MINNEAPOLIS -- Coleman family insiders were stunned Sunday night when Cate Coleman ate shrimp, for reportedly the first time in her life.Coleman, 35, partook of the seafood dish as part of a Coleman family outing to Let's Cook, a store near downtown Minneapolis that offers cooking classes and events for groups. Mom volunteers there for other people's classes and brought the group of family adults down for a private class, focused on handmade pasta.
The shrimp was an hors d'oeuvre.
"Once I got past what it looked like, I tried it and it actually tasted good," she explained later in the evening.
Cate has actually cooked shrimp before, for me, as I was the only one in the family who would eat it. But she has often expressed a desire to not be able to recognize her food when it's on her plate, if you know what I mean, and a cooked shrimp is shaped a lot like the thing it used to be.
During the evening, she also tried the spinach filling for tortellini. And there were other things but I don't remember what she tasted at the table.
It was a fun evening, kneading dough, cutting it into strips and forming it into shapes, or tortellini, or ravioli ... man, getting hungry just thinking about it again. The chef had some incredible sauces to serve with the various pasta. Cate did draw the plain pasta, while other Colemans made tomato-flavored pasta and spinach pasta, but it was neat to knead the dough and roll it out, etc.
Plus, it was just nice to get out without the kids.
2 comments:
Well I am glad the the 'economic downturn' has not affected the family's ability to go out on the town. I also congratulate Cate on her new-found daring in the food department. I knew she had it in her since she was daring enough to marry Pat, but this is a good new direction!
When I first met Cate she was eating a plate of buttered white rice for dinner. She's come a long way. :)
And yeah, she was 18 at the time, too. Things change.
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