An Eye-Full of Paris: Bastille Day, Cooking With Class

I totally forgot to do a recap of Bastille Day and of my 3rd cooking class before I left for Prague!

Bastille Day

It is similar to July 4th in the states where no one works, everything is closed, and its a huge excuse to be outside, party and watch fireworks. Fat Tire catered BBQ to the Champs de Mars for all the Fat Tire and "guests" to eat so I was well fed :) But now comes the good part: The French do their fireworks to music. Watching fireworks with the Eiffel Tower as the background seriously puts the Lakewood Country Club fireworks to shame. It was so perfect because the music they chose to perform the fireworks to was a medley of American musicals including but not limited to: Sound of Music ( I freaked out), Chicago, West Side Story, Hello Dolly, Fiddler on the Roof, Sweeney Todd, New York New York, with a finale (ironically) of "I Want to Be in America" from West Side Story. I was having so much fun singing along that a French woman in front of me shushed me. And when I didnt stop-she moved! Ha!!

Cooking With Class

I took this class with Mollie, her mom and sister. We started at a market, picked out all of our ingredients and then went back to the kitchen to cook, eat and drink. Mollie and I liked this kitchen better than Cordon Bleu because it was more personal-there were only 5 of us in the class total. Also, we got to eat our food as we made it, all 4 courses, with a different bottle of wine with each course. I didnt eat it all BUT I did try everything. Including: Veal, Sweetbreads (Baby Cow Glands), mashed potatoes, Mussels, some kind of Fish I didnt know, a 3rd course of eight different cheeses and a lemon curd for dessert! All in all such a wonderful day!!! I probably will only make the lemon curd when I come home, but thats ok :)