AN EVENING WITH MONDOMULIA - #FRD2013

Hannah and I were lucky enough to attend Giulia's first cooking masterclass in honor of Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution Day, and with the promise of freshly made Italian pizza using only the best ingredients we did the typical English thing and arrived early! Thankfully, we were greeted by Sandy as he prepared the recipe cards for the evening.

After Wendy had arrived and the first bottle of red was open, Giulia began describing the importance of ingredients in food and made sure we understood why she had selected each ingredient for the evening, including where she had found such wonders in London. I loved hearing about real honest food and especially enjoyed learned about Olive Branch Olive Oil and how acidity determines the grade of oil. Once we had been through each ingredient Giulia began preparing the dough showing us each stage before kneeding it and leaving it to prove.

As we waited, the best Bruschetta I've ever had was prepared and eaten whilst we chatted about all things photography & blogs, the fact that Hannah and I should move to London and our future plans including #frenchiepicnic and a Canadian Thanks Giving. Bring on summer!

Unfortunately our dough was not to be trusted and hadn't risen as Giulia had hoped, but we all had a great laugh forming our pizza bases including hitting the roof and dropping the dough more than once! After we handed our base attempts over to Giulia she expertly topped them and baked them into some of the best tasting pizza I've ever had.

I had another wonderful evening and hope we get the chance to cook with friends more often.