FREE Online Cooking Course

Last week, Dave and I decided to try out a free sample cooking lesson online. It was a lot of fun and we certainly learned some new facts and techniques. I found out about it through America's Test Kitchen's website when they started to tout their new Test Kitchen School that was launched last month. By the end of the lesson, you use many of the things you learned to make a large pan of cheese manicotti with a quick tomato sauce. Simple, yet delicious.

There was also an exercise in which you tasted six different kinds of canned tomatoes to train your palette in detecting certain flavors. In hindsight, I wish we would of done this activity, but in the interest of not buying a ton of tomatoes we would have likely just thrown away, we skipped over that part.

The free lesson was nice but I don't know if I would fork out that much cash and dedication to go through an entire series. (An eight week course on the Principal of Cooking costs $500!) We will definitely be trying out their free knife skills lesson when we get around to it.