International Food Dept. - Siamese
In order to better appreciate the founding of our country, we decided to turn Sunday into Pad Thai day. Now that D— is older, we feel that we can start forcing him to eat food he hates without feeling like assholes, and the idea was to have a rainy day activity that was at least a little interesting yet absolutely laborious.
Pad Thai baby!
It requires about 20 ingredients (most of which are specialty store fare, like Tamarind Paste and Palm Sugar) and has about four cooking phases. A sauce has to be made out of Fish Sauce, Sriracha,boiled and sieve-strained Tamarind paste, and shredded palm sugar. Also you have to make a shallot oil that will be used later. And a ton of mise en place.
D— helped out as much as he could. I mean, he didn’t make the shallot oil, but he helped ground the peanuts and sliced the tofu. He liked posing for shots. And eating a lot of peanuts.
I didn’t have a wok, so that was a mistake, but the whole cooking process was a pretty easy. And it looked pretty good.
We tried to tell D— some stuff about Thailand. He didn’t give a shit, but he cleaned his plate eventually.
