While here in Siena I have been taking a weekly cooking class with an adorable woman named Elisabetta. There are four of us in the class and every wednesday after class we head over to her kitchen. Adornded with aprons we begin the process to create a typical 3 course Tuscan meal. Throughout our five classes we have learned how to make several pasta dishes (including actually making homemade pasta), sauces, meat dishes and several delicious desserts. Elisabetta has us help her chop vegetables, grind nutmeg, stir sauces and even peel grapes. Usually we are all starving and just want to lick the bowl while we are still making the cake or tiramisu but alas we resort to simply gnawing on a piece of bread and sipping on white wine. My favorite part was making the pasta.
No bowls or utensils were involved, simply a mound of flour with an egg in the middle and then you mix it together with your hands. After this has become a dough like substance, we ran it through the pasta machine several times until it comes out pasta! Amazing. After laboring over the dishes we finally get to enjoy all the food. We all sit around the table, sometimes accompained by Elisabetta's husband or daughter, and eat our way through the first, second and third courses all with some excellent red wine and italian converstaion. Elisabetta is sure to make sure we don't go hungry which means we finish most all of the food and defintely all the dessert. We happily wave goodbye as we make the steep climb back into town, with protruding but happy stomachs.
Unfortunately we have no more classes but Elisabetta enjoyed us so much that she invited us to have a party at her own house ina few weeks and I promptly requested we make tiramisu again. Can't wait.
While here in Siena I have been taking a weekly cooking class with an adorable woman named Elisabetta. There are four of us in the class and every wednesday after class we head over to her kitchen. Adornded with aprons we begin the process to create a typical 3 course Tuscan meal. Throughout our five classes we have learned how to make several pasta dishes (including actually making homemade pasta), sauces, meat dishes and several delicious desserts. Elisabetta has us help her chop vegetables, grind nutmeg, stir sauces and even peel grapes. Usually we are all starving and just want to lick the bowl while we are still making the cake or tiramisu but alas we resort to simply gnawing on a piece of bread and sipping on white wine. My favorite part was making the pasta. 
No bowls or utensils were involved, simply a mound of flour with an egg in the middle and then you mix it together with your hands. After this has become a dough like substance, we ran it through the pasta machine several times until it comes out pasta! Amazing. After laboring over the dishes we finally get to enjoy all the food. We all sit around the table, sometimes accompained by Elisabetta's husband or daughter, and eat our way through the first, second and third courses all with some excellent red wine and italian converstaion. Elisabetta is sure to make sure we don't go hungry which means we finish most all of the food and defintely all the dessert. We happily wave goodbye as we make the steep climb back into town, with protruding but happy stomachs. 
Unfortunately we have no more classes but Elisabetta enjoyed us so much that she invited us to have a party at her own house ina few weeks and I promptly requested we make tiramisu again. Can't wait.
STEPHY. You are adorable. Miss you
ReplyDeletewhat ever that is in the last picture looks killer good. i think its tiramisu and i think that you should bring some of that home to me :). That sounds like a class i would really enjoy glad you are having fun.
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