ISCAHM Day 2
Day 2 of the Pasta & Risotto class I’m attending and so far, I’m enjoying every single bits of it, the time spent on cooking and munching on the food when the chef’s not looking ;)
So yesterday, we cooked 5 pasta dishes and 1 risotto dish with 6 different kinds of pasta doughs…
Dough:
- saffron
- squid ink/black
- spinach
- beetroot
- plain
- chocolate!!
Pasta & Risotto:
- Macaroni and Ham Gratin
- Mushroom and Spinach Raviolo alla Piemontese
- Fettuccine Alfredo
- Ham and Herb Stuffed Tortellini in Gorgonzola Cream Sauce
- Farfalle Pasta allo Scoglio
- Saffron Risotto
The first half of the session, the kitchen was just quiet. Everyone was chopping away whatever vegetables, ham or seafood that needed chopping.
The second half, we all got hands-on and dirty. With flour, I mean. Busy, busy, busy! Kneaded, sheeted, stuffed, shaped the pasta doughs…
Stuffed Tortellinis (Spinach Pasta Dough)
Bow-Tie Pasta (Beetroot and Squid Ink Pasta Dough)
Ravioli at the back (Saffron & Chocolate Pasta Dough) & Fettuccine (all kinds of doughs)
SECRET WEAPONS: you’ll see…
I can sense a pattern here.. Remember on my old post, Chef Uli also did this trick with slices of garlic bread… and now he used bread sticks. Now we know it’s from Chef Uli if it’s styled like this ;)
Farfalle Pasta allo Scoglio, aka Seafood Ragout, was the one dish that stood out among all prepared. Well, I personally liked the Tortellini but there were just so many ingredients used on this seafood dish that it was the tastiest. The clams were perfect and the bow-tie pasta colors were so cute! :)
What made me like this Macaroni & Ham Gratin was that we used Gruyere Cheese for its sauce. It had this tangy and salty flavors mixed with a little bit of the typical cheese smell, which a lot of people do not like, but I like it. It’s what makes the cheese, cheese!
We made a lot of Macaroni Gratin! 4 dishes of it and the little white polka-dotted blue dish is so cute!
Toxic morning, but it was all fun and scrumptious. Got to take home a lot of food this time; I was prepared, I brought a lot of food containers xD Next Saturday again for the third and last session, I will miss this class therefore I will spend my time cooking and baking more! :D
This all happened in the morning just in time for lunch time, hold on to those spatulas and knives for more baking adventures that happened on the same day but on the evening. Chocolate Pull-Apart Bread and Ginger Cookies soon! :)
