Elvis in a kitchen - is this some kind of trick photography you ask? No, it's real, this year Elvis has really gone for Thai food BIG style. Lots of things that were off the menu in 2007 are firm favourites - so we both went back to school to see what it's all about! Of course I've been before and could really have stepped in and took the class - but nobody likes a big head now do they!
This is me showing the 'instructor' how to make coconut cream. Well - not really, the instructor, Yaa, had a canny little sense of humour so we ended up having a bit fun with each other. She then started to pick on me and gave me all the hard jobs, like scraping coconut out of the shell to make the cream.
Always taste your food! Top tip from Yaa. In this picture you can see Yaa, she's saying to Elvis 'I said taste it not eat the whole bloody lot'. Thai food has to balance three things:- Salt, Spice and Sourness. Salt, mainly from fish sauce or/and soy sauce, spice from yer chillies and sourness from lime juice and tamarind. See we're experts already. We're hoping to recreate some of these dishes when we get home, something tells me though it won't quite taste the same!!
This is the famous noodle dish in Thailand called Pad Thai - we've ate this so many times we will look like noodles !
What's impressive with Thai cooking is the amount of fresh ingredients. Most of the vegetables are just variations of ones we are familiar with at home, but they do have some we don't get - like Thai egg plants which are about the size of a golf ball.
After a hard day cooking, there's nothing better than sitting over the river with the fruits of your labour! On the table are three curries (red, green and massaman), pad thai, chicken with cashew nuts, and a few side dishes - now how did we do it again!!!
For a whole COT voucher can you tell us what the special kind of ginger root that Thai's use a lot in their cooking, rumour has it you can also make a canny cup of tea with it, but being English we know that tea can only possibly be made using little paper bags that you buy in the thousands from git big supermarkets.
COT voucher stuff - Ginny was first on the blog and straight in with correct answer. She then spoilt herself by demanding vouchers for previous posts, but I've put her right on her ways!!
Come on Jenny, Andy, Rust and Shirley you need six vouchers at least. Milly you only need another five.
5 comments:
I'd have a guess at Galangal Root for the COT, sorry Voucher question.
However, I sense a flaw in the Blog this year. I need 6 vouchers for a COT. With only 4 days before returning home (sorry to remind you guys) that's quite a high voucher question to Blog ratio.
I reckon it's a cunning plan to avoid making a cup of tea for anyone, it's 'as cunning as a fox what used to be Professor of Cunning at Oxford University but has moved on, and is now working for the UN at the High Commission of International Cunning Planning'. Still, I'd be happy to accept some Thai food instead.
I think it's a little cheeky of Keith to imply that Suzanne is rarely in the kitchen - she's in there more than he lets on. Note that Keith has been to the Thai cooking class twice now! Similarly claiming that he takes all those lovely photos. We all know it's the camera that does all the work and Suzanne that has the artistic eye ;-)
now paul dont worry as i,am in charge of the house while they,re away,ive rooted round and found the said tea bags so all is well.x milly
So Rusty, are you suggesting that we all boycott this COT malarkey seeing as it's all a set up this time?
I've tried to acquire multiple vouchers at one sitting,(don't you think writing lyrics to songs should count for something extra?) but it's not on. I'm predicting that there will be 4 blogs in all - how do you get 6 vouchers out of that?
I've also seen Suzanne in the kitchen - it's where the glasses are when you're on your way to their liquor supply.
Hey Ann, you and I were writing at the same time! It's only because England is 5 hours ahead of the US that yours was posted first. ;)
Sabotage those tea bags!
we're not that interested in the COT questions this year , because we copied the keys before we dropped them off at the billys and helped ourselves to lots of wine and beer from the cellar mmmmmmmmm
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