Wednesday, March 16th
So for our cultural event this week, we got to participate in a cooking class!
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Photo Cred: Melisa
I have no clue what this is called |
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Photo Cred: Melisa
Tarta de Santiago |
In our cooking class, we all divided into two teams, there was a lot of us after all. I'm not really sure how many of us decided to go (its obligatory so we didn't actually decide) but there was the 9 from my program and then more from another program as well. Anyhoo I got stuck in the real food team. We had to start by chopping up onions so I being the kind person I am declined and just watched because I didn't want to chop up onions. Obviously I was avoiding the sting onions love to hand out but it didn't work because just about everyone got a little teary eyed. It made for some great jokes at the time though. I helped with the mussels and pulled them outta their shells. I had to cut off some barb like part on them but it was super easy and I went through it pretty fast. I only started getting burned towards the end because the water was so hot that the mussels were chilling in. Oh well though right? The other team was working on tartas de Santiago though. So to make this they used garbanzo beans as a weight to cook part of the crust so it was nice and pushed down, weird I know. And then they did a bunch of other stuff, I just know the garbanzo beans part because I was playing with the warm garbanzo beans while we waited for it to finish cooking. Then Steph and Morgue got the joy of cutting out the sword cross thing that is basically the symbol of Santiago, it may actually be the symbol but that would require I pay attention to know if that's true or not. Then they threw that guy on the tarta and powdered sugared the crap outta it.... like so much so the piece of tape couldn't be used to pull up the paper sword cross. It was hilarious. After that we got to eat all the yummy food. I wasn't a big fan of the tarta de santiago because of the texture. It had lemon peel in it so I'm sure that's what was making the texture grosslike. Other than that it was all wonderful and we had a wonderful time talking.
It was a great cultural event, but then I may have had an allergic reaction to one of those two things I ate and it wasn't so fun after that. So basically I may be allergic to mussels, almonds, or saffron but who knows because there was a lot of common allergy foods in that meal! #lyfewoo
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