RAVIOLI PASTA Making Class with 5 element cooking

This is my Nanna

Born in Scotland, raised in India, lived in South Africa, lives in Australia.

What is the best recipe or life skill you've learnt from your grandmother?

Chatting with Aneta founder of 5 Element Cooking around the kitchen table about what a communist Poland was like, just 34 years ago Poland was free from communism. Everyday life in communist Poland was very difficult. Everything was regulated and controlled by the government including food. Aneta talks about the struggles her grandmother faced daily and the peasant cuisine she grew up on. People didn't just walk into stores and take what they wanted. The pillars of their diet included floury dishes, groats, cereals, potatoes, and milk (nobody owned a fridge). Even in the early post-war years, peasant cuisine was still mainly vegetable-based, with just a few animal products.

I love learning about other cultures, trying different cuisines and learning about how people grew up, cause we all have a story to tell. Makes me feel sad for the Gen Z's and Gen Alpha's cause most won't experience these kind of table discussions, as we live in a world where for most everything is excessive and easily accessible through a screen.

Courses like Pasta making is a life skill.

It's life changing for me, knowing that I can potentially make my daughter's food from scratch without buying the pre-made stuff from the shop and it isn't time consuming, it is fun to make together and tastes fresh. I also learnt how to make Ricotta (taste test between an ASDA own brand and our one and there was no comparison, I won't be eating shop bought again ).

The flavours of the butternut with the dried sage and burnt butter sauce was orgasmic.

I think everyone should have access to cookery classes like this. It's truly invaluable.

The 5 Element Cooking Method teaches you how to combine all 5 elements in each dish so that the flavours are balanced. You eat with the seasons and the method helps balance your body and treat illnesses (Ying & Yang). Each Element is assigned a Flavour - Earth (Sweet), Fire (Bitter), Water (Salty), Wood (Sour), and Metal (Pungent).

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