You all are funny. I write about The Vatican and the Sistine Chapel, no comments. I got five comments on the post before that, all on my earrings. FYI, yesterday was our epic tour, so you should read that entry too.
Today was our cooking class! My mom and I took a taxi there because we were afraid of getting lost. Daddy didn’t want to do the class, so we left him behind.
We made a four course meal. The first was pumpkin blossoms stuffed with mozzarella and meat or eggplant, beer battered and fried. Our pasta was spaghetti carbonara . Second course was… it was meat, cheese and bread wrapped in beef. Dessert was teramisu.
Probably the most interesting I learned today was how to cook with raw eggs. The only danger comes from the shell, since that’s the part that passes through the chicken and gets contaminated with salmonella. So to protect against contamination, you can place them in boiling water for five seconds to kill the bacteria and crack your eggs open over a separate bowl so you don’t get any egg shell in your eggs. We used the raw eggs in the teramisu and the carbonara. Both of these were my favorites today :)
The carbonara was fun to make. Yes, we made the pasta fresh, from scratch, eggs from wheat fed chickens and all. It was delicious, though probably not something I’ll ever do again. The sauce was awesome, so I might try making that if I can find pork cheek in the supermarket…
We also made fresh tomato sauce for the beef which I need to try again sometime because it was pretty easy.
Teramisu isn’t supposed to have alcohol in it by the way. He says that chefs sometimes use alcohol to keep it from going bad, so if you’re in Italy and you taste alcohol in your teramisu, it’s probably old. Plus, it means “pick me up,” because of the coffee, so puting alcohol in it kinda has the opposite effect. And it worked. I was very sleepy before dessert and I’m wide awake now. This is what happens when you never drink coffee. Usually I don’t like teramisu because of the coffee, but this was delicious.
We took the bus back from the class. I am never taking a bus in Rome again. Not unless the men suddenly start wearing deoderant. This dude had his armit directly over, touching, my head. I yell to my mom, “hey, let’s get out at the next stop!” “Why, don’t we have a while yet?” “It’s not that far, we can walk!” Plus there were so many people and more were going to get on before we got to our stop, I couldn’t take it anymore.
Not sure what we’re doing tonight, but I see more gelato in my future. Yes, even after the four course meal. Everyone was saying how much food there was, but I don’t know about that. I had seconds of everything but dessert :D
Wow, that looks like so much fun! I love the decorations on your cooking plate as well as the pictures of making the pasta. My Grandma used to make pasta from scratch and I was always amazed watching her do it. So glad you guys had a fun time together. Mom and Daughter time is the best!
Haha, I read yesterday’s entry, just didn’t know what to comment on, so I didn’t.
Anyway, oh wow, cooking class? Now that sounds awesome!!! As for raw eggs, hmm, thanks for the trick, I may end up using that. I’ve always been skeptical about raw eggs. Oh, and the pork cheek? You’d find it at Asian stores.
only asian store by us is Indian and I don’t remember seeing any meat at all there