My colleague JM just left for Thailand, which makes me terribly nostalgic for my trip there last year. Here’s a photo of me (at the Grand Palace in my dapper hat and linen pants) that hadn’t made it up to the blog.
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yesterday, ron, julie and i cooked this awesome thai dinner based on the class i took in bangkok.
on the left:
- lonely shrimp, squid and corn cake awaiting sauce
- killer homemade pineapple sauce (this is just the best sweet/sour/spicy dipping sauce ever)
- “green” jasmine rice with peas, cilantro, scallions and cashews
- stir-fried dandelion greens
on the right:
- panang curry with chicken - so yummy! - made with from-scratch thai red curry paste (and boy is my arm tired)
recipes available upon request.
what’s the dark secret?
there is no god and everyone dies alone - but minty fresh!
i shot this on my first full day in thailand, at a swank supermarket in a chic bangkok mall.
crispy rice cakes with chicken-peanut sauce (kao tung na tang), from the cafe at the jim thompson house. yum. note the koi pond in the background.
the watermelon/ice/sugar/salt drink was heavenly too.
brunch for three, before a busy morning/afternoon at the chatuchak weekend market, pretty much the world’s biggest flea market.
see sean cook
today’s highlight: a half-day cooking class for traditional thai food.
admittedly, it wasn’t pretty. my knife skills are a little…rough.
but the end result was fantastic.
i made all this (dessert not shown), and it was good.
