We started doing these evenings in May 2011 due to the huge popularity of Thai Cooking and people recognising, how important good Nutrition is to overall health. Each evening begins with people arriving and sampling a little thai speciality like mushroom or bean paste or just simply some homemade hummus on spelt crackers and enjoying some mouth watering juices like Elderflower from the health shop or having one of the lovely Pukka teas that Tan has on offer.
Mary discusses:
- Key ingredients used in the Thai Cooking demonstration and tasting and how important these foods are to our health and wellbeing.
- Herbs and Spices and the powerful health benefits and culinary uses that can be made with herbs and spices in our food. superfoods including coriander, chilli, galangal, holy basil.
- The thai superfood Coconut milk, which is used to add sweetness to thai curries. Coconut milk is rich in saturated fat, but as its a plant based saturated fat, it has a different structure to animal based fats. It therefore more readily used as energy in the body rather than being stored as fat.
- A Nutrition topic is discussed each evening including ”how to lose a stone for Christmas”or “anti cancer diet “or “how to keep your immune system boosted “
Tan Cooks:
- Tan cooks up the food each evening describing every step while we all wait for these mouth watering healthy dishes to come out to sample. Dishes are served with some more superfoods wholegrains including brown rice, quinoa( excellent protein sources and also gluten free) and her special Buckwheat noodles( gluten free also and very nutritious noodles) which all tastes so good along with a glass of wine
TESTIMONIALS AND COMMENTS FROM OUR EVENINGS
“ I really enjoyed the healthy Thai cookery course, the information on healthy eating in general from Mary was so helpful and the Thai food cooked by Tan was delicious while still being so good for us! The intimate group made it easy to ask questions during the demonstration and I really enjoyed the food and the glass of wine afterwards! I really enjoyed making the dishes for my family and will definetly be introducing more healthy thai food into our weekly menu. Thanks for the opportunity Mary ! “
Aisling – Cork
“Most enjoyable and looking forward to the next “
“Would like to attend more classes as I found the evenings very informative “
“Looking forward to getting some new dishes in the Spring Course in 2012 “
“Very relaxed and informal course – well done !”
“The Evening I attended was excellent, both Mary and Tan were very informative,clear and interesting. Food was beautiful too and atmosphere was easy and relaxed”
“I really enjoyed the event and found it all very easy to understand – I can’t wait to go home and try these healthy foods out for my family “ – Yvone – Cork
“Food absolutely delicious – well done “
“I know now why it was sellout – well done Ladies – looking forward to the next one !“
“Excellent evening – so relaxing and I learned so much ”
Both our May and September Evenings were totally sold out so we are looking forward to doing more of these evenings early 2012 – See you then !
Join Tan Pisanvalert (Chef and Owner of Banna Thai Restaurant’s, Cork City & Ballincollig) and Mary Carmody (Nutritional Consultant of Mary Carmody Nutrition.ie) and learn how to cook Nutritious Thai meals from scratch.
Flyer for our Last Course :
Date: 19th September & 26th September 2011
Time: 6.30 – 8.30 pm
Location: Banna Thai, Maylor St, Cork
Fee: 35 Euro per session or 120 Euro for all sessions (including tasting all
food cooked and a glass of wine and handouts )
- Introduction to Thai Cooking and its health benefits.
- Find out how to use medicinal fresh herbs and spices including garlic, coriander, lemon grass, mint and chillies in your cooking.
- Banna Thai Restaurants only use fresh natural ingredients and produce with every meal and believe in only producing good healthy dishes.
- Cookery demonstration of delicious, wholemeal Thai dishes (including starters/desserts and main courses) from scratch. These will all be sampled and enjoyed together at the end of each night with a glass of wine.
- Mary Carmody (marycarmodynutrition.ie) will be present each night to explore the health benefits of Thai cooking and how to use food as the medicine of Life.
- Find out how the power of good nutrition and food can combat heart disease, inflammatory disease, obesity, immunity or the common problems of fatigue and lowered mood.
- Mary specialises in Nutrition for Weight Loss so find out how to lose weight for Christmas.
In addition:
There will be a range of products available to examine and discuss plus a comprehensive list of the best of these available in health stores and supermarkets in Cork.
Handouts will include all the recipes prepared on the day.
- For information and booking,
email mary@marycarmodynutrition.ie or bannathai@yahoo.com or phone 085 7449960(Tan) or 087 2884461(Mary) – Numbers will be limited
Spring 2012 – Nutrition and Weightloss Programme’s being run by Mary either on 1:1 or as a group - I will help you lose your weight so book now on 087 2884461
