Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Cooking Basics

I've just come back from my Tuesday night cooking classes which I take with my friend Trish. She used to live on Vajid's floor back at Queen's.

While cleaning up, Trish and I noticed that Teacher-lady (I forget her name. She's a teacher though.) and Bald-guy (He may just shave his head. It's hard to tell. He doesn't look like he'd look very good with hair anyways.) were having quite a nice chat while doing the dishes. Later, we saw him walking her to her car.

"We met at a cooking class," they could later tell their kids.

It also came about that one of my classmates, who's a lawyer (We call him Pizza-dough man. He loved the pizza dough to an unhealthy degree.) used to be in a class at McMaster taught by another classmate, who is a retired professor of political science.

It's neat how our lives have intersected. Those yet to join the rat race, those already finished, those looking for love, all of us united by a Hollandaise sauce!

3 comments:

Greg said...

Simon,

Congratulations on learning how to cook. Cheffery is a critical life skill essential to survival and mating. It will serve you well.

What culinary masterpieces have you thus far learned to prepare? When will we be invited to sample the fruits of your labours?

I do so fondly recall the many enjoyable dishes whose creation I was instructed on during the cooking classes taken in my formative years. Spring rolls surely are amongst my favourites.

Yours,
Gregory

Anonymous said...

Really! You know how to make springrolls? I want to learn! Teach me!

Greg said...

Didn't I *MAKE* you springrolls ms. yonson?

I know I had you girls over for a dinner that I made based on one of my cooking classes. You girls all dressed up. I have pictures. I think you wore a grey sparkly dress.

With regards to how to make them, it was actually really quite involved. There was a list of ingredients as long as my arm. The actually wrapping process is difficult. And the cooking process is tricky too. But, I'm sure I could convey my wisdom in such as way as to allow you to also master the skillz0rz.
Gregory