Farewell Class

Today was our last Vital Ingredient cooking class (tears on my pillow). I loved this class because of the food we prepared and I learned some new kitchen skills, specifically proper knife skills and how to properly cut and dice an onion. I also learned how to make salad dressing and mayonnaise from scratch. I will never buy bottled salad dressing again! Tonight we prepared a cold soup,watermelon soup. I have always wanted to try it and tonight I got my chance. It was surprisingly delicious. I also learned how to set up a cooking blog so I could post our fabulous recipes. I want to thank the Vitality Cooking team, Chef Lofink, Kevin Brown and Maria Allison for the cooking and computer skills I learned these past two months.😋😋😋😋😋👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏

Watermelon Gazpacho

Tonight's class focused on a delicious cold soup, Watermelon Gazpacho.  It was surprisingly delicious!!

Ingredients:

1 large heirloom tomato, small dice

1/2 serrano chili pepper, small dice

2 cups fresh watermelon

1 teaspoon red wine vinegar

1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil

2 tablespoons minced red onion

1/2 cucumber, seeded and minced

2 tablespoons mined fresh dill, plus more for garnish

Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper

1/4 cup crumbled feta cheese

In a blender, puree the tomatoes, chile and 1/2 of the watermelon. Pour in the red wine vinegar and olive oil and pulse. Add the onion, cucumber and dill and season with salt and pepper. Puree until smooth. Poor into chilled bowls and sprinkle with dill, feta and remaining watermelon. Serve.

From start

 To finish!!

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Potato Soup in Class

The potato soup was very good.  I really enjoyed the simplicity of making it without all of the salt that we have , when we buy soup in the can.    Chef Brian is a great teacher; The edible flowers were not only pretty to look at,  they were quite tasty.