Chefs Dernick

Joy's BFF (also known as Nandita by others) gave her a cooking class gift certificate for her birthday last year.  (Isn't that such a cool gift idea?)  Anyways, we've been wanting to go check out one of the classes but just never got around to it.  Since the gift certificate was about to expire, Joy decided to plan our November date night at Well-Done cooking class.  We've never been to a real cooking class nor are we great cooks, so we were a little nervous.  Not nervous because we'd embarrass ourselves (well, maybe just a little), but because we were told we would be eating the food we make... no pre-made foods for mess ups.  So, we could have just paid lots of money for a lousy dinner, with no one else to blame but ourselves.
Turns out, the cooking class was a lot of fun!  We picked a three course dinner class, with steak as the main course.  There were 16 other students and we all cooked in groups of four.  We actually learned quite a few tips and highly recommend this class.  (http://www.welldonecc.com/index.aspx)  Thanks BFF for the fun class!

Getting ready to start our class.

Lesson #1:  Burn the bell pepper..."Umm, are you sure you want us to 'burn' it all black?"

 

 1st Course:  Carrots and Cheese Soup.  Very yummy!

 2nd Course:  Pesto Mashed Potato.  Looks funny, but tastes yummy.

2nd Course:  NY Strip Steak.  Good Job Dan for grabbing the bigger steak for us!

Chef Dan seasoning our steak.

Chef Dan checking on our steak with Sous Chef Joy just observing.

Our very medium rare pan seared NY strip steak.  

Chef Dan taking a bite into his steak that he worked so hard for.

View of our classroom, which is at our instructor's house.

Chefs Joy and Dan with a real Chef Celeste.