Amjad's Folks

Amazing day with awesome people who joined me cooking tonight! what a lovely way to celebrate birthday to someone who born the same day and what a small world . I have never had any friends who born the same day would be fun to celebrate together. Thank again Amjad to let me join special day with you in my class.

July 8 Cooking Class!

It was a fun class with this group !! Everyone such a friendly and open minded. We made three delicious meals tonight and everyone works together as a great team. Thanks for helping me kill all the dessert even though you guys are too full from appetizer and entree.

July 2nd Cooking Class!

What an interesting group I had tonight!!!Some people , not even try Thai food but chose my class to be the first make and try Thai dishes. I would salute because the dish we made tonight were not the one you know everyday and they did great. Good job and thank everyone!

Cooking Class 1st of July!

We had a bunch of good cook here tonight!! great team for chop chop chop and of course food came out delicious as good as they are..Totally full at the end..

2nd Times With Lumosity

It was nice having a team from Lumosity joined my class again , so Thanks to Erika who organized the group . A lot of laughs we had in the class, from papaya man , magic sauce team and chop chop people. Everything came out so good- thank everyone for eating all the food and cooked all those delicious meals.

A Tons Of Fun!!!!

It was a very fun group !!!! They were 2 people celebrated their birthday in my class tonight ! Everyone was get along and works well from the beginning. We made three course and they nailed all of the food, no food left on the plates . The foods were spicy and very hot dish but everyone went through which i gave thumb up.

At the end of the class is what I loved- everyone asking each other information and would like to keep in touch- see ,,food bring everything- fun, friends and full stomach  .

Girls Night Out!

It was nice having Erin and Honor in my class. They work in the same company and it was a girl night out.
They both  love Thai food and cooking. In this class,Even though it was only two of them but it was so fun and we learned a lot from each other - not only food but personal life.. I love this job because I get to see and meet a lot of interesting people in life.

Lunch Specail- Kua Keing !

Kua Keing ! 

It was a great lunch . A simple delicious dishes for whoever love spicy dish -Kua Keing!

This dish might not be easy to find in united state and I wonder why because it is so so good, or may be because it it too hot for american people. Basically, it made from a yellow curry paste and using a stir fired method instead of  boiling as other curry with a bunch of kaffir lime leafs  I cooked my rice with a butter fly pea that I brought it from Thailand to add vitamin and beautiful color to my dish for my guest 

A very Great class!

It was a great class with fun and interesting people. Most of them just got back from Thailand and fall in love with food and would like to make it at home. I hope that everyone in the class learned something tonight and master all of those dishes at their own kitchen.

Khao Mun Kai!

Khao Mun Kai or Thai chicken with oily rice!

I am sure whoever is a fan of Thai food will know this dish. In San Francisco, you can find this it some restaurant and it will cost you $12-$15 per order and everywhere in Thailand, probably 2 dollars maximum.

There are too many steps to accomplish this dish because it takes three component to complete the good favor and texture. Three important things and need to be done right  are Rice, Sauce and chicken. 

 Foe me, I am a sauce person , so the sauce would be my first thing that I can determine either this dish is good or not.Sauce made from blending Thai herbs- base is ginger, garlic and chilies and just soft boil cook in low heat for 10 mms. It should taste between sweet, salty ,sour and spicy . Cooking rice is easy but add a good favor into the rice with a good favor chicken stock to get and oily rice is not that easy but it did came out great.. I fried the garlic with a fat chicken then add the stock from slow cooking  for 3 hours. I  boil the chicken for 3 hours with Thai herbs- galangal, kaffir lime and daikon which get the best favor and most tender meat. I love this dish even though it takes a lot of work to make it good but it is worth.

Afternoon Tea With Me!

My special guests are Ananda and Christine. You will see there are quite a lot of dessert we had on the table but we did ate it all- I know it was bad but too good couldn't help. Choux or cream puff or portfolio , you can call it which is a pastry ball make from the same dough. It is light and crispy texture. 

Pâte à Choux Green Tea Chantilly!  

Russian Honey Cake!

The petite 6 layers Russian honey cake .. I actually made this a couple days before having it with other sweet which is actually perfect because this cake it need to let it set for a day after you make before you can eat to get the dough and cream homogenize into a favor.It wasn't difficult as it looks and also fun to do it too.

A fun evening!

It was a fun evening and mixed of great , fun and interesting people.Half of the group are joining the class to  to celebrate a special birthday for their friend. They made all great meals with passion of plating their food:))good job everyone.

Couples Cooking Class!

It was a great week cooking with all great couples from difference places. Everyone is great cooks. They love cooking difference cuisine and I enjoyed having a conversation in my class. Thanks for cooking all delicious meals with me.

Afternoon Tea !

Inspired Baking everything with matcha today , just because of my friends brought me a matcha and green tea from Japan. So, for our meeting afternoon tea today I made it for them and let's them also contribute some work to sandwich the macarons.
My personal, I love everyhting with green tea and this bring me back a good memory when I visited Japan where I ate green tea ice cream everyday.  I also, mad a drink- green tea latte and a matcha cookies beside macarons. I can't wait to go back school and come back to share more of my experience at Le Cordon Blue in Paris with my Diploma in pastry chef at the end of this year. I hope to open pastry class after all I have learned,so  "Stay tune".

Mom's Night Out!

It was a mom gathering cooking party! Thank you to Organized by Miranda and Christine. I love the theme of bringing people to have a good time together and you know nothing better than good food and esp, cooking and do thing together. Great job ladies -you guys did fantastic three course .

Cooking With Guilli & Her Love Friends!

Lovely evening with a group of Guilli's friends and they made me so happy with all the food they made .They know each other for long time and everyone is so nice and I enjoyed them so much in my class. They made a good meals, put a lot of hours made those delicious three course and those yummy food belong to them- they ate everything which made me so happy . Thank so much and hope to see you again.

Miriam 's team!

It was a lot of fun with this group! such a lucky that they found each other and same to me that it was a great time with a lot of laugh with them and  cooking all delicious meals with me. Awe, awesome people-nothing to say but yes you guys are Awesome:)

Couples Night Out!

All 5 couples tonight! Some can cook, some don't just came out for a fun night out in my class and good food which they did a good job. Great team and delicious meals . Thanks everyone!

It was a long fun night!

It was a very fun night with these group ! A lot of laugh and long conversation!Everyone so nice, friendly and good cook. I so enjoyed my class with all people i met and will never want to stop teaching until i get too old:)

Saturday Night Class!

It was a mixed group of people in this class but they seem came the same group. It was really good team. Tonight the dish were required a lot of team work for appetizer- fish cake and a lot of preparation for other dishes. Anyway, this group did  great job for all difficult three course meals all together. Thank all for joying me  cook all those delicious meals.