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Learn about Thai cooking and Tipsy cocktails
Jam Sanitchat, owner of Thai Fresh on West Mary and blogger behind Thai Cooking with Jam, has teamed up with David Alan and Joe Eifler, aka The Tipsy Texans, for a Thai food and cocktail class at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday.
They offered a preview class last week to work out the kinks, and offered several food bloggers the chance to be guinea pigs.
Jam, who first started serving food at the Sunset Valley Farmers’ Market, uses local produce and meat whenever possible in both her cooking classes and the restaurant she opened last August.
During the class last week, she took us into the kitchen, where she talked about some of the ethnic ingredients — the curries, pastes, peppers, etc. — she was using, many of which you can buy in the restaurant.
She then showed us how to make chicken satay and corn cakes (she’ll be making shrimp cakes at this week’s class), dishes that would be perfect finger foods at just about any summer get-together. She also made a peanut sauce from scratch, which went perfectly with the chicken.
David and Joe are known for combining seasonal ingredients and local spirits for out-of-this-world drinks. So imagine the magic they create when tasked to include traditional Thai flavors that pair with Jam’s fragrant dishes.
At the class last week, David and Joe showed us how to make real mojitos and daiquiris and explained that both of these drinks are usually made so poorly that it’s no wonder we have skewed perceptions of A) what they are actually supposed to taste like and B) how simple they are to make.
The class costs $55, and you can e-mail Jam to sign up.
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By Tex
May 11, 2009 11:41 PM | Link to this
Hey Addie Thanks for the great review of our class. It was good fun to share our opinions about cocktails with the enthusiastic members of Austin’s food blogger community. I’m looking forward to sharing fresh cocktails and local spirits with the ‘civilians’! David
By Kristi
May 13, 2009 8:43 PM | Link to this
I have had the pleasure of Tipsy Texan’s cocktails … the pleasure was all mine! I call them cocktail connoisseurs! Sounds like great cooking class too!