Days FORTY FIVE AND FORTY SIX. Soup and Pasta

Days 45 and 46. Soup and Pasta. Sunday was stake conference at church. The visiting 70 was the most entertaining, down to earth speaker I have heard in quite some time. If I wasnt so tired I'd write about his talk. (He bought a house outside of the stake boundries when he got called to be stake president, he told the powers that be that they made a mistake, he's moving and he will loose all of his down payment if he doesnt complete the purchse. He lost his money, found a new home in the city. James E Faust called him one morning and said he would like to meet the man who gave up all his money to serve the Lord....that is just one of the stories he told). After that Mindy introduced me to some people, and invited me over for a soup lunch. I accepted. Spent the afternoon talking with them....and invited myself on Mindy & Erin's trip to Scotland. Yep we leave Tuesday as in today/tomorrow depending on when you read this. They were planning the trip Sunday afternoon and were glad I wanted to come with them. I have been so busy with school that i have not had time to plan out mini trips. I told them I would do whatever they wanted to do as long as I didnt have to plan anything. :)

 Monday was a slow morning, jog/walked, did laundry, cooked up & froze some meals with vegetables I had lying around. Then before I knew it, it was time to go to class. We learned how to make Truffles. Three kinds. White, Milk, and Dark Chocolate. All three with different outcomes, but all with similar beginnings. Chef actually asked for volunteers to help him. Usually we just sit and watch. I was picked :) and helped with the Milk Chocolate Praline ones. This chef is the only conscious one that makes a batch for the non-drinkers in the bunch. They were really good.... just not looking forward to making them at 8am tomorrow.

 After class, five from my group signed up for a Jamie Oliver course at Recipease....I know I have written about it before, but it actually came through tonight. No Jamie did not teach the class. Yes I was bummed. Yes I got over it. We made pasta from scratch. I thought we would make different kinds of pasta (ravioli, tortelli, spaghetti), but we only made one kind and we just took it through the pasta machine in two different cuts, thin and thick. We made marinara, tomatoes/garlic/spicy pepper. I thought we would make different sauces, but that was the only one we made. They had two others that they did just as a demonstration, and we could take a bite of them. For the money we paid I would have hoped for more, but it was fun, simple, and easy. We got to eat our own concoctions as well. Pretty tasty for a first timer, and yes, I will be giving lessons :) Got home late, and packed for the trip. Yahoo! I'll try to keep you posted. Dont know if I'll have wifi up there, but just incase you wonder where I went....now you know you'll have to be patient.