Cooking Class

 

We went to a cooking class to learn to make pizza and gelato. The teacher was a man named Giorgio and he used to own a restaurant. The first thing we did was make Gelato. The first step was to measure out the ingredients: sugar, cream, egg yolks, milk, a pinch of salt, and a touch of vanilla for flavor. It really did not have a flavor but that was fine.

 Then we started working on the cat tongues. Cat tongues are a type of cookie in italy. In italian they are called lingue di gatto. The ingredients are: sugar, butter, flour, and egg whites. We used an icing bag to squeeze them into straight lines which made them look like cat tongues after they baked. This is why they have the name that they have. They tasted like sugar cookies.  They were really good with the plain gelato.

The next thing we made was pizza. We made a batch of dough but then Giorgio gave us some of the dough that he had already made because the dough needs to rest overnight to be really good.  We made our dough in the shape of a circle with a rolling pin and our hands. Once it was a circle we put some olive oil on the tray and pizzas in the tray.

 Next we made calzones. Or on an Italian menu for a pizza place that we went to, trousers. We used mozzarella and some people used prosciutto, a type of Italian meat. With our leftover dough we all made little shapes. I made a G and put it on top of my calzone. My mom tried to make a R but it fell on the floor. And I got to make the sauce for the calzones and the pizzas. Overall The food was yummy and I was named executive blender. :) :) :)