Cooking in Tuscany

Greetings to all....

I have now been involved in three days of cooking from Chef Claudio. There are a total of 11 people in the class. He is a great teacher....everything we end up doing he says, "Perfecto!!!" Surprising it does taste pretty good and we have done some very unusal things. Yesterday, we cook octypus, anchovies with sage [my dish], fried sardines, two types of pasta and sauce, porcini mushroom soup and fresh cantiloupe ice cream. Today, I did tripe [spelling]...this is cow's stomach [I am not sure which of the cow's stomach it was], but everyone liked it and I must say while it did not 'taste like chicken,' it was very good!!!

This afternoon we are off to a class in Chianti study, which I imagine will involve a 'taste' of the juice!

Know that I am working hard, but trying to keep up with the lessons!

Peace & Prayers.

Fr. Steve