tom valenti

i volunteered for my 2nd cooking class with central market's cooking school this past friday. tom valenti was the guest chef and he made 5 different recipes from his new cookbook, you dont have to be a diabetic to love this cookbook. supposedly tom valenti's a pretty famous chef that's good friends with bobby flay and mario batali, which he made sure to name-drop them at least 4x during his class. the food was good with clever ways to incorporate a diabetic's eating limitations however the recipes are too complicated for my liking. i ended up not buying his cookbook and i think i might have offended him :x.

menu included:
- shrimp toast (good but too many ingredients for me)
- salmon carpaccio (didnt get to try :()
- fresh fettuccine with asparagus
- grilled tuna with red pepper puree (fav dish)
- stuffed chx breasts w basil, goat cheese, & sun-dried tomato (not a big fan of goat cheese)