Does vegetarian count as cooking?

I mean, there is no meat, so is it really food? Anyway Ursula got me a cooking lesson at the Dirty Apron for Christmas and I choose the Vegetarian class since all of my recipies dont work so well now I married a herbivore. What is so wrong with chicken, steaks and burgers?

I had a blast at the class. It was well run and went something like this.

The chef would demo how to make something and then we'd all go and make one with him and two assistants coming round to help. We started with a goats cheese and carmalised onion tart which looked something like this;



We then had to sit down and try it out of course. With a nice red wine.

We followed up that by making pasta from scratch which was easier than I thought. Then we prepared the chocolate lava cake to go in the fridge (by the way, this was not in any way the low calorie class).
While the pasta sat and did what pasta does while wrapped in cling film we prepared the sauce for it, a sultana and arthichoke creation. Then is was time to prepare the ricotta with lemon zest roll out the pasta. Again this part of pasta making was much easier than I thought. Roll up the ricotta in it and the tortellini looked something like this;

Mix all this with the sauce, stick it on a plate and try this out (with more wine naturally). It was damn good.



While we ate some one stuck the lava cakes in the oven so they were just ready as we were.


I'd recommend the class, the food was great but next time I'll bring Urs as she's now expecting me to cook it all again tonight.... oh well, just like at the Dirty Apron I'll be expecting some one else to clean up after me.