Japanese Cooking Class

Rachel has to do some Community Service hours in Creativity for her school and it is difficult not being able fulfill the hours not knowing the language.  One way we thought would be fun, was cooking classes.  So we signed up with two co-workers and went today from 10:30 to 1:30.  It was located at our local mall called Sun to Moon and the cooking class is sponsored by the gas company.  We had to pay $40 a piece for the instruction and the food we cooked.
There was a chef from a local restaurant that taught us four interesting Japanese dishes.  The first one was rice with crab meat, topped with greens and ginger.  Another was a sweet potato dish that we grated and then made into balls.  The soup over it had duck meat and soy sauce in it.  Very tasty!
We grilled a white fish marinated in a sake mixture that took a week to make- the chef brought it ready made.  The green leaves looked like spinach, but is part of a edible weed mixed with a mustard sauce.
The last was the pastry made from sweet potato and fried with a cream sauce on each side.
There were six people in our group and we made 6 portions of everything.  When everything was cooked, we sat down at a table and ate our lunch.  Of course, it was delicious!  The chef made us clear soup and we had green tea with our meal.

Now Rachel gets to try and think what she wants to make to complete her hours...right now she is thinking of ginger ice cream and rice cooked with chicken and vegetables.  I can't wait to try her dishes!
¥Joanna¥