The five girls in the house decided to participate in a cooking class last weekend, at the Choco Museo. We arrived at 5pm, and went with our chef to the market where we bought all of our ingredients. Then we went back to the kitchen and learned how to prepare a salad, a chicken dish, and pisco sours. The chef treated us to chocolate fondue at the end of class, with fruit we had chosen at the market.
My first cooking class with Ms. Ela detailed how to make pierogis, and something similar to tortellini that is put in soup. She began by teaching me how to make the filling using a grinder to puree both mushrooms and meat. Then we made dough, and she showed me how to form the dumplings. We cooked a few to make sure that they tasted okay, and then froze the rest for Christmas Eve and Christmas dinner.
There is so much going on here regarding food that I need to break it down into parts. This is part one, aka, the first 3 days. I have eaten Pierogi, Kotlet Schabbowy, Zapiekanki, Rosół, and Zupa Grzybówa and so much more. The most significant things to mention are that they only eat twice a day. Breakfast is light, and lunch/dinner is heavier. The most interesting part is that the “dinner” meal always starts with a soup, ALWAYS. And then there is a meat and potatoes course. Most likely there is a salad too. They don’t drink at dinner, not even water, except every once in a while, and there is usually coffee or tea at night too. My “breakfasts” have included soft-boiled eggs, scrambled eggs, grilled cheese, and coffee/hot chocolate. My dinners have translated into cream of mushroom soup, pumpkin soup, chicken noodle, and vegeable; along with, fried porkchop, potatoe dumplings, chicken with onions, and pork loin. Sides have included variations of saurkraut, boiled potatoes, and other vegetables. Overall, I have been extremely impressed with the food, and could eat it all day long. But then again that is commonly my problem in Europe.
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