The Empress of Spice

that was the name on my certificate from Thai cooking school (self chosen of course)...today was a blast!!!...the staff was hilarious and my other 12 students were fun to get to know and share their dishes...I made 8 courses...breakfast-pad thai, app-chicken satay with two sauces, salad-papaya salad, curry-green curry with eggplant, side dish-stir fried morning glory, dessert-black rice pudding....everything was so delish and we got a cookbook when we left...I highly reccommend it if you are coming to this area...it is famous for it's cooking schools...it started with a trip to the market to show us all the ingredients that go into making fresh curry paste...made in a morter and pestal and much more delish than what you get in can at home...so dinner party when I return home of course fresh to death...one of my fellow cookers was a sweet Welsh girl from Melbourne Sian...she was catching a train tonight and already checked out of her guesthouse and needed a place to shower and chill so I took her back to Tawan gh with me...it's such a treat meeting other strong solo female travelers and hear their stories and get tips around different hot spots...and of course making another friend in Melbourne which is moving up the list of my places to travel to...just in the internet cafe sipping some lovely iced lemon tea and headed to the night bizarre to check out the deals...but probably saving myself for tommorrows Sunday market...headed to the beach soon...needed to get my brown skin on before I head to the jungle in Cambodia...trying to link up with some frisco heads in Bangkok to make the trip with me but if not I can do it on my own cuz that's how I do
ps...my friend Micheal from cooking class sent me these pix...enjoy