Cooking class

 Finally our day of rest….but we’re doing a cooking class today. Alexis,Kylie, Janet,Lial and myself will be cooking. Nick said he had errands to run.(errands in Italy?) just kidding, he has to gas up the cars. He will be joining us for the eating portion of the class. 

We enter the kitchen, oh my, so gorgeous and Linda, our chef, said everything you see is from the gardens on the grounds. 

We are all given aprons to put on, which we get to keep! We will be making tempura. You may think we will be doing veggies, nope, we will be doing zucchini, sliced thin, zucchini flowers and sage leaves. Oh my, the tempura is so light and wou ever thought sage leaves would taste so good. 

Next we started making our biscotti! We decided on almond and chocolate. Oh my gosh the delicious chunks of chocolate we chopped up to put in our dough. This biscotti recipe is way easier than the one I have at home. I’ll be making this a lot more. Great gift idea!

Moving in to making dough for the ravioli. Well I sure learned a lot making this dough. She uses half all purpose flour and half semolina flour. Interesting huh? What a different texture. That gets put aside until we make our filling for the ravioli. Filling made, Now, to the pasta machine. 

I’m sure you get the idea. Below is what we made and ended up eating!

Tempura, ravioli with ricotta and spinach topped with fresh tomato sauce, pork fillet,vegestable gratin with besciamella and 

Biscotti!

We had so much fun with chef Linda and her assistants and we learned a lot about making pasta and different noodles. She even told us how to store and freeze our noodles. 

If you ever come to Italy for a visit and have a chance to take a cooking class, do it. It’s a great experience, we even got a diploma! 

Mangia and Salute!