Looks like they were made by the people behind Disney’s 1979 movie “The Black Hole” – wonder if the food is also cheesy.
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Sharing this video just for my Phuket Project friend Frankie – and for all the comments it generated on the Youtube page – it’s a rambling video – but makes an interesting point – there is no or hardly any wheat flour in Thailand – and ovens are luxury items – so bad bread all around if you want it. I really wish I could bake some of Frankie’s cookies from the recipe she posted recently on Facebook, but alas I must settle for the best Thai food in the world every day. ![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=51574581-f470-4b39-99ef-1028906bbfaf) (Note: At the end of March 2010 Yui and I showed this video we made a few months earlier to some members of a committee for public health and they were quite moved by it – especially the shot of the boy seen above making the Bua Loi – and it may have helped promote our future projects in aiding people with disabilities. ) This is another of our Thai dessert cooking classes for the kids at the Sri Sangwan School for children with disabilities. The Bua Loi has a kinda Gummi Bear texture and is made with natural ingredients – fruit for flavor and flowers for coloring. Music is both a Thai and Jazz version of the children’s classic “If You’re Happy and You Know it” – the Thai version by my wife and the jazz version is by David Leonhardt from the album “Jazz for Kids”. ![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=60290dfc-8676-4471-81c3-9e870472bba7) Tom may seem a mild mannered english cocker spaniel, but he has a dark side – he is a serial killer, of chicken. With at least 4-5 confirmed dead, Tom has left a murderous trail over the length of Thailand. If only we could catch him in the act, and if only we weren’t so hungry. Fortunately several of our neighbors offered to help hide the evidence of Tom’s latest crime by cooking it using a local dutch oven method. And the results were delicious. I would like to say that no animals were harmed in this production, but sadly and fortunately I cannot. ![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=49488baf-df49-4018-b897-ee1c5d6c6a32) The whole time I was in Khon Kaen they were building this monstrosity – the Khon Kaen Central Plaza – and last week it had it’s grand opening. Unfortunately I returned to the States before I could go inside, but thanks to Flickr and Youtube I finally got to visit it. Yui said the traffic that day pretty much shut down the city. Had no idea the thing was going to look like a Vegas casino at night – hope it’s just for the opening. And how can you not like a dancing animatronic dinosaur (for about five minutes)?
I am so there…when I get back. A cooking class on making Krong Kran, a Thai dessert that Yui and her aunt taught to the kids at the Sri Sangwan School for children with disabilities in Khon Kaen. The colors and flavors of the dessert were from flowers and plants (my contribution was to collect the blue flowers from the bushes outside our house). The result was a very chewy Gumi Bear-like candy that we sprinkled on some awesome local ice cream. The recipe is kinda hard to put down on paper but very simple. Music in the video is Bach Concerto #4 in A performed by Iona Brown Academy of St Martin in The Fields. ![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=595192d6-fffe-4840-9654-48ee629f7025)  This year's Mooncakes It”s Mooncake season – a Chinese tradition followed here in Khon Kaen. We bought these at a local bakery – they are more like a meal than a cake, some containing egg, others lotus seeds, red beans, you name it (but no pizza flavored ones here, bummer) and they come with decorative boxes you can use all year. It reminds me of King cake season in New Orleans. Related articles by Zemanta
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 Jis a scenic artist and filmmaker who lives part time in Ohio and Khon Kaen. He first came to Thailand in 1972 as a child and returned in 2004 with the Phuket Project to aid in the Tsunami relief effort. Yuiis a doctor in Khon Kaen. She has studied in the U.S. and Great Britiain but is happiest on a bike riding around Thailand with the Khon Kaen Mountain Bike Team Tom and Shampooare English Cocker Spaniels who live in Khon Kaen, but often travel to other planets in a spaceship they designed and fight alongside Hanuman against all evil. They also like swimming and sleeping.  |
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