Pad Thai

More years ago than I would like to admit, we took a Thai

cooking class from our friends Saluay and Cheri at Hut 10

at McMurdo Station. Cheri had recently taken a similar

class at the Baan Thai Cookery School in Chiang Mai, Thailand

and was willing to share her new-found knowledge with us.

Our friend, Saluay, who is originally from Thailand acted as

co-teacher and we learned how to make all sorts of great

Thai dishes. In Antarctica, of all places! We even received

a great cook book to take with us. Ever since then, I've loved

to make Pad Thai. It's one of my favorite dishes since I love

Thai food and I love taking all the steps to make it a great

dish. Lynn claimed that my latest effort was possibly the best

Pad Thai she's ever had and I like to think it was pretty darn

good as well. Darn...now I have this urge to go back and visit

Thailand again...

MexItalThai

Where else but McMurdo would this be one of the nicest
places in town. For McMurdo standards, Hut 10 is the
best place around when having small get togethers or
small parties with a few friends. In other locales, it
would probably be a crack house...or at least condemned.
Lynn and I reserved Hut 10 this weekend and had some
friends over today. Even though we hadn't planned it,
we celebrated Cinco de Mayo by making Green Chile and
breakfast burritos for brunch and then Pad Thai and Pizza
for dinner. Where else could you get Pizza and Pad Thai
for Cinco de Mayo? We capped off the day by playing
a "rousing" game of Global Pursuit. So instead of
sitting around McMurdo on our Sunday, we travelled the
world, eating MexItalThai and learning about the earth,
playing a pre-fall-of-the-Soviet-Union-20-year-old
geography board game. What could be better?