edpaffjr.comWe celebrated my birthday on Friday evening. My birthday was four months ago, but due to multiple reschedulings, we weren’t able to use my gift from Kim until then. She bought seats for both of us to attend a cooking class at the Cook Street School of Fine Cooking. Originally we were going to take a grilling class, but after missing that class we opted for an Thai cooking class.
First we were briefed on all of the different dishes we were going to prepare and enjoy over the next three hours. From there we were all actually able to get our hands dirty and involved in each phase of multiple dishes. For both Kim and I, it was great to learn some knife skills first, and then put them to use cutting and chopping all sorts of fresh ingredients. Later, we were involved in tasting and recommending additions that needed to be made to each dish. And finally, we got to sit and enjoy all of the dishes the group of around fifteen of us prepared.
Though we lost the recipe book that was provided to us for each of the dishes, I think the overall knowledge we gained will help both of us cook better than before. Now all I need is a decent chef’s knife to use as the techniques we learned are likely not going to work with what I’m using currently.
So do you still like the Henckel 4-stars after your class? That sounds pretty cool; We’ll be ready for homemade Thai food next trip up.
Honestly, I have no clue on knives and just went of advice from others and from reading online. And the curries that we made were really simple to do with the proper paste.
Hope you don’t find this too weird, but I’ve been trying to get input on this awesome line of Fantasy football trophies I’ve been designing. I checked out some of your posts, and it seems like you took home a trophy this past season. It would be cool if you could check out my hand-made trophies and let me know what you think.
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Thanks and sorry for ambushing your blog.
Dave
Sorry Dave, we play for bragging rights only.