First Lesson on Cooking Thai Food

I want to first introduce myself. My name is Ood but everyone calls me Mama. I have 6-month old twin grandsons and I am having a blast with them. I have been cooking for a long long time now and I have never kept a recipe book. I have owned several Thai restaurants throughout California but now I'm retired. I use to just cook for my family and friends, but now I want to teach others on how to make really good authentic Thai food. I will give you recipes for dishes that you can find in most Thai restaurants as well as dishes that are only available in Thai restaurants that serve Thai people (the kind of food I eat). You can't make good Thai food with kits that are sold in specialty food stores so we'll need to figure out how to get you access to Thai ingredients. You can ask me about this again later.

Today we'll make Pad Thai.