3 Ginger Snaps

First, We went to the market to get out ingredients. We traveled by tuk tuk. We saw watermelon, carrots, fish, potatoes, tomatoes, beans, pumpkin, scotch bonnets, spiced, papaya, cabbage, and mango. 



The fish monger cut the head off and stuck his hand inside and pulled out the guts. He used the leg of a chair as a mallet to hammer the knife through the fish. He sharpened his knife on a roof shingle. 

We returned to the cooking school. We used a coconut mill to drill out the coconut from the shell. The drill worked by spinning a handle attached to sharp blades and the machine worked like an egg beater. We used the shredded coconut (that looked like snow) to make coconut cream. First we added water to the shredded coconut. Then we mixed it all together. Then we picked it up and used our right hand to squeeze out all the water. We put the pressed coconut in a separate bowl and added water again and did the same process to get coconut milk. 

Next we thinly sliced aubergines and deep fried them in oil. 

Then we made curry. Curry is a very common dish in Asia. It is spicey. Sometimes it can be yellow. It can also be red, green, white. It is always eaten with rice. (Which we love…)

Here is how you make curry. You take 1kg of anything and chop it up. Then you add 20 curry leaves plus 1 teaspoon each of:

• Curry powder
• Onion
• Garlic (mashed in mortar)
• Ginger (mashed in mortar)
• Turmeric
• Pepper
• Salt 
• Chilli powder
• Green chilli peppers (add them whole if you want it a little spicey and chop them up if you want it really spicey)
• Garam Masala
• 1″ of cinnamon stick
• Broken lemon grass leaves

Add coconut milk and coconut cream. Cook on medium heat for 15mins. Then eat with rice and popadoms. 



Here is the list of all the curries we made today:

1. Fish – mild
2. Fish – spicey
3. Lentil
4. Mango
5. Beans and carrots
6. Pumpkin

Here are our thoughts on today’s experience:

Arden: awesome because there was yummy food and because I got to cut onions and carrots and other foods. 

Charlotte: we got to try lots of new foods and we made it as a group. I want to go to more cooking classes. 

Ruby: we made new friends. We had lots of fun. 

Hil: curry has always been a bit of a mystery to me. After the lesson, I feel I could make it myself. Who wants to come over for dinner?

Drew: really enjoyed the trip to the market to see all the food. Especially enjoyed watching the fish monger work. And like learning to use a new kitchen tool: the coconut mill.