We all had our roles during the cooking class with Chef Andrea, who was a very handsome, amazing Italian chef. My first job in the kitchen was to clean all the vegetables that were using for our pasta Bolognese sauce, make a sauté out of them, and then stir them into a sauce with the other ingredients people were working on. Following, my second job was to whisk the dough together with some eggs in order to create the dough for the noodles. This process may sound easy, but it is so tiring that everyone got a chance to do it. After the dough was made for the noodles, I had the opportunity to cut up the dough, and put it into the pasta machine. This machine was extraordinary, in that it elongated the dough into making it really thin. Then you needed to change the setting on the machine, in order for it to cut up the dough into noodles. We all had our tasks during this process of flouring the dough, cutting, turning the machine handle, and catching the noodles created from the pasta maker.
In the end, with all of us working together in the kitchen we created homemade pasta with a Bolognese sauce, a meat dish, and strudel. After slaving in the kitchen for this food, we sat down to a group dinner and enjoyed our creations.
This blog post not only made me hungry but also made me jealous! What an amazing opportunity to learn how to cook Italian food in Italy! I love to cook and also love Italian food, which made the post very interesting to me. I’m sure the hard work of making homemade pasta paid off! I like the way you were able describe the things you learned to do and what you did to help make the meal. Sounds like a great day and now you’ll always be able to cook a great Italian meal!
ReplyDeleteI did the cooking class too and I'm so glad I did this. I was a little hesitant at first and didn't want to waste my saturday in the kitchen. The experience was great, chef Andrea was such a good teacher. I plan on cooking all of these recipes when I go home, so I can show off to all of my family and friends!
ReplyDeleteI love this post- it has made me miss cooking so much! I have always wanted to take a cooking class and I am even more jealous that you were able to make authentic Italian food in the corresponding country. Homemade pasta has also always been really appealing to me. Whenever we go to a restaurant that has the homemade option I always make sure to order it! The fact that you got to make it yourself is really cool and I am sure even more delicious : ) If you agree that the process was exhausting I cannot imagine how a restaurant does it nightly. Hope you enjoyed your dish- you have inspired me to cook something delicious for dinner tonight!
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