Legit Cooking Class

Legit cooking class...

Well I'm a little frustrated because I typed this entire post and it didn't save so now I have to type it again. Ugh. Oh well. 

What I was going to say is that Spanish Aimee and I were stoked to finally be doing some legit Costa Rican cooking. The class was taught by the same fast talking lady as the first class. There were  people in the class that didn't speak at all so she said she would speak slower...eh. It worked out. I understood a lot of what was said. More than the German and Dutch girl because the teacher was talking about cheese with worms in it and they thought she was talking about Swiss cheese, fondue and then string cheese before I finally asked if the worms lived in the cheese and she confirmed my suspicion. 

This cooking class we made enyucados. These are little bundles of deliciousness made with yuca and in this instance queso and sometimes carne. They said in the class usually carne that is like taco meat but Aimee and I are thinking brisket and all kinds of Texas meat. Yum! 

In this class there was a girl each from Japan, Germany andHolland. There were also two boys that I think were from Estados Unidos, which Aimee says I pronounce weird and is giving me a complex. I'm just going to tell people I'm from Texas, it's big enough to be a country right?

To make this little piece of yummy, you boil the yuca in salt water and mash them before making them into little tortillas that the cheese nestles into. We came in at the mashing part which the two dudes handled quite intensely as you can see in the picture. Funny. They also ended up doing the dishes which was charming. 

After making a little cocoon for the cheese you fry the enyucados in oil. I think she said normally you use more oil but she lightly fried them for us. So so so yummy!! I bought a traditional Costa Rican cookbook so I hope you are excited to eat this!