Wawa's Ramblings

It was quite tedious preparing all the ingredients, unlike during the cooking class where all the ingredients were prepared and clean woks were supplied between each dish. I was in a frenzied state trying to get all the ingredients together for the pad thai and green curry chicken. The green curry chicken was very spicy at first (which I would have liked) but to cater to other taste buds, I needed to tone down the heat by adding more palm sugar (which made the dish a tad sweet).

The pad thai did not turn out well as by then, there were impatient and rumbling stomachs. I had intended to fry the pad thai for each person one at a time. Due to time constraints, I ended up frying half the ingredients and noodles at one go, which was about 4 times the amount I did in the cooking class! I made the mistake of not adding enough oil to the wok and hence the ingredients did not fry well and stuck to the wok. It was all sweat (and tears?) when I finally dished out the pad thai as it looked like a total mess to me. It added to my nerves too when E was standing over me as I cooked the noodles. It was so simple during the cooking class, maybe because we were only cooking a single serving. Meanwhile, Co was beside me frying the spring rolls and this also took longer than during our cooking class.

Luckily the dinner turned out ok and everyone tucked into the food with gusto (maybe it was because everyone was really hungry!). The pad thai tasted quite bland but was still edible.

Labels: curry, home cooking, pad thai, spring rolls