• Merry Christmas everyone!

    Strawberry snowmen by Laura
    Merry Christmas everyone! Big hugs and kisses to all of you and may all your wishes come true in 2013 (uness they involve George Clooney then none of them will come true as he's mine).

  • Thai Fried Shrimp with Garlic and Pepper

    Thai shrimp with garlic and pepper
    A linguistics professor was lecturing to his English class one day. "In English," he said, "A double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative."
    A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."

  • Thai Pork with green beans in red curry paste

    Thai pork and green beans
    Here's another one of the lovely Nynke's lovely Thai food. I know To Thai For is a really old joke, but I still really love it! And this really is To... Seeing as I was (trying to) make a joke, I looked up Thai jokes on google and allow me to assure you, I ain't printing any of them. The "best" I could find that was still printable was: How to make a Thai laugh - try speaking their language. Well that person has not heard me speaking French as they would be laughing all their way a la maison!

  • Thai Sauteed Mixed Vegetables

    Thai sauteed mixed vegetables
    I scrolled through the lists of jokes our mate Edouard sends me, and managed to find one (story rather than joke...) that isn't offensive – more difficult than you might think! This is a story which is perfectly logical to all males:
    A wife asks her husband, "Could you please go shopping for me and buy one carton of milk, and if they have eggs, get 6."
    A short time later the husband comes back with 6 cartons of milk.
    The wife asks him, "Why did you buy 6 cartons of milk?"
    He replied, "They had eggs."
    (If you're female, I'm sure you're going back to read it again! Males will get it the first time.)

  • Nynke's Terrific Thai Temptations

    Today's recipe: Thai Chicken Green Curry
    Agathe and Nynke in Nynke's front garden
    The summer was filled with lots of activity and Nynke’s Terrific Thai meal was one of the highlights. We had Agathe (that’s her on the left in the photo with Nynke), a wonderful French student staying with us, and although the French do not traditionally eat spicy foods, she was really cool and tried everything. I basically had to be tied to my chair not to lick the plates after the meal. Thairrific.