I started my cooking class last week (Tuesday), and you'd think I would have recipes galore to share on my blog, wouldn't you?  JD also thought he was getting home-cooked meals all this week.  Yeah well, neither one of those things happened.  For whatever reason, I could not get motivated to be creative this week.  Long week at work, way too cold outside and way too dark when I got home every night.  All I wanted to do was snuggle under a blanket on the couch and watch trashy TV.  So I did.  Nearly every night.  And all day Saturday.

Regardless, the class was awesome...great teacher, good format, enthusiastic fellow students, and I know I'm going to love each and every Tuesday for the next five months.  We covered knife skills and we learned how to make stocks (chicken stock, fish stock, veal stock).  I'm hoping to have some good blog posts later this week, with stuff learned from my class as well as some other goodies.

In the meantime, I thought everyone would get a kick out of what I made in the kitchen this week...

These:

And these:

And these:

Then we wanted some queso dip, so we made that...

And that was my week.  I did make some cookies yesterday for the football party, as well as margaritas, but that's it.  To paraphrase Jules from Pulp Fiction, that's some real gourmet shit, don't you think?