Cooking Class

This blog is getting tougher and tougher to catch up with!! Too much to do with too little time!

This weekend was awesome- it was just very relaxing but I still did so much!!

Friday I had to call out of work because I signed up for a cooking class!! I had miss the one the week before cause it was my first day at my internship. I heard the class was amazing and we got to bring home so much food!

So we all met at IES and walked down M.T. Alvear til about Montevideo. It was an actual cooking school!

It was so much fun! We split up into groups and cut up tomatoes, onions, peppers, potatoes, green onions and put all the vegetables in a pan with beef (obviously). This was all for the empanadas we were making.

Then in another pan we put some vegetables in with choclo (corn) for the corn empanadas!

It was nice but we honestly didn't know what we were doing. And I really didn't know many people that signed up for that day so I was a little awkward chica the entire time.

FUN FACT: Did you know that there's no direct translation for the word "awkward"? They have "strange" and "weird" but not "awkward". Same with the word "fuck". They don't have a curse word that can be used as a verb (both transitive and intransitive, active and passive), an adverb, a noun, an adjective, or a word that can be inserted into other words (abso-fucking-lutely).

After everything was cooked we rolled the empanadas!! Luckily we all learned how to do it at the Argentine Experience in the beginning of the semester cause he didn't even explain it! It's tough to roll an empanada like a native Argentine!!

After we rolled probably 10 empanadas each, the teachers took them away to bake in the oven and some they fried. 

That's when they brought out the steaks-holy crap. They brought out 12 gigantic steaks for us to cook up. Then they took them away and put them in the oven for a bit.

We then made dessert!!!! The first was a pastry with membrilla (which is some random fruit that I've never seen in the states. It kinda looks like a huge pair). It was a piece of membrilla wrapped in a pastry dough then fried... DELICIOUS!!! 

Then we made a dessert with a layer of pita type bread, dulce de leche, another layer of bread, another layer of dulce de leche, another layer of bread, then marshmallow meringue... YUMM!!!!

One of the teachers also said he was making sweet potatoes... Apparently the Argentine version of sweet potatoes is mashed regular potatoes with a sugary creme sauce mixed in... holy crap it was good though.

This is all the food I brought home... I'm basically set for the next week.

Yup... I got a certificate too :)

Can't wait to make empanadas with my roommates in the states next semester!! 

Chau chicos!