This entry was posted on 8/12/2007 8:45 PM and is filed under Mexico.
A
quick taxi ride away - only 20 pesos ($2) for 5 of us to share the cab
- was Kris Rudolph's home and cooking school, "La Cocina". She is a very talented and
creative American who came here 20 years ago and organizes cooking tours of Mexico and Italy. She also owns a local restaurant called "El Buen Café. Her tours can be found on www.mexicocooks.com We settled into her
large comfortable kitchen and got to work on today's menu...
Agua de Jamaica (Hibiscus juice) Tomatillo Salsa Chile Pasilla Salsa (Salsa Negra) Quesadillas con Flores de Calabacitas Guacamole Morenitas con Chipotle Frambuesa (Raspberry Chipotle Brownies)
We
learned to use a molcajete for hand mixing the guacamole and salsa and
a comal to dry roast tomatillos, chilies and garlic.
Here's Joss on the molcajete...
Dueling Molcajetes with Christian and Keith...
Bowie chopping the chilies so finely...
Making guacamole...
Guacamole and Roasted Tomatillo Salsa...
Mari washing the flores de calabacitas (zucchini flowers)...
Mindy on the tortilla maker putting together a Quesadilla con Flores de Calabacitas....
It's all cooking...
Then we feasted
like kings and queens...
Back to the casa for Joss and Evelyn's Spanish class with Maria Theresa. We worked on learning
how to pronounce the vowels and practiced our elementary conversational
skills.
Evening time was R & R for the Pods and the New
Yorkers while the kids explored "the Jardin" (the main square) and unexpectedly ran into Alex, a friend of
Joss' from Berkeley.
