Well girls, I cook 5 nights a week and have been doing so for years, Jane buys the food and helps prep (sometimes) then i cook, it works for us and i get to eat what i like hehe. It also helps when you love cooking as i do.
Cheers, Pete.

Your one in a million Pete!!!!! I need one the same same but different!!

Hi Cathy and thanks for letting me off the hook with Michelle.

I did not want to answere on your behalf and say that you had told me you were not interested in cooking.

Megumi and I handle the cooking about 50/50 at our house and it just so happens that I was at today's Sunday market to pick up the fixings for making her and her mom Phad Thai tonight.

I have to agree with Pete's comment as other then her Japanese cooking I prefer to cook myself when I want to eat the dishes that I crave myself.

Happy Dining & Regards From Phuket

Richard & Megumi

Slightly off topic, but I did Pums cooking school when I was there in Dec/Jan 07.

Im hopefully coming back in July, and will probably do another course, not necessarily at Pums, but just somewhere that I get to learn some awesome dishes.

I have to go to the markets here in Melbourne to find some of the ingredients, especially galangal - impossible to get at the supermarket and its a different colour here too, a really bright orange.

Have to say there is nothing tastier than homemade curry paste. The bottled stuff just doesnt taste the same

Hi suzyq40,
We were in Melbourne 5 Years ago for a period of 5 years and we had no trouble finding Galangal, we used to get in at the Asian fruit & veg shop at Parkmore shopping center and it is sometimes available at the large supermarkets like Safeway and Coles at Southland shopping center.
Just ask at Safeway and Coles and see if any of their stores stock it.
I agree with you on the homemade curry pastes the shop ones just don't cut it for me either, i always make my own and just last weekend made some Red, Green and Penang curry pastes.
This site is excellent for their Thai recipes.
http://importfood.com/recipes.html
Cheers, Pete

Unfortunately I live on the other side of town to Southland, but can easily find it at the Vic market, so that satisfies me

Thanks for the link too

Well.. I did Mom Tri's Boathouse Cooking School, which was okay... First day is just watching the Poochun make all the salads and appetizers, which were nice but as a cooking teacher really boring. Day 2 we got to cook, but it was take turns and we couldn't choose what were cooked it was all set.

I still recommend Pum's Restaurant and Cooking School and Phuket Cookery School which I sent a few of the people I met in my hotel of too.

Hi Denise,
That's disappointing about Mom Tri's. I am with you though if you can't get into actual cooking i would find it boring as well.
Just loved Pum's last year i had Pui and she is just lovely with a great sence on humor.
I have heard that Phuket Thai Cookery school is very good so i might give it a try this September.
http://www.phuket-thaicookeryschool.com/
Cheers, Pete.

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