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Tamales: A Culinary Adventure Close to Home

Tamales: A Culinary Adventure Close to Home

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…

Making Carrots Into Flowers

Making Carrots Into Flowers

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…

Bangkok Thai Cooking Academy-Day 22

Bangkok Thai Cooking Academy-Day 22

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.…

Bangkok Thai Cooking Academy-Day 21

Bangkok Thai Cooking Academy-Day 21

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…

Bangkok Thai Cooking Academy-Day 20

Bangkok Thai Cooking Academy-Day 20

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…

Bangkok Thai Cooking Academy-Day 19

Bangkok Thai Cooking Academy-Day 19

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…

Bangkok Thai Cooking Academy-Day 18

Bangkok Thai Cooking Academy-Day 18

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…

Bangkok Thai Cooking Academy-Day 17

Bangkok Thai Cooking Academy-Day 17

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…

Bangkok Thai Cooking Academy-Day 16

Bangkok Thai Cooking Academy-Day 16

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…

Bangkok Thai Cooking Academy-Day 15

Bangkok Thai Cooking Academy-Day 15

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…



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