Cooking Class with Mom

My Mom was nice enough to take me to a cooking class this week. We've been to a couple of other classes at the Sweet Basil Shop and Cooking School before. This one was all about chicken and the many ways to prepare it. I really like the instructor because she doesn't try to teach us wacky 'froo froo' recipes. She teaches practical recipes and tips for saving time or changing things up with other ingredients. The first part of the class the instructor goes over all of the recipes and then everybody decides which one they'd like to work on and we make them. The best part is at the end when we get to sample them all!

Mom decided she would work on the poached chicken breast. Keep in mind that the poaching liquid was scotch. She joined up with 2 very nice men in the class. (Hmmm.. Men and scotch? I'm just sayin...) I tried the pretzel crusted chicken breast with honey mustard sauce with another lady from the class. It was very fun and we both had good recipes. I really want to try making the chicken fried chicken with cowboy mashed potatoes recipe at home. Here's Mom and me with her poached Asian chicken on a bed of Thai noodles:

And here's a few of the other recipes. The cowboy mashed potatoes & chicken fried chicken is the plate with the giant mound of potatoes in the middle.

The pretzel crusted chicken was really good, too. I think Rob will really like that one. Does anybody wanna come over and have dinner? I have all these new recipes to try out!!! Thanks for a great day Mom!