Cooking Class

On Saturday night we went to a prison workhouse to cook a meal.  I now think I know what prison must have been like for Martha Stewart.

Lucky for us, though, the prison workhouse is not part of an active prison.  It's part of an old prison that has now been converted to a center for fine arts, including culinary arts.

We attended a two-hour class for couples which included an introduction to knife skills.

Neither of us are chopping like Mario Batali yet, but we're certainly better than before we took the class.

During the class we made drinks, a warm vegetable salad with balsamic glaze, gazpacho, bruschetta pasta, and roasted peaches.  The main dishes that J and I worked on were the gazpacho and pasta.

Our favorite dishes were the pasta and the dessert - both were delicious!  In fact, we're planning to make the pasta at home later this week.

So that's our story about the time we cooked a meal in prison.