Sawasdee ka... Welcome to Thai Cooking Class at Home Blog. If you are not sure of a way to appreciate Thai food...then, experience this unique way of treating yourself to a fantastic home cooked Thai dinner in the comfort of your own home. In a space of three hours, I will take you to the market, teach you the art of choosing the best ingredients, my secret places and stalls, how to prepare and cook an unforgettable dinner for two or more
Tuesday 26 April 2011
Monday 25 April 2011
Thai Culture Corner
Do you know much about Thai cuisine & culture? Can you name a few things that are related to Thai cuisine & culture? If you are not too savvy about it, then let me tell you a little story about my home country...
Thai cuisine is famous for the subtle blending of four basic tastes: sweet, sour, spicy and salty. These four basic tastes represent the corner stone of a large proportion of dishes. Such tastes prevail more or less depending on the many provinces cooking styles and availability of ingredients. There is a myriad of such ingredients that may help to achieve these four basic tastes. Among those, the most common are either a combination of herbs or spices namely chili, galangal, lemongrass, kaffir leaves, basil(s) and fruits such as lime, lemon and papaya. More information about each herb and spice see "Ingredients Corner" please!
Thai people normally eat their meals with steamed plain rice. The best variety of steamed rice in the world is called "Jasmin Rice". It is a long grain rice that was originally cultivated in the province of Chachoengsao that is situated 150km to the East of Bangkok. Another rice specialty is the famous steamed sticky or glutinous rice. Most of the northerners and northeasterners eat their food with sticky rice. Thailand as you know is famous as a land of Jasmin Rice and it is also the world number 1 Jasmin Rice exporter.
Jasmin Rice Harvesting
You might have seen Jasmin rice grains look like, but do you know how they're cultivated, harvested and finally ended up in your plate and at last eaten by you?...Lets see hah?
(stage 1: Preparing rice field) (stage 2: Pouling rice trees)
(stage 3: Baby rice trees) (stage 4: Matured rice trees)
(stage 5: Planting matured rice trees) (stage 6: Growing stage)
(stage 7: Harvesting) (stage 8: Currying to the hitting field)
(stage 9: Threshing) (stage 10: Hulling)
(stage 11: Cleaning) (stage 12: Complete cleaning)
(stage 13: cooking) (stage 14: In your plate!!)
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