Oaxaca (part 4) - Nov 2

Signed up to a cooking course today, I put mine and Jwo´s name down but he baulked at the price so I went alone. There was only one other person there (a middle aged american woman), and the rather surly chef. I had to make up a story as to why my friend couldn´t make it (had to go with a nasty stomach bug). Perhaps it was the 3 other no-shows as to why I got grilled so much about it.

We got taken to the market to get the ingredients then we made - tortillas, thick flavoured tortillas, soup with squash flowers, chicken almond mole, stuffed peppers, chocolate icecream and a very sweet drink from some flower petals.

So yes the chef was a very prickly sort of guy, I actually thought the american woman might leave as he was being so rude to her. At one stage he was showing us how to cook tortillas:

chef - "You need to cook for 10 seconds on one side, then a minute on the other and then turn and again for 20 seconds."
american woman - "It seems like a bit of an art cooking tortillas."
chef - "It is not an art, just 10, a minute and then 20 seconds."

On my last day at Saladita it turned out there was a guy taking photos, this was the one of me I purchased from him.