Was a FUN…
Day 17 today. A lot of good and refreshing dishes. Made the last type of curry today, panang. It was good, but I still like the yellow curry we made the best and than the massaman curry second best. The difference with the panang was…
Hi All! Another wonderful day of cooking with Chef Ratch. Most of the dishes today had that healthier feel to them, in taste and in presentation, as you will see. My partial stations today: Today I made: This was one of these days where Everything…
Merry Christmas to those that believe! I hope everyone is having a good holiday season. Thailand officially doesn’t celebrate Christmas with the day off so I had cooking school today…which is great because that is what I am here for! Today I learned to make…
