what's cookin'

last night i went with a friend to a cooking class in downtown ankara. it's a gourmet food shop with a test kitchen in the basement where they hold weekly classes. it's taught by the executive chef of the swisshotel here in ankara & was a lot of fun, so i enrolled for the next 4 weeks!

we made pumpkin soup (something i've made before but it did give me some good ideas), 'butter rice' (turkish style), and a traditional turkish chicken dish with lots of veggies. basically we watch him cook for 2 hours, help out whenever needed, take notes, talk, drink wine, and then eat the food. not bad. also, he will cook whatever we request, so we can learn how to make some of the traditional turkish food we like, and we get printed recipes of every dish.

so now on top of turkish language, i'm learning the art of the food. hmmmm... what's next?!