Did you think that travelling to China meant that I could stop my goal of 365 recipes? No way.
Today we had some tours that you could choose from and the one I picked was a culinary tour. It was a lot of fun and I'm glad I did it. First we were picked up at the hotel and driven over to a local market. They had all sorts of stuff, meat, pork, strange animal parts, whole chickens,
unidentifiable fish, ridiculously large vegetables, an an entire stand for tofu. We picked up the
stuff we needed to make our recipe (Shanghai Wontons) and headed over to this kitchen area.
There were some professional chefs there to help teach us how to do it. There were actually two
teams, mine which made the wontons and another team that made Black-Pepper Beef Fried Rice. The chef demonstrated how to cut the tofu, mushrooms, and bok choy, and then we did it for ourselves. We mixed in the pork then started stuffing the dumplings. The chef could do them in 5 seconds but it took us a lot longer, and most of our's looked uneven compared to her's, which were amazing. Next we boiled them and tried them out. I attached a picture of one of them served on top of the other group's rice, along with my certificate of completion.
On another note, this made me think it would be a great idea to have a cuban cooking class that we could teach. This lady has a really small business that looks like it's doing well. Get connected with some small tour companies or cruise ships or whatever, have people in for 3 hours and make rice & black beans, bistec, fried plantains and a mojito and charge them $50 for the lesson and the food. We could be millionaires. Anyway, back to the recipe.
Notes: The meat market here looks a bit different from that of Publix.
Make again : Sure, especially since they gave us a recipe book to take away with both recipes in it.
3 comments:
Let me tell you, I'd love to find a new career! I told you...we should open a restaurant. I'd leave teaching in a heartbeat! Especially with all the nonsense that's going on now.
Do you think the guy you do those parties with would be interested in offering a "Learn to cook Cuban food" night with some of his people? Might be a good way to get started. We really could do a night where we teach people to cook rice, black beans, bistec and fried plantains for 3 hours or so and charge a good amount and make some nice money that way.
He's kind of a mess. It doesn't seem like he's open to new things. We'd have to fend for ourselves. It would have to stem from a website or something. I don't know. A catering/lesson website. Where we could cater a party or teach a lesson or whatever. He's kind of an (how should I say this as nice as possible) idiot. There...I've said it! Ha ha
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