Photos from the Asian Street Food Class!!!

Chicken Pot Stickers

Thai Tea

Vietnamese Chicken Sandwich

Summer Tomatoes

Green zebra..my favortie...and sweet yellow cherry tomatoes...from my moms garden!

Summer Cupcake

This lovely cupcake is a yellow cake with a whipped cream frosting and a Bing cherry on top!

Rhuboka

I absolutly love rhubarb and wanted to create some type of infusion with it. In the past, I have infused vodka with mandarin peels..so why not rhubarb? My main go to vodka is Absolut. It's not to expensive and not to cheap to where I wont feel that bad if it didnt turn out. I chopped up about 5 cups of rhubarb and soaked it in canning jars with the vodka. I was thinking I would give it a couple weeks but the vodka took the color on real quick. So I ended up letting it sit on the counter for 6 days. On the 6th day I strained the colorless rhubarb and added a simple sugar mixture into the vodka and then bottled it up! It smells amazing and I gave it a little taste test and it really took on the flavor of the rhubarb.

Sacramento Bee Blog Write Up

http://blogs.sacbee.com/dining/archives/2010/06/cooking-classes.html

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Why fruit can turn muffins or scones blue?

Water soluble pigments called anthocyanins are responsible for this. Apples, blueberries, blackberries, cherries, some figs, nectarines, peaches, plums, raspberries, ruubarb, and strawberries are all fruits that contain anthocyanins. Peaches contain it only in there skin. To prevent your batter from turing blue or to help keep it from turing blue increase acidity such as buttermilk.