Yesterday’s cooking class was all about eggs. There was poached, hard cooked and coddled eggs, crepes, souffles, fritas and piperade. Sufficed to say we were all egged out by the end of class. I did the quiche. Unfortunatly I only got to use my new knife set to cut butter and some chives but I did get to make a quiche crust from scratch by hand. The whole time I wasn’t sure if I was doing it quite right but in the end the quiche came out pretty tasty. The best part was I didn’t have to clean up afterwords and believe me when I say I made a big mess. I ended up getting to know a bunch of people in my class this time around. There was the student from Harvard, an editor of a local food magazine and a babysitter. The reasons for taking the course was as mixed as each individuals background. The diversity makes an interesting class even more interesting.

After class I relaxed until the evening when I met up with Nalin for a wine tasting fund raiser run by the Cambridge Center for Adult Education benefiting their scholarship fund. It was held in the Crate and Barrel store in Harvard Square and ended up being three floors of fun nibbling on some good cheeses and drinking some decent wine around all the shelves of house wares. I even got to window shop for things I need in my kitchen. There was a silent auction going on and I think I won the bid for the pirogi making lessons for me and five friends. At least I was the top bid by the time I left at 10:30.

They had a really good jazz/pop band playing downstairs and I ended up meeting a few people while dancing. We continued the party at Daedalus. I had one more glass of Chianti there and then Nalin and I called it a night and went to Philipe’s for a quick burrito (i swear, wine goes great with a spicy burrito). I ended learning about Boston Uncorked which is a club which throws wine tasting events around Boston. I might end up going to more of these wine tasting events. If you can’t go to the vineyards, have the vineyards come to you.

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