One of my goals for the year was to take a cooking class and learn to cook some new dishes. I'm an okay cook when it comes to dishes you might find at Denny's but I'm definitely not as versatile as I'd like to be. In the spirit of the departed chef Gusteau's book, "Anyone Can Cook", and in an effort to check off one of my goals for the year, I figured it was time to learn a few new recipes. Since I have some time off of work this week and am in UT visiting my folks, I decided that we should try a different Thanksgiving tradition--out with the turkey, stuffing and cranberry jelly and in with something a little more exotic.We decided to cook a Thai thanksgiving dinner which included an appetizer of shrimp spring rolls, a green mango salad, beef Pho and a main course of Green Curry w/ chicken.
Most of the meal turned out amazing--the kind of meal that you'd get at any of my favorite Thai places in NYC or LA. Of course, instead of paying $10-20 for a good meal and having it ready in 20 minutes, we spent significantly more than that and the meal was ready in a little under 3 hours. It was really cool learning to cook something new.I don't think we're ready to swap turkey for Thai in the future, but it was cool to try something new and it was fun to learn to cook some dishes i've never tried before.
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