Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice

Everyone get ready for a big dinner party when we get home because I (Betsy, that is. Lee decided to forego the class.) am now a master of Thai cuisine. After a full-day of hands-on training in the kitchen, I can now successfully prepare pad thai, spring rolls, chicken with garlic and basil, chicken and ginger stir fry, green curry, and bananas in coconut cream. A few things I learned today: 1) Thai food has a ridiculous amount of garlic in it. 2) You can’t use olive oil in a wok. 3) When you flambee something- stand WAY back, 4) There are about a zillion kinds of basil in Thailand. Too bad we only have one at home. The only thing we’re lacking now (ok, besides the fact that we’re homeless and don’t even have a kitchen) is a good wok. It’s on my Christmas list already.

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