A beautiful flower on the school grounds

Kook describing how to make coconut cream and coconut milk

Stuffed with whole lemon grass and coated in salt on a small grill. I bet this was moist and delicious

Musician at the market

Kook describing the produce at the farm

Steve creating his red curry paste. I did a green curry

Baskets full of pestles

Very wilted and very full. The food we made was better than any Thai food we have eaten in US restaurants

Our Christmas feast

The staff Xmas party...they were having a ball

Our teacher "Kook" teaching us about the different types of rice in Thai cooking

This market was exceptionally clean and wonderful

Pre packaged makings for Tom Yum soup. You see this at all the markets

By the restroom at the cooking school. Would love to have one of these koi vases

Each of the 10 students had their own cooking station

My green curry paste just starting to pound down

Chicken coconut soup burbling on the stove

My Papaya salad. Made entirely in a mortal and pestle and INCREDIBLE and HOT

The wok group learning the ropes

Wonderful water garden and pond. This papyrus was lovely

I took a wald around the plantation during our 1/2 hour bread after lunch. So serene

Lemongrass in the garden

Ingredients for our desserts...banana coconut cream and pumpkin soup

These fish could have used a twee bit more space

These fish looked really tasty...even at breakfast time

Big eye and jaw on this fish. Looks like some of those deep water ones

This truck drove by with funny music blasting

More produce

Ingredients for my Chicken green curry...I made mine really spicy awesome

My neighbor chose a vegetarian soup

Cleanup at the school

Kook demonstrating wok techniques

Woks drying in the sun

So cute....kitty paws in the dry concrete

Little orange cat was a doll baby

Green , Red and Yellow curry paste hand ground with mortar and pestle

Fish with a twist..I heart fish

Huge squid

I was just about to change my chicken curry choice to vegetarian curry when I saw this as we arrived at the school...lol!

My finished green chicken curry

Steve working on his soup

Sticky rice steamer

My first 3 dishes ready to eat. Papaya Salad, Green Chicken Curry, and Chicken coconut milk soup

Monsterous lotus pads

Loofa drying in the sun. These will be peeled to reveal the "sponge" inside

A butcher at the market

More market goodness

Pork skin is very popular here...kind of like our pork rinds but dipped into hot condiments..Yummy

The grounds of the school were beautifully landscape. It is a working farm as well as school

The huge mortar and pestle is a very important part of Thai cooking. We need to buy a much larger one for at home

INgredients for my chicken coconut soup

Steve is starting his wok dish

Woking man

Over the pond

We all wore hats in the sun