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A kitchen-full weekend

Although I did a lot of baking during the winter holidays, I failed to blog about it. Bummer. I was inspired to write the first post of 2011 after taking a fantastic cooking class about five blocks away from my house, in the home of a woman who has been teaching for over 15 years. And learning in a home (seems obvious, I know) is so much better than learning in an industrial kitchen for cooking classes. Three hours later, I emerged with the knowledge of how to butterfly and roast a chicken, make refrigerator soup, chicken stock, easy potato and gruyere pizza, almond paste cake, and cornbread pudding. Woah. It was awesome, as were the little tips and tricks for using every last bit of what you buy. I've officially adopted the 'real food, only' philosophy, as evidenced by my trip to the grocery store yesterday. Sapun's list: frozen boxed meals. Mine: bagged vegetables, and lots of them. Although his meals aren't really that bad - they're from Trader Joe's, a