NISD Adult & Community Education

Three adult education classes under our belts now from Northside Learning Center… And I mean LITERALLY under our belts! Two Sushi classes, Basic and Advanced, and now a Tamale making class! My wife and I both were a little apprehensive about each class, but Northside has some great teachers for these classes!
Both Sushi classes were taught by Erin Skinner and she was fantastic! She gave us so much great information about the history of Sushi and the types of ingredients and where to get them in San Antonio. And we made so much sushi, we couldn’t eat it all! It wasn’t restaurant quality fancy, but pretty close and tasted great! The Making More Sushi class was a little tougher than the basic class (of course), but Erin taught us at a reasonable pace and was extremely helpful and answered every question posed to her. Highly recommend her classes!
Today we took Tamale Making with Regina Torrez. I was really worried about this class because it is 6 hours long and I had always believed making tamales would be very difficult. It was not super easy, but Regina steps you through it very well and explains everything in detail. And as a bonus, since the tamales take about 2+ hours to cook, she used those two hours to teach us how to make Mexican Rice and a quick Chili with pork sausage! OMG! BOTH were fantastic! The rice was so fluffy and flavorful and the chili was great and it really was easy! And everyone in the class ended up going home with a dozen tamales. 6 pork and 3 each of chicken and bean. Well, «going home with» is a loose interpretation… some of the tamales went home in our bellies! I would recommend if you ever thought you could not make tamales, to give this class a try! Regina was awesome, and a lot of fun to learn from. She even answered a lot of questions about Mexican food and spices that were not even part of the class! We got way more than our money’s worth. We gained the confidence to make our own Christmas tamales!