Ahora, ya me puedo casar! (Porque sé cocinar)

Another weekend in the beautiful Mexico City. Jess, Bruno and I headed over to the capital on Friday to attend a cooking class provided by COMEXUS (who I partly work for). Embarrassingly enough, we were the last ones to arrive because of traffic. I wish that the program had events like this in different parts of the country and not just in Mexico City because I loved the cooking class. It was at a classy place called Menjant in the Polanco neighborhood. We were in teams of 4 or 5 and each person on the team was in charge of a dish. We made tortilla soup, plantains wrapped in chicken with mole on top, white rice, and rompope (creamy alcohol) mousse. I was in charge of the chicken. The chef made everything look so easy like slicing the chicken breasts paper thin. I did learn how to cut chicken properly, though. After we made the food the chef and helpers popped the chicken in the oven and we sat down at the beautifully set table on the other side of the kitchen. Our courses were served to us. My favorite dish was the soup. I love tortilla soup. It’s like a light tomato soup and you add sour cream, lettuce, avocado, and tortilla chip strips. The chicken was good, too. The dessert was lacking sugar but the chef said it’s supposed to taste like that because if you add sugar (any at all), it burns. I would have been good with a syrup drizzled over it or something. Friday night, we went salsa dancing in Mexico City. The place was chill but the crowd danced really well! It was a Cuban salsa I think that most people were dancing.

Saturday was spent exploring the famous National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City. I’ve been wanting to go for months. Bruno and I got there around 1PM and stayed until 7PM and saw a little more than half the museum. I’ve developed an appreciation for museum in the past few years and this one was a great one! I used to read every word on every sign and now I do the opposite. They had a really interesting evolution of man exhibit with rubber ape/people. I loved seeing all the textiles. The detail is incredible: the bowls covered in tiny beads, intricately painted animal sculptures, rope designs on the walls, etc. I hope to go back to finish exploring the rest of the museum sometime before I return to Chicago.