Cooking Class 1...

This year, I have signed up for three cooking classes at the Le Cordon Bleu. It is a part of the Master Chef Cooking Classes program. They are 3 hour classes which are held at the local Le Cordon Bleu Culinary school.
The first one was poultry and meat...

I went to this one with a great friend who is also our neighbor; Shane. He is a stay-at-home dad and a wonderful cook. He was very excited about learning about de-boning a chicken and fish. I was not crazy about the de-boning part but I was interested in different ways of cooking meat.

The chef first showed us how to prepare chicken for roasting and then just cutting up the chicken into various pieces.

We covered chicken, steak, and veal...

This is what he cooked... Chicken breast with mushroom sauce and chicken scallopini with capers.

And steak with black peppercorns. Yum...

Here is Shane with his veal creation...

And me trying not to burn something... (Next time I have to remember to tie my hair)


Things I learned....
1) Equipment is extremely important
2) I need new knives (sharper) and saute pans (lighter)... (The knives are in mail as of today)
3) I miss gas stove
4) It is so much fun to cook when you do not have to worry about cleaning up
5) It is also so much fun having your pan catch fire... Thank you alcohol...
5) Fennel is very tasty and goes great with both meat and chicken

We were supposed to split a chicken but they ran out of chickens... Go figure... We ended up making streak and a veal dish...

I first made steak with mushroom and brandy sauce and ate it  (Really, I ate most of it)


Then I made veal scallopini with fennel and capers and ate that too. This was so good, I ate the whole thing...