Rana and I both love Thai food, so we were super excited to take an all day cooking course on an organic farm.  They picked us up in the morning and took us to an open air food market and taught us about several of the different ingredients.  Then they gave us a list of Thai dishes and told us to each pick out 5 that we wanted to make.  Rana and I picked out different dishes so that we could try each others.  Before we started cooking they gave us aprons and large straw hats and took us on a tour around the farm and showed us several of the fruits and vegetables that we would be cooking with.  The first thing we made was a curry paste, which consisted of about 10 different ingredients finely chopped and then put into a stone mortar…this is where you get to let your aggression out by pounding and grinding for about 10 minutes until you have a paste.  I was so happy when my red curry chicken and chicken coconut milk soup turned out just as good or better than any restaurant I’ve been to…since these are two of my favorite dishes I can’t wait to make them at home.  My spring rolls also turned out great.  It was so much fun!  Everything Rana made was delicious as well and we especially loved the sticky rice and mangos.  The only bummer was something made Rana break out in a rash.  We weren’t sure if it was from heat or the food.  The next day she got it again, but since we weren’t in the heat we figured it must be something from the food.  We think it might be from fish sauce so she’s been staying away from that and it hasn’t happened again.