👩🏻‍🍳 Comfort Foods Cooking Class

Hello! Happy Monday and Happy Valentine's Day!!! ❤️❤️❤️

A few weeks ago I recapped a King’s cooking class that my mom and I attended (post here), and we had so much fun we had to do it again…this time with my dad too!

The theme this time was Comfort Foods, and we had the wonderful Chef Kathleen Sanderson to teach us again. 

Here’s what we cooked:

Pastrami Style Salmon with Mashed Potatoes-

We brined the salmon in a water, sugar, soy sauce mixture, then coated it in pastrami spices and baked it. It was moist and flavorful and paired perfectly with those killer mashed potatoes. (Kathleen’s trick? Lots and lots of butter. And only add warmed liquids to the hot potatoes so they don’t seize up. They were so light and fluffy.)

Pork Tenderloin with Buttermilk Biscuits-

Do you see the orange colored sauce served under the pork? It was the easiest and yummiest sauce ever! Take all the veggies that roasted with the pork (Kathleen used celery, carrots, and onions) and blitz them up in a blender with some heavy cream and spices. Easy peasy!

Poached Pear with Chewy Ginger Cookies-

The pears were simmered in red wine, sugar, and cinnamon and the cookies were like chewy, spicy ginger snaps. All of it made even more spectacular when topped with a scoop of vanilla Häagen-Dazs. Poached pears always seemed so difficult and fancy in my head, but really it’s tossing them into some poaching liquid, popping a lid on them, and let them do their thing.

This was another fun class in the books! I can’t wait to head back to King’s for another class real soon. 

Thanks for reading, have a fabulous day. :)