Finally, coming to France has paid off. I can officially say I've made bread. My baguettes and sandwich breads were delicious! Soft on the inside and crunchy on the outside for the baguettes and perfectly firm and brioche-like for the sandwich bread.
My Mom and Jex had the honor of coming to the demonstration class for my bread baking. They were very excited, but the combination of being jetlagged and the room being super warm to encourage the bread dough to rise was not good. They both nodded off a few times, but really enjoyed the Chef's bread when he finally let us all have a taste. Even though they fell asleep they were still such a hit with the Chef that he gave them their own fresh baguette to bring home!
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| Chef Cotte's bread creations |
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| My Baguettes |
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| My sandwich breads |
The last time they came with me to a demo class was in Basic Pastry and we learned to make a Gateau Basque. Chef Cotte offered Lindy one of his cakes after that class and she bought a tupperware container and flew the cake all the way home to Virginia! This time we brought the bread home and enjoyed it with some cheese before heading out to an extremely fancy dinner at Guy Savoy's flagship three Michelin starred restaurant aptly named Guy Savoy. We enjoyed a truly over the top tasting menu that took us 3.5 hours to finish. Holy Moly!
YUMMERS!! your rasp passion cake down below is gorgeous, too. let me know if/when i can come sit in on a class!
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