Tapas!

I spent Wednesday night at a cooking class at Wild Serendipity Foods.

The class was called Tantalizing Tapas and the menu consisted of: Chicken and Chorizo Empanadas, Bread with Mushrooms and Alioli, Patatas Bravas, Pan-Roasted Shrimp with Garlic and Sangria.

The classes are taught by owner, Michelle Zimmer (check out her blog).

Michelle demonstrated a few things, like making the elusive pastry (which I can never manage to get right) and the Alioli sauce. We were quickly set loose in the very large commercial kitchen to work on our assigned tasks:

This is the Chicken and Chorizo mixture that will be used in the Empanadas.

We used Yukon Gold Potatoes for the Patatas Bravas (which is just a fancy title for: crispy potatoes in tomato sauce). The potatoes coming out of the oven were such a beautiful golden color.

This is the Tomato Sauce that will be poured onto the potatoes:

Check out those diced onions (diced by yours truly) (also stirred with love by yours truly)

Michelle is demonstrating how to make our empanadas.

The making of the Alioli Sauce which did not "break". Michelle is such a pro in the kitchen.

Mixing up Sangria.

The Emapanadas, ready for the oven.

The best part of the evening was sitting down and eating.

The Pan-Roasted Shrimp with Garlic and the Patatas Bravas. Simply delicious.

Bread with Mushroom and Alioli. This was my very favorite. I can't even begin to tell you how wonderful this was. Lets just say that I had seconds, and I don't even like mushrooms.

The cooking class was very hands-on and a whole lot of fun. I had such a great night and met some very fun and nice people. I can't wait to sign up for some more classes.

~b~