Cooking Class

I take cooking class once a week at school. So far I've had two classes. There are three of us in the class. There is me, an exchange student from Germany named Swea, and a Chinese teacher from China named Nan.

Each week we switch off from Thai dessert to main dish. These are pictures from my first class. The dish is called bualoyoloi. The first step was making the dough. We used flour made out of sticky rice. All we added to the flour to make the dough was water and dye. Me Swea and Nan each made a different type of dye. Swea had the blue flower, Nan had the red flower and I was in charge of a grass type plant to make green. We used a stone mortar and pistol to pound the ingredients until they were ready to make dye. We made each little ball then boiled the balls in water until they began to float. Once they started floating they were almost done.

We made a couple sweet sauces to go on top of the balls of dough. We took some coconut milk and boiled it down. Had to be careful not to burn it. Then we made a ginger sauce made of ginger and sugar. The last step was to parboil an egg in the ginger sauce. To put the dish all together you put an egg in a rice boil, take a spoonful of each of the different colored balls, poor a little coconut milk on top and sprinkle a little sesame seed on top. I really like ginger so I put a little extra ginger sauce in mine. It is really interesting to take cooking class and only be able to understand a few words. All I do is try to copy my teacher the best I can.