A year of Gastronomy

OH le mie mani facenti male

Which roughly translates to 'Oh my aching hands'.

This week we covered two regions in Italian, Apulia(Puglia) and Tuscany.
Chef Roberta is really quite an interesting and amazing woman.  She lived in Italy for many years as child and then returned back to sit Political Science in Tuscany studying in Italian, since her early days there she has returned back to each of the regions, some many times.  Each of morning lectures is also accompanied by many off side stories and tales of her travels, it is always interesting but makes for a long lecture before we even hit the kitchen.

My new house

Be careful! 
That box has glass!
Just step over that pile of newspaper.
Here, *cleans couch off*, sit down.  I'm still unpacking.

Some of you may already know that Brian has decided to leave the culinary adventure we started in January.  This means he also has decided to change the content of Out of the Frying Pan to be more a food blog of his own and I will now stake my claim over here.
It will take me some time to upload all the old entries and photos, fix all the links, spiff things up, dust and polish and make it a worthy repository for my thoughts on culinary school.
I promise to start catching you up on cooking with Roberta the owner of the school and our recent slog through Italy region by yummy region and the results of our midyear practicum and test.
In the meantime, have patience, like slow food and the best wines, all good things take time.
I hope you'll come back for more.

jo

PFP II

As Brian is furiously baking and whipping up a storm at Big Red House, I am over here at little rainsoaked house baking and whipping up my own storm.  It's a damn good thing it rained all weekend because if it hadn't I'd have been out in the garden  and digging my patio and not in here cooking like I should be.  Sadly, making mud pies doesn't count.
Let's review my practice items.