In Reply to: mambolib posted by micolee on Saturday, 30. April 2011 at 15:12 Bali Time:
Yes she give you a booklet of about 30 recipes.
As I mention we were a group of 5 people and due to the size and lack of facilities it was a bit hard to be involved. Apart from grinding the paste's for the various meals chosen, there was not much to do , The format basically is: We sat around the small table and Maria got the required ingredients for the paste's ready in several Mortar's on the table. We then ground down the ingredients with the mortar and pestle to a paste. Maria then started to cooking on her kerosene burners in the entrance of her room near the wet room . I think she would normally do this outside but because it was raining she had no option. She also showed us how to make fresh coconut milk from grated coconut that she bought at the market.
The receipes are not hard to replicate once you get the ingredients ( If your in Perth , you can get everything from the Fruit & Veg and Asian store at Canning Vale Markets on the corner of South St and Banister Road).
I did the Bumbu Bali course at Tanjung Benoa ( near nusa) , early start market tours very informative . Then 9 am back at the restaurant breakfast, then started cooking , we did all the recipes listed on the website,
www DOT balifoods DOT com/bali-cooking-class DOT php
format was one or two of the group got up and cooked the rest of us instructed them on what to do next with the aid of the book. Everything was prepared for us so there was no peeling, cutting or chopping, the grinding of the Paste was done in commercial mixers. When it came to the smaller fiddly stuff we were all involved eg sate's (chicken, fish) , mushroom parcel in banana leaf .
It was the best day out that i have had in Bali. I did it in 2007 and it was about $135 Australian at the time but worth every cent.
Left my e-mail open in case you have any further quires.
hope this helps.