Above: The Library is inviting patrons to register for another free zoom lesson run by the owner of Ploy’s Kitchen. (photos from Facebook and instagram)
In less than a month, the Southborough Library is resuming lessons for making international cuisine. And the Library is continuing to host a monthly Cook Book Club.
Both programs involve cooking at home. With the Cook Book Club, that’s followed by the social element of bringing in what you prepare to share.
The meetings take place on the first Tuesday of the month, 6:30 – 8:30 pm on the Library’s main floor.
The next meeting is March 5th. Instead of a book, this time members are encouraged to bring a dish based on a recipe from one of the Library’s magazines. (Examples in their collection are Food & Wine, Good Housekeeping, Better Homes and Gardens, and Real Simple.)
New members are always welcome. If you’d like to take part, email your intended recipe selection to Marianna Sorensen (msorensen@southboroughma.com).
As for the Cooking with Ploy sessions, those are all held over zoom, and led by the professional cooking instructor Ploy Khunisorn, the owner of Ploy’s Kitchen.
The next lesson will be on making “Thai Street Food“:
Thai cuisine is full of aromatic ingredients, cooking styles, and dish decorations. In this online interactive class, we’ll make 2 delicious Thai dishes from scratch including Thai coconut chicken soup (Tom Kha Gai) and pad Thai with chicken.
(Since Ploy is a Thailand native, the cuisine should be authentic.) That takes place on March 14th from 6:00 – 7:30 pm.
You can get a glimpse of the fare from her insta post below about a similar class she hosted in 2022:
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To register for the free class, click here. Participants will receive a shopping list in advance to prepare for the class.
Ploy’s bio (scroll down for that) makes clear that her cooking expertise extends past her native cuisine. And her instagram posts show she’s been doing a lot of international traveling. That may have helped inspire the lesson scheduled for Tuesday, April 9th — making “Empanadas“:
Many types of Empanadas are commonly seen in Southern European, Latin American, Indonesian, and Filipino cultures. In this online interactive class, we’ll make empanadas from scratch. We’ll start making empanada dough. Then, we’ll make ground beef filling and learn different folding techniques. While we bake our empanadas, we’ll make the delicious Argentinian chimichurri sauce.
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Ploy’s website shares of the her expertise in teaching how to cook dishes from an array of cultures:
She went to Suan Dusit International Culinary School while she was working as a financial analyst in Bangkok. She came to the USA to earn a Master of Liberal Arts in Sustainability at Harvard University and a Master of Education at Cambridge College. She started teaching cooking classes since 2014. Having traveled to over 30 countries, she has enjoyed and learned to cook varieties of cuisine around the world. In her 8+ years of teaching experience, Ploy has taught over 5,000 students to cook and bake Asian cuisines, vegan food, gluten free diets, pastries, and more. She is also a certified tea master.
