French Riviera Cooking Class

Today we got to discover the taste of the south of France. We made bagna cauda to accompany a lot of veggies. The tomato and mustard puff pastry tart was light and oh so good. I could've eaten several pieces of it!! The socca was a unique way to use chickpea flour and very interesting in the fact that it was not flipped when made on the pan. The French Riviera rice salad with dressing was really nice and to top it all off we had a FANTASTIC clafoutis! One new thing that everyone who wasn't from France learned was to eat radish with butter and salt. So unique and it cut the sharpness. This is something you definitely learn from locals!! Thank you Claire for teaching a great class full of many dishes!! Thank you Jerry for hosting and for everyone for joining. We even had members who had moved to Germany, but were here for the weekend join us. It was a great class!! I was very fortunate to receive two gifts at the class. A small container of homemade veggie stock and a knife sharpener!! See you next month

                                                  

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Akimatsuri

This was the 5th Akimatsuri for Leos and I.  I still can't believe that it was our 5th!  We made sure to get to the festival before 12pm, but so many other people had the same idea.  The lines for ramen and takoyaki were crazy.  I told Leos that we shouldn't stay in the same line.  I sent him to the yakisoba line.  He managed to come back to me and I was still waiting to get ramen.  He took Amaya and the stroller to a table, which made carrying the ramen much easier.  Once I got to them, I took a few bites and decided I needed to go to the mochi line before it got too long.  Luckily, there were around 15 people in front of me.  Once I got the mochi, we were done with food lines. I played bingo with Amaya and it was the first time in all the festivals we have been to that I didn't get a double bingo.  It was much more difficult with her. However, I still managed to get bingo and win Amaya some prizes.  I was able to buy Amaya some heat tech from UNIQLO, so I was really happy with that.  I looked at the clouds and I told Leos that we should go.  Once we got into the car, it started to rain and 5 minutes later it was raining quite heavily.  I made a great decision in going.  Plus Amaya fell asleep right away.  It was a wonderful Akimatsuri and we will definitely go again next year!

                             we arrived before 12pm and so many people were ahead of me

                                                        line before 12pm!

                                                                    ramen

                                                                yakisoba

                                                            yummy mochi

                                     Leos testing Amaya which item she liked better

                                                  the clouds were not looking the best

                                        I was happy with the things I brought back home