Last night Jeff and I had our first cooking class together at Sur La Table. It was an Essential Knife Skills class, which had me incredibly nervous. What if I was holding a knife wrong this entire time? (I kind of was.) What if I didn’t truly know how to mince, dice, slice, cube? What if everything I thought I knew about cooking just wasn’t true??
Luckily, I was not doing everything wrong. I wasn’t holding the knife QUITE right, and I do have a tendency to stick my thumb our farther than my fingers in the “claw” but other than that, I learned that I have a slight idea of what I’m doing.
Here is Jeff, chopping the tomato we had to peel and seed and dice. It’s called something fancy, but I didn’t write it down because I was peeling and seeding and dicing said tomato, and also because I had tomato juice all over me.
This was the final meal, using the ingredients we had cut! I loved learning about different knives, the importance of seeding and peeling tomatoes for sauce (ok, ok, Jeff, you were right), and the different cuts, especially how to segment an orange! Now I am an expert julienne-er, and have mastered dicing in even sizes!!
We’re taking another class this weekend, where we are cooking a date-night worthy meal, so I’ll let you know how that goes…and I hope to be able to take more pictures of that one, too!
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