For the longest time, I have always wanted to try a cooking class. I like to cook, though I don’t cook very much in this season of my life, and I felt like a cooking class could be a great way to see new techniques and learn how to make different foods from my usual cuisine.

My girlfriends and I just went to a “Deceptively Delicious Tapas” class at Southern Season in Chapel Hill on Saturday night! It was months in the works, and Saturday night could not get here fast enough!
We were presented a menu for the evening, and the head chef walked us though each course before we started. It began with a salad, 3 different flatbread tapas, and ended with a chocolate cake. That may sound simple, but each course (other than the salad) was made very strategically with different vegetables. For example, the flat breads were not made with flour! We riced cauliflower and broccoli to make two of the flat breads, and the last flat bread was made with lentils. The chef has children, and she explained that she’s always looking for ways to sneak vegetables into her dishes and she wanted to show us how too! And our chocolate cake had BEETS in it! The ganache for the cake was made with an entire avocado as well! It was really eye opening and fun to see how creative the chef was with our menu.

Anyway, other than the 6 of us, there was about 7 other students and then roughly 4 staff to assist us all. And we all just dove in, took on different courses, and started ...