05/05: Cookin' Chiangmai

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Today we booked a day cooking activity at the thai organic farm with the "giftcash" we got. Thank You! The day started bright and early at 8am (since we don't have to get up at 6am to start biking, 8am is early again). First stop was at a fresh market where our guide/cook for the day (Tommy) gave us some explanation on the used thai oils, currys, sauces & very important different types of rice! Won't go into details here, but most of it is straight forward & easy. "Easy" was a word often used by him, and after making some of the popular thai dishes we have to conclude the same. Why should something have to be hard to be good? Welcome to the thai-way ;-)

After that it was a short ride to the 'farm' where the actual cooking was going to take place. Not a real farm, more a large herbs, fruit, veggie & spice garden. Still it was a good setup for cooking & seeing/smelling/tasting the ingredients fresh from the field.

First dishes: Curry. Yellow massaman (normal curry with some extra's: Cinnamon, clove, tamarin pulp) for Ardan & Greencurry for Line. After pounding all the ingredients to a pulp in a mortar, which should be done as powerful as possible to 'break'-out all the flavours. According to tommy, a good wife should make noise from the kitchen...Line was the first of the group to get his 'good wife' label! Second: Soups. Tom Yam & Coconut milk chicken. I decided to make a well chilli'ed Tom Yam to keep it thai for real & got a thumbs up at the end from Tommy...bit too much power for Line though, she rather had the more rich coconut soup. Third: Chicken Cashew & chicken basil stir fried...throw it all in a wok, stir fry...done. Easy, right? Forth: banana in hot coconutmilk, Mango sticky rice. Use lots of coconut milk, palmsugar, always add some salt to make the sweet fuller! Mmmmm. Fifth & last: Pat Thai & spring rolls. At least now we know how to make pat thai, but we still think it's too greasy to be really tasty. It was a very fun and tasty day!

So with a very full stomach we got back late afternoon to have a nap before venturing into town for some strollng & sight seeing. Lots more of that the next days. What other activities?...we'll see...

3 opmerkingen:

  1. Grappig! Onze kokin vertelde dan weer dat je de vijzel moest gebruiken "and then think of your first night together: harder, faster, harder, faster!"
    ... Euh, yeah right, okay...
    Blijkbaar worden daar verschillende varianten als running gag gebruikt. Gr, Goele

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  2. Dat ziet er allemaal heerlijk uit! nu kunnen jullie dat thuis ook eens maken, ik kijk er al naar uit.
    Zeker the favorite of line: sticky mango rice, lijkt me wel wat. Kus, Chantal

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  3. Lijkt me hele leuke dag geweest, weerom my kind of stuff. Leuk dat het zonneke weer schijnt, verwachten hier voor morgen ook 21 graden.
    Kus knuf mams Mieke

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