For Valentine's Day, we drove over to Tucci's Kitchen outside of Reading and learned how to make pizza and pasta with a small group of five others. We got to try a specially-made pasta sauce with some speciality breads made while we were there. We were each given some dough to divide up and knead into the perfect pizza base for our pizzas. After popping the pizzas in the oven, we were taught how to make pasta and spent the remainder of the class creating shapes, which were demonstrated, with the pasta dough.
When the pizzas were cooked, we ate them around a table and shared the bread and the tomato sauce. I had loaded my pizza with a lot of toppings, and it was delicious. We got to take home a second dough ball to make our own pizza, which we made the next day.
Our pasta shapes were also taken home in little boxes, along with the pizza dough ball, and it was the best pasta I have ever eaten, as I often have the dried pasta that can be bought in supermarkets.
Looking at the image of my pizza below makes me hungry. Fresh, quality ingredients really make a difference to the taste of food.
The owners discussed their new restaurant and cooking classes while we were there, and we had a nice chat over our meal. For more information, visit: http://www.tucciskitchen.com/
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