i cook popcorn GOOD
08/19/03 ~ 9:07 a.m.
once again, tales of jenn and kiki will be postponed, cuz i i was at cooking class and got home too late to upload the pictures.
so, cooking class -- was pretty fun. our teacher seems WAY too experianced and famous-like to be teaching a beginning cooking class. she's written 14 books, been on tv, in bon appetit magazine, and is bulding a 100 foot BLT in a few weeks. she's impassioned by salt and pepper and spent a long time telling us about them. but she seems cool.
case in point: we made popcorn in a pan. so i'm holding the pan, shaking it gently so the kernals don't burn, and david suggests that i shake it harder. i do, the top comes off, popcorn begins shooting everywhere, my kitchen mates are freaking out, and the teacher cracks up. she was laughing so hard she made all of us laugh. it was great.
only sad thing is that my group is in the isolated kitchen. there's 7 kitchens, and the first six are all in one room, and the 7th is actaully the demo kitchen, with the mirror above the counter and stove so one can see what the demonstator is cooking. that's our kitchen.
david and i want to make some friends in these classes, as well as learn to cook things from scratch and learn to make new things for dinner instead of the same ol', same ol'. so we're trying to go into the other kitchen room and hang out. it's possible some of these people could become our pals. there are a fair number of hoochies though. in general, david and i don't mesh so well with hoochies. nothing against them... we're just not "trendy" enough.
we're big fat nerds. it's ok with us.
anyways, by the end of the class, we're going to be making pizza from scratch that actually will taste good, as opposed to our previous tries. we're going to learn how to use vegtables well, how to use herbs (from the garden!), and yes... how and when to use salt to bring out a food's flavor. should be cool.
AND the walk to the classroom is a small hike cuz we didn't buy a parking permit, and it helped me get 10,000 steps yesterday! woo!
besides being really really tired today, i'm in a good mood. i got to snuggle all night with a warm cuddly boy, and though i wish i was still there, just the memory makes me smile. :)
~holly~
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