#4: Thai Food!

Alright! Last night we (the Boy and myself) had dinner plans that were planned two weeks in advance for Thai food with two awesome friends of ours (AKA before I decided to do this challenge)! I've never made Thai food before in my life! Also since yesterday was crazy busy, I didn't have time to look up a recipe and get the food I needed. Instead, the Boy got the food we would need and was more of my "live" recipe, if you will.

Process:
+Cut all the veggies we wanted to include: broccoli, bok choy, thai basil, yellow bell pepper, and green onion. (we also prepped the beef, too)
+We made a mixture of sweet and sour, chili paste, and oyster sauce and used that for marinating the thinly sliced beef.
+Before we combined everything together in the Wok, we also made DEEP FRIED TOFU! Ahhhh! It's my new favorite thing! As soon as I was pulling it out of the wok, everyone was on that like it was deep fried tofu!
+After the tofu was done, we started cooking things in the wok. First the beef, pulled that out, added the fresh rice noodles, added veggies, and added the beef again. I mixed for as long as I could but I obviously don't have the awesome wok cooking skills just yet (AKA my wrists got tired real fast).
+We served, we ate, we ate some more, and it was delicious! Definitely would make it again!

The healthy stuff ;)

Some of the good stuff for our Thai dish

Mmmm, bean sprouts!

A shot of all our veggies and thinly sliced beef

Final dish. Soooo good!

Wish I had more pictures of the process to share with everyone, but this was a fast paced dinner. Our friends, C and L, brought over dessert: angel food cake with Roobios Chai. Mmmmm, be jealous!

What I learned:
+Cooking tofu in hot oil can really hurt.
+When I first started the tofu I would try to keep them from cooking together, which ended up in broken pieces of tofu. After the first or second round though, I was able to keep them apart and have them retain their triangular form.
+I can eat fried tofu with sweet and sour sauce every day of my life.

What kind of Thai dishes have you made and loved?