I love food.
Ok. I said it. Not that it's a surprise to anyone, but I'm obsessed. I'll watch Diners, Drive Ins and Dives and I'll drool along to Iron Chef: America. I watch Unwrapped and The Best Thing I Ever Ate and Man vs. Food and Martha! I'm in love with Alton Brown and Bob Blumer. I pore over Bakerella and Pioneer Woman's blogs (see right). I have food on the brain 100% of the time.
So I guess it's no surprise that I also like cooking. Not that I'm actually any good at it, but I like slicing and dicing and baking. But the way that The Boy's schedule and mine collide, he's actually the one who makes dinner most of the time (Wednesday nights are generally my night). One of the things I wanted to put on the 30ttdbi30 list was to take a cooking class.
My friend TS was talking about wanting to take classes, so together we found a pretty cheap Chinese cooking studio (called "The Studio") in Kanata. We enlisted her husband RH and my then-boyfriend-then-called-The-Boy-now-still-called-The-Boy and drove out for the adventure.
Turns out this woman was operating out of her house (sketchy) and she WAS Chinese, but she was teaching us how to make hot and sour soup, spring rolls, beef and broccoli, and general tso's chicken. Have you read the Fortune Cookie Chronicles by Jennifer 8. Lee?
Well. I'm becoming less scared of deep frying at home now. that's a start.
2 comments:
Favourite classes I've taken were Chinese, but they were through Continuing Ed and were at an actual school. But learned all the authentic Chinese dishes, from spring rolls to deep fried bananas, Hot & Sour soup, Ginger Beef (a Calgary must-have)... Also enjoyed learning Greek, Spanish and want to take a Japanese lesson (or two). The Food Channel rocks...it's the only TV to really watch!!
hmm.. I'm not sure that spring rolls OR deep fried bananas count as "authentic chinese", BUT i like them. :) I'm dying to try them all...
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