Cooking lessons, I'd like to teach _____
First, if you could teach a cooking class (paid or unpaid), what food topic or technique would you choose? Second, what one person would you like to share your cooking expertize with----say a child or SO or best friend? What food related skill (besides eating--ha) do you want to be remembered for?
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10 Comments:
I'd like the teach improvisation. I think this is one of the most important cooking techniques, I also think it is one of the main difference between people who love to cook and people who can't stand it. Too many others think they have to follow a recipe religiously and become disengaged from the fun of cooking become of it.
The person I'd like to share my cooking skills with is my sister, she's got to be the most unenthusiastic person in the kitchen and I'd love to show her how much fun it could be.
The skills I'd like to be remembered for relates back to the improvisation: being able to individualize a recipe.
Cheyanne at 7:33AM on 11/15/07
If I had to pick only one, it would be how to make a proper tomato sauce. The first thing I'd do is throw the sugar bowl right out the window. I think I'd have a captive audience after that.
chiff0nade at 8:04AM on 11/15/07
@chiff oh that was funny.
I teach anyone and everyone. I have helped neighbors and friends.
My mother usually calls me when she plans menus.
The hubby is a skilled cook after years in my kitchen. He can duplicate my tomato sauce with ease. I love that man.
JerzeeTomato at 8:49AM on 11/15/07
Well, I've taught a couple and gone to many, and I'd like to teach the people in the class to be quiet! Maybe it's just a local habit, but I really am bothered by folks who sign up and then sit there and discuss what their daughter's baby shower schedule is. I'm trying to hear what the teacher is saying and they're yakking. When I have taught, I've had to stifle the old urge to stop and wait until they get done, and then say, "Would you like to share that with the rest of the class?" (Lots of teachers in my family; maybe it's genetic.)
lemons at 10:15AM on 11/15/07
I would like to have a kitchen on a farm site to teach CSA participants how to cook all the new and different vegetables that they find in the bags. The focus would be on basics of how to cook everything, so that they are prepared to create dishes as needed based on the ingredients available. This is the biggest obstacle to eating local, deciding what to cook based on what is available. I most like teaching my child to cook. She is only two and is quite proud of her scrambled eggs. I figure by age 12, she'll be a better cook than I am, and I'm good with that!
ExpatChef at 11:26AM on 11/15/07
the world to sing in perfect harmony...
Kbear919 at 11:54AM on 11/15/07
I would love to teach a gluten free cooking class. My two sons and I have celiac and we have some wonderful dishes that we have created and I would love to share them.
Lynx4 at 12:56PM on 11/15/07
I have taught ... and used that technique. It's harsh on the noisy student but the rest of the class will thank you for it. IMHO any teacher who does not command that sort of attention is cheating the serious students of what they paid for. I don't mind side-chatter after the lecture portion of the class, but I don't permit it during that time. I don't try to stop a single comment, but if they are frequent or prolonged, I will look at the student and wait for them to finish speaking. Usually, so will the rest of the class.
I have sat through a couple programming classes where my complaint to the teacher about such conversation was met with 'try sitting closer to the front'.
Wrong answer.
BillinDetroit at 1:39PM on 11/15/07
I think I'd like to teach bread baking for children. I don't think people realize how therapeutic it is to bake bread....the process of mixing and kneading and baking to make life's most basic food. So many adults are afraid of baking with yeast that they really miss out on one of life's greatest pleasures.....the smell of freshly baked bread and the knowledge that you, yourself, created that. I think it would be great to impart that knowledge to kids and teach them a skill that would serve them well their whole life through.
elderberry44 at 2:53PM on 11/15/07
A course on how to make creme brulee! It's the only thing I know how to do :)
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Chew on That at 7:22PM on 11/15/07