Saturday July 6th A Filipino Menu with Jay Guerrero

I am thrilled to have Jay Guerrero back to lead a class at the farm this year. He is a tremendous cook and an even better teacher. While attending art school in New York, he worked for Gabrielle Hamilton at Prune in the Lower East Side, then returned home to Seattle, cooking for Renee Erickson at both The Boat Street Cafe and Bar Melusine. I delivered cheese to him for years, and always enjoyed what was cooking in those kitchens.

Jay has taught classes at the farm for the last few years and last year I asked him to teach a class on Filipino cuisine. It was an excellent class, one that I enjoined tremendously. What I thought was most interesting and unexpected was the class included Filipino-Americans who had been raised eating traditional Filipino food, yet had never learned to make it themselves.

For this class, Jay will be preparing Albacore Kinilaw, fish cured with vinegar, radish slaw and coconut milk. Followed by Chicken Inasal, a marinated grilled whole chicken basted in annatto oil and then Pinakbet: vegetables cooked with pork belly and shrimp paste. For a dessert Jay will be teaching us to make Turon, a banana lumpia. It is sure to be a flavorful class with new techniques and ingredients taught.