With our family’s love of Thai food we obviously had to do a cooking class – and one that included a green curry (the kids’ fave). So, we booked ourselves in to make:

• Tom yum (prawn or chicken),
• Pad see ew,
• Green curry chicken, and
• Mango sticky rice.

We ate each course as we went, which I was very relived about because with this afternoon class we’d deliberately not had lunch! <insert gif of Homer’s stomach rumbling here>

Tom yum was up first with its sour spiciness. We chopped up the ingredients which included these cute button mushrooms (much to M’s delight – we donated ours to him) and into a hot pan they go! In a few minutes, it was ready to eat!

Second course of pad see ew, which is basically wide rice noodles with soy sauce, one of my personal faves – at least in Australia. In Thailand I often found it a bit bland. (I know that sounds crazy in Thailand of all places but that was my experience!) This one we made was one of the nicer ones but I think I prefer the Aussie version. Note the cute little chicken egg cups 🐔

And now, for the moment the kids had been waiting for 🥁🥁🥁 chicken green curry! First, we made the paste, which brings out the smell of the spices as you get any anger issues out:

We combined the paste with the other ingredients in a pan. After cooking it for a few minutes, it’s done! (Yes, it’s totally that easy 😜)

It was very nice, but the pea eggplants (those little green balls) were a bit bitter for our taste 😖

The final dish was the mango sticky rice, a traditional Thai dessert. We dyed coconut milk for the rice with beetroot, so that’s how it’s pink – but not so much that it tasted like beetroot. Then we were to finely slice a mango and arrange it into a rose…depending on the ripeness of your mango, it can be difficult!

Of course, by then we were totally stuffed, so we didn’t eat much of that one. Luckily it was not something any of us were too keen on anyway.

We quite enjoyed the class and it felt like it had recipes we could replicate at home. At least, it would be if you could remember the details that the recipe doesn’t mention – we shall see how that goes! 🤞