I have a break

WHAT A SUMMER.
I have been teaching my cooking class here in
 Utah for most of the summer and I finally get a little breathing room until I start again in mid-Sept.

The roll was low, but what do you expect this time of year. People on vacation etc....

Let's see, what did I teach them anyway..lol..oh yeah, We did Thailand for 4 weeks and then we shuffled over to Germany where we made Peach Strudel and some dishes from "East" Germany and Homemade Spatzle with Braised Red Cabbage and Jaeger Schnitzel. Man was that good.

We finished up with Southern preparing Jambalaya and Chicken Creole with Collard Greens and Bacon. Then we made a homemade Biscuit Chili Bowl. Now that was good. You make a batch of biscuits, but you form the dough over the bottom of a muffin tin to form the bowl. Of course you add a shredded Cheddar to the dough. Then you make the homemade chili and Boom, you eat.

My next class in the fall is going to be Gluten-Free baking etc...since there is a high volume of Celiac here in St. George.

That will be followed up by Appetizers and Desserts from around the World.
What a busy Fall this is going to be. Next year I think I will take them on Culinary Adventure to India and introduce them to Curries and the like.

There just aren't any stores that carry Indian ingredients, but that's what the internet is for.
That's only for 4 weeks and then we go other places.

Oh, I have a tip for everyone. We were making Shrimp Boulettes in class and you have to put chopped raw onions and potatoes into a blender or food processor to mush it so you can fry them (after you add the egg and flour and some other stuff, of course)but the stuff spun off to the side all the time in the blender. So I decided to do what everyone warns you not to do, yep, put a wooden spoon in there to stir it up while the blades are moving.
I tried to pulse and stir in a rhythm where I pulsed, stopped, stir, pulsed, stopped, stir, you get the idea. I tried speeding it up, but my timing was a bit off and the spoon hit the moving blade, kicked the spoon out and a good portion of this mush went flying through the air (without a trapeze) landing in splats on the floor, ceiling and in my hair...LOL...what a mess....that'll teach me to listen to warnings LMAO...anyway, we all survived.

Until next time little ones it's off to the kitchen to see what kind of trouble I can start. Maybe I'll have an oil fire..just kidding..
Later
Hal