Licence to bake and drive

This past weekend was another artistic day at the chateau, in the afternoon I lead a chocolate chip cookie making workshop with 8 participates it went well and everyone was very happy to take home a plate of cookies to enjoy.

My favorite thing is watching the kids paint they have so much intensity and imagination.

I was ecxited as well as I recieved in the mail today, my french drivers licence. Hurray I can now drive legally.

Too many cooks, and we didn't spoil the soup!

Saterday was the cooking workshop lead by Michele from our church. I helped him with the cooking part and others did the decorating and coordinating. Here is Michele as he was instucting the days youngest participants in how to scale, skin, and slice the salmon.

Here is the vegetable peelers getting started on all the peeling there was to do.
Here is Deborah, one of the girls skinning the fish.
Here are the ladies preparing the salmon verrines.
Here are the girls and I as we spent 2 hours mincing 10 pounds of shallots.
Here is Michele as he was teaching how to make crepe thin omlettes.
And then there was dinner...
Here is the verrines all finished.
And this is where I spent dinner time with Michele preparing the each of the 10 courses. It ended up being a wonderful time of conecting unsaved people with people from the church. Our total attendance was 27 for the dinner and we are hoping to be able to do something like this again so as to continue to have opportunites to bring the new people into the chateau.