Monday, February 06, 2023

Cooking Date Day

On Friday night in the midst of the polar vortex, we went to a Couples Cooking Class at Culinara in Vienna. We arrived early and tried walking around Vienna a bit, but froze almost immediately and took shelter in a Dunkin' Donuts (my first time ever inside a Dunkin' Donuts). In search of a snack to warm me up, I tried these weird Egg Bites, made of egg and cheese but shaped like a doughnut. I was not impressed. They should have been called "doughnots".

The cooking class took place in a warm, bustling teaching kitchen with 6 couples and numerous assistants helping the instructing chef. It was soup night (and the perfect night for soup!) and each couple chose 2 soups from the list of 12 to create. We chose Barley Mushroom Soup and Lentil Sausage Soup.

After a few quick knife skill demonstrations, we went to work prepping our vegetables and dropping them in the pot. By virtue of the fact that both of our soups had grains or beans that needed lots of cook time, we were the last to finish with each soup. We also learned that we greatly underuse salt and don't need to shy away from it as much.

As the soups finished cooking, the assistants doled out sample cups so everyone could try them. Every soup was good, from the Manhattan Clam Chowder to the Hot and Sour soup. However, by the 9th soup of 12, I had to tap out and only took little spoonfuls of the remainder. I had so much soup that night that my pores radiated chicken broth for the next 24 hours.

Overall it was a fun, atypical date night that ended with some recipes that we might actually make (starting next week when we're no longer sick of soup). I also appreciated that each recipe relied mostly on the ingredients put in the pot rather than painstakingly figuring out proportions of different spices.

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