Have you ever taken a cooking class at Zingerman’s in Ann Arbor?

Well other than home economics in high school, this was my first class and boy; Zingermans did a great job from start to finish. So if you are looking for a different date night, try this out. All classes are booked through 2009, so look at the course schedule for next year.

The class we enjoyed was cream puffs. Now mind you, it was not the subject matter that was important, but the experience of trying something new, meeting different people and participating in our local economy.

Our instructor was Alejandro, assisted by 2 others who were on hand to give tools, clean up and assist. Boy did I need help whisking. I switched from lefty to righty and back trying to get pastry cream to the right consistency, smiling all the time. And, oh by the way, the actual recipes are shared. The point is to use all natural ingredients – flour unbromated, King Arthur is what they buy. Who knew?

Ok, so we made pate a choux. Yah I know it sounds so cool. “pot oh shoo”. What was really interesting is the dough can be used for snack bites, salad crudités, donoughts, and cheese puffs by adding hard cheese. We learned that the largest ingredient in buying chocolate should be cocoa not sugar. We made a ganache to die for to coat éclairs.

Then we sampled, we shared, and we gathered pastries to take home. MMM, so the diet starts tomorrow and back to Ann Arbor Real Estate.

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