Cambodia Cooking Class

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Louise julienning carrot for our spring rolls.
John, grinding peanuts into paste for spring rolls.
John mortar-and-pistil'ing some peanuts.
Spring rolls a-frying in King Crab vegetable oil.
File under T for They might not even have it in...
Louise shows off our creation: crispy spring rolls made...
A fisherman rowing his way by our cooking class on the...
Ingredients for green curry. All 4 students' plates...
Close-up of ingredients for green curry. Kafir lime...
All the vegetables for a dish called "som loh coco"...
Pea eggplant, Japanese eggplant, white jack fruit, long...
Who knew long beans were so long? Not me. I always...
Using a mortar and pistil to make green curry.
Shrimp paste, rock salt, palm sugar, and in the...
Vegetable oil of choice. This stuff was everywhere in Cambodia.
Som loh koko cooking away on
Niki and Louise cooking som loh koko.
Completed som loh koko ready to eat. Some rice (not) mixed in.
John, Louise and Irma eating som loh koko.
Poisonous tree frog who dropped in on our cooking class...
Kaffir lime.
Banana leave rounds, which we just traced and cut using...
Ingredients for red curry, which will be the base of our...
Here we have red curry ingredients. Lemongrass root,...
Sauce to be mixed with red curry for fish amok. ...
I think I should have been using a spoon for this. ...
Garnish for fish amok: very, very thinly cut slices of...
Folding our banana leaves into bowls with the help of...
Louise's completed banana leaf bowl, and some extra...
Yellow lentils, which we will turn into mung bean paste...
A "doily" as it were, for our fish amok.
Making doilies for our fish amok.
Fish amok dishes steaming away (they were cooked with a lid on).
Niki's completed fish amok.
My fish amok... looks better than the picture on the...
The students with their completed main course meal.
Cooked yellow lentils, ready to be made into dessert.
Glutenous rice flour (in the bag) being mixed with water.
Kneading the glutenous rice flour and water into dough.
This makes for a sticky mess, until the glutenous rice...
The dough starts to come together.
Mung bean balls.
Making dough balls.
Mung bean paste goes inside the glutenous rice flour...
Mung bean and glutenous rice wrapped in banana leaf and...
Note: fingers stained yellow from fresh turmeric handling.
Dessert, ready to be steamed.
So, while we were making dessert, Mr. Poisonous frog...
Our instructor, gassing the frog family in the bathroom.
Meanwhile, dessert is ready!
Dessert, ready for eating (well, you probably want to...