something different

I went out and did something fun last night! I took an appetizer and martini cooking class. It was great. I love to cook and love learning new recipes-- especially delicious ones! It was great to have a distraction while time seems to stand still.

The menu:
Olive bruschetta with a peachy-champagne martini
Smoked chicken salad wrapped in a lettuce leaf with a chili-lime martini
Mushroom/phyllo triangles with a citrus martini
Shrimp spring rolls with a passion fruit martini

Kitchen gadgets I now want:
A stove top smoker
A julienne peeler - this was the awesome! It was so easy to get carrots into these perfect little strips with one motion.

Comments

  1. MelissaJanuary 24, 2009 at 11:15 AM

    That sounds awesome. I am kinda a picky eater, so the food I probably wouldn't have eaten. But, martinis here I come!!! That sounds really like a lot of fun. My girlfriends and I always talk about taking different classes like that (wine tasting, etc.) and never do it. Maybe we should make that our New Years Resolutions. :0) Glad you had fun!

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  2. KJanuary 25, 2009 at 5:40 AM

    SOunds like fun, I really want to take a cooking class. I thin i am going to look for one in my area.
    ICLW

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  3. notsofertilemyrtleJanuary 25, 2009 at 7:01 AM

    What fun! Sounds yummy.

    Happy ICLW!

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  4. 'Murgdan'January 25, 2009 at 12:03 PM

    Oooooohhhhh. That all sounds yummy! By the end of the appetizers/martinis I think I'd be full and drunk and entirely satisfied!

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  5. MichelleJanuary 25, 2009 at 12:06 PM

    Wow that sounds so good and like a lot of fun.

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