Cooking in Tuscany

Having rested the previous day, we woke up excited the next day to go to our cooking class that we had booked.  Noa, her sister and I were going, and it was advertised to be a whole day affair.  Noa found the class by googling online, and by the description we were sold. !!—Beware.  please eat before seeing this post. —!! So that morning, we took the car up to Cortona to meet in the square there in order to meet the group and our…

Challa

Noa and I asked her grandma to let us help/mostly watch her make the weekly Challa bread one weekend.  she graciously said she would wait to make it later in the morning, so that we could come over and watch. as soon as we got there, we got the yeast started.  one of the types of yeast they have here is a wet clay looking yeast. [flickr id=”8572239366″ thumbnail=”large” overlay=”false” size=”large” group=”” align=”none”] [flickr id=”8571145443″ thumbnail=”large” overlay=”false” size=”large” group=”” align=”none”] once the yeast was added…

Cheese Making

Well, for our anniversary this year, noa and i decided to take a cheese making course. It was offered by a cheese maker who lives on Mayne Island, yes, its a real island in the gulf islands, i have never heard of it either. Every once in a while he offers class at UBC, and we had been talking about learning how to make cheese for a while, so we went. The class was 4.5 hours long, and we learned how to make Yoghurt cheese,…