An impulse buy from the roadside.Luckily, our B&B hosts agreed to take us on a cooking class! (They generally run classes with booking in advance, not when one of the guests has a sudden urge for mushrooms upon buying mushrooms from the roadside!)
The class is ran in an informal setting, which makes it even better!
Now, our hosts are no ordinarily home cooks. Both of them used to be professionals. They have the outfit and the diploma to match their style! :)
The 'chef de cuisine' was quick to check his ingredients. This chef automatically demotes everyone else to sous-chef. I am satisfied. Sous-chef sounds good enough to me! hahaha
I then start learning to roll a pasta dough under the guidance of the lady chef...
, while SP helps out in cutting and slicing! It was a lot of work, but the chef de cuisine reckons SP is pretty quick. Good enough for the kitchen, perhaps? haha
Meanwhile, I was having my hands full (literally) with fresh pasta!
It is not as easy as it looks.
But the end results were beautiful display of fresh pasta. (And I don't want anyone commenting on the differences in length of the pasta!!!)
The head chef's mother, which is the REALLY good chef in the house, dropped by and showed us her day's finds of porcini. She even shared one with us! The head chef quickly turned it into a salad.
Then the chef started the cooking. SP was allowed to watch, but every time SP turns around, the chef put some secret ingredients into his cooking! hehehe.. no, we were not going learn any secrets of the trade!
While the men are in the kitchen, the table was set and good wine was poured!
Then, just as we were ready, lunch is served!
Mushrooms on toasts. This type of mushroom is very woody.
The second course was the pasta with the mushrooms. The pasta was sooooo good. It makes me realise how good fresh pasta can be. Of course, the taste was good too!Meanwhile, back in UK, it is unlikely that I will make the pasta at home. I think the closest thing I get to buying them semi-fresh from a deli :(
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