On Saturday June 18th, I was really excited. I was starting the second Home Fries cooking class.
The chef for the class was Justin Rakes, the chef at Durham’s Four Square. Today’s lesson was making pasta and tomato sauce and using leftovers.
We washed our hands, wrote our names on our cups and utensils, and each got our own recipe instructions. Then we started making pasta. The first step was learning the ingredients. Next was mixing flour and salt – we made a well of the dry ingredients and then cracked the egg in. The egg we used had a double yolk! We found out that the pasta we made needed to rest, then “magically” we had more pasta dough that was rested and ready to go. We all got a turn to roll out the pasta in the pasta machine, which I thought was one of the most fun parts. Then we split into two groups, one group started making tomato sauce, the other group cut pasta. We cut out noodles and little pasta called Orecchiette, in English that means “little ear”. We boiled the pasta, which we learned cooks faster than dry pasta and cooked the tomato sauce. We learned that if you make an X in the skin on the tomatoes then boil them for 10 seconds that the skins are easy to take off.
We ate our work and then we took the left over tomato sauce – put cream in it, took a hand mixer & blended it up… and then had Creamy Tomato Soup with toast and goat cheese. After we finished eating and cleaning up we got to check out some cookbooks that we could keep until our next lesson. I got out a book called, “Anyone Can Cook.” I had a lot of fun learning how to make pasta; I can’t wait to make it at home!
Contributed by Cordelia
A big thank you from the Durham Home Fries Cookin' Team to Chefs Justin Rakes & Scott Martin of Four Square Restaurant in Durham! www.foursquarerestaurant.com
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