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Cooking Class - NYC Series - G Hamilton

Well, it's now the end of August and my 30 week French cooking class ended back in May. I admit, I missed cooking every week with a really great group of people but the good news is I'm taking another cooking series. In this 12 week class, we're going to be looking at 6 chefs from NY and also working from a book written about the different boroughs of NY by an author from Ohio. I was pleased to see several people from the 30 week class so there's familiar faces and there's 12 people in the class instead of 10 which makes for a large group. The first chef is Gabrielle Hamilton. We made several dishes as usual. The first was fried oyster omelettes with a tabasco slurry and tartar sauce. It was a strange combination of flavors, I must admit. Most of students either didn't care for it or loved it. The fried oysters tucked into an omelette was fine but the tartar sauce got really salty from the cornichons and the tabasco slurry was just well.... weird. The slur...

Soup!

Over the last few weeks of cooking class we've been learning how to make different stocks, binding of sauces and of course soup! We made 6 six soups last week and I got pictures of 4 of them below. We also made a salad with dressing and homemade butter to add to our bread. We made a potato leek and a celery soup... and a spicy vegetable soup with pesto.. ... and a parsnip and pear soup with apple cider reduction. We also made a french onion and cauliflower soup which I didn't get pictures of. I've learned already after just 4 weeks of class to not eat breakfast (or very little) on Tuesdays. All of the soups were really good and I'm looking forward to more classes.