Saturday, May 9, 2009

ABC Cookingu


A few weeks ago Anne and I went to Sakae and ended up eating in the Cat's cafe, a cafe on the top floor of a mall/large department store.   Next to the Cat's cafe is ABC Cooking Studio, a place where people can taking cooking or baking classes.  While waiting for Anne I walked over to the display right outside of the cooking studio, curious to see what kinds of food you could learn to cook.  A diligent ABC Cooking Studio staff member noticed my attention and walked over and asked me something very quickly in Japanese.
What is maybe from a combination of  me being a little overwhelmed by the amount of Japanese I don't understand every day and also not wanting to stand around like I don't know what's going on all the time, I have developed a habit of answering "yes" to questions before my brain actually processes what the question was.  I realize this is not the best idea in the world and could potentially lead me into some sort of sketchy situation, or in the very least cause me some embarrassment when I have to admit that I don't actually know what a particular conversation is about, but such is my life. 
 Fortunately the only consequence of answering yes to the ABC Cooking Studio lady's question was that she gave me a cooking studio brochure and a 10 minute explanation on what kinds of cooking classes I could sign up for if I wanted to learn to bake bread or make desserts.  Anne returned during said explanation and the lady told us about a one day cooking class special we could sign up for.  
  On the train ride home, Anne and I decided to do this one day cooking class special and make Caramel Hazelnut Cheesecake.  So we returned to the cooking studio a few weeks later to bake (in celebration of Jenni Kovalick's  birthday).   Pictured is the result of our hard work using pre-measured ingredients and following the step by step instructions of  the 3 cooking studio workers hovering over our table the whole time we were baking.   

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