N. Tamiya Community Center Cooking Class, 01-28-2013

I had another cooking class this morning.  We made Chinese cabbage soup, fried pork seasoned with scallions, benishoga (red pickled ginger) and black sesame seeds, shredded carrots with miso and little apple pies.
Instead of each work area doing all of the things, the courses were divided and each area made something different.

Afterwards I went to Naoko's house where she and a friend reading Harry Potter in English.  We'll do that probably twice a month.  It's a particularly hard book for them because 1) there are a lot of made up words; and 2) because there are a LOT of British words and expressions.  And then there is British slang, dialects, 'lower class' English, etc.  So I hand it to them for trying. 

Pork seasoned with beni shoga, black sesame and scallions - fried.

Shredded carrots sauted in oil, with miso.

Cream of Chinese cabbage soup with milk foam.

Rice cooked with mushrooms and salmon.

A mini apple pie - YUM.

Leftover rice made into onigiri (rice balls).

Ready to eat.