Our cooking class this week focused on a meal for just the two of you. The menu was fancy, familiar and finger-licking good! We started with handmade French Bread.
This bread recipe easily fit into a kitchen aid mixer.
We put our bread into these french bread pans, available at Bed Bath and Beyond, Orson Gygi, Williams Sonoma and many other stores.
Like any other bread, you must let it rise.
The bread was a little bit crunchy on the outside and very soft on the inside. We served it with some herbed compound butter: butter blended with other flavors, in this case, savory herbs!
We then started making our Salted Caramel Gelato
Starting to caramelize the sugar.
Chef Lou showing us what scalded milk looks like.
Adding the cream/milk mixture to the caramel. After mixing it together, put the batch in an ice cream maker. In about 15 mins you will have silky smooth ice cream!
Our entree for the night was Breast of Chicken Florentine
After breading the chicken in a 3-step process, we fried it on the stove
We then started on dessert: a pear frangipane galette
Frangipane is a term for a filling made from or flavored like almonds
galette is a term for a flat, round or free-form crusty cake
Spread the filling on the flower shaped pate sucre dough, and arrange the cut pears
Turn over the "flower petals" and you're ready to bake it! We served it with a scoop of the salted caramel gelato
The entire meal was delicious! Now we can practice before the big day!
Our next cooking class is February 12th: Comfort Food night
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