I signed up for cooking classes

**New-mom-to-be** · 01-18-2009, 12:39 PM

in order to make more meals from scratch. I get 10 lessons for 200 dollars and I figure if this means I make more stuff at home, it will pay for itself in a few months.

My first class was on Italian food. We learned to make meatballs, ravioli, manicotti, 3 kinds of sauces, and minestroni soup.

So yesterday, I took the meat ball recipe and took out the italian spices and added onion, bell pepper, and mushrooms and made 200 chicken breast meatballs.

I broke them down into 10 packages of 20 and froze them. I can now just take them out of the freezer and add them to an Italian sauce, an Indian sauce, or a Asian and heat up some rice or pasta and have a meal in as much time as it takes me to heat the Bertolli meals.

Next weeks class is on Thai cooking. I hope to learn to make pad thai.

**homesteadmamma** · 01-18-2009, 12:47 PM

Sounds like a great class to learn to cook. Oooh learning to do Thai cooking will be awesome.

**nancycg56** · 01-18-2009, 12:51 PM

Sounds great!!!!

**Laurie in Bradenton** · 01-18-2009, 12:53 PM

Keep us posted on each of your classes, please. Is it offered throught a grocery store, college, gas company or other. I remember 100 years ago when I was young and took cooking classes from the local gas company. You went one evening a week and at the end you got a cookbook. Best of all it was free! But there wasn't a variety of styles. Just basic stuff.

Laurie in Bradenton

**redeme** · 01-18-2009, 01:15 PM

Wow! That sounds really nice. Please share what your learning each week and how it works out when you repeat them at home.

**annertak** · 01-18-2009, 04:03 PM

It sounds like you learned a lot in your first class! How cool!

**Buc-O-Mama** · 01-19-2009, 12:29 PM

Great to hear that you are applying what you learned. I'm a cooking school instructor and your post made me feel all warm inside

**Contrary Housewife** · 01-19-2009, 12:47 PM

10 classes for $200! Wow, around here it costs $50-60+ per 3 hour class. I've taken a few to expand my skills, but wow, for 10/$200 I would be all over that.

Would love to see the chicken meatball recipe. :

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**beks37** · 01-19-2009, 12:51 PM

I would love to go to a cooking class. It sounds like something I could benefit from. I don't know of any in my area though. Sounds like you are learning and using what you have learned.