Culinary Class

Joshua and I got the chance to spend ten days away in late May/early June. The first part of our trip took us to Oklahoma City. Joshua had some annual meetings to attend, and the spouses were invited along for some fun! His company treated us to a fancy dinner along the river, a spa getaway and our choice of daytime excursion. We chose to go to a cooking class at Trattoria Il Centro in Bricktown. It was soooo much fun!

One of the best parts of our cooking class was that Joshua's good friend from work and his wife went with us! Carter named them Mr. and Mrs. Curvy a long time ago (a close toddler mispronunciation of their true last name) and it's stuck so may I introduce our dear friends, the Curvys, all dolled up with us in our aprons...ready to rock the culinary world!

The first thing we learned was how to make pasta from scratch. So here's Joshua starting to massage the eggs into the semolina and flour...

Mrs. Curvy getting a tad bit goey in the process...

Mr. Curvy jumped in to help...the guys almost have it ready to be put through the pasta machine.

Say "pasta!" :-)

I got sidetracked and didn't take any pics of the finished product, but we learned how to properly run the pasta dough through the pasta machine and then how to make raviolis and tortellinis. It was sooo much fun to make and really easy. We are currently in the market for a pasta machine so we can enjoy this at home with the monkeys!

Then we got to learn how to make fresh mozzarella. THAT was fun and interesting! Here's Joshua stretching out the cheese over and over again, before you then make it into the mushroom cap shaped balls that you see in the grocery store.