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Cooking Class - NYC Series - Amanda Cohen

Our next two cooking classes features recipes from Amanda Cohen and are all vegetarian. All of these recipes were labor fairly labor intensive. For example, our instructor, worked on drying out some zucchini for over 24 hours to prep one dish for the class as well as some others. So needless to say, we wouldn't have been able to get everything done in one 3 hour class session if we had to do all the work. We made several dishes as usual which included parsnip gnocchi with sour red cabbage and carrot crumbs, portabello mousse with pear and fennel compote, smoked sweet potato nicoise salad with chickpea dressing, butternut squash soup with butternut dumplings, Knishes, zucchini ginger cake with zucchini cream and zucchini candy with cinnamon caramel and cream cheese ice cream and the cocktail of the class was Kentucky Lemonade. This menu was really good but fairly difficult unless done in stages or unless you have 1/2 a day free to cook. For example, the parsnips needed 2 hours...

Cooking Class - NYC Series - April Bloomfield

Our next chef we're studying is April Bloomfield. We cooked a lot of dishes once again and we liked all of them. In this class we made Devils on Horseback, a curried parsnip soup, bitter leaves with pomegranate and grilled vegetable vinaigrette, swiss chard cannelloni with fresh pasta, swiss chard with marjoram, butternut squash polenta, roasted mushrooms with pancetta, pine nuts, croutons and goat cheese and for dessert we made a sweet corn ice cream with butterscotch and caramel popcorn. I had never heard of Devils on Horseback and not sure how that name came about which is probably a pretty interesting story. These little guys are an appetizer of poached pears, prunes all wrapped in bacon. Yeah, they're sweet, salty, smokey and a little fruity tasting so you know they're good.  I think what everyone loved the most was the swiss chard cannelloni. The fresh pasta took a while to make but I would probably use the dried large shell or cannelloni shaped pasta and call...