What I love about our classes is that underneath the mellow exterior, high schoolers really are active people. And many have chosen our class because they don’t want to sit at a desk, they want to come in and work (although tasting the results is certainly an excellent secondary incentive).
But what do you do with 40 students who want to learn how to chop? Yes, onions are the classic practice chopping item, just having roughly 20 students at a time chopping onions is, well, painful. This time we used carrots and leeks to make a super simple carrot soup to go with our North African favorite: Chicken Bastilla — and I was reminded that 25 pounds of chopped carrots does indeed make at least 4 gallons of carrot soup. Gulp!
Then came the next question, as we were plating: What does “garnish” mean? So we got into garnish.
Carrot soup with chermoula, cilantro and yoghurt cream, individual bastilla pies, strawberry mango lassi.
