Mussels and Oysters

Another great night in the kitchen! I am very much going to miss these classes when gourmet boot camp comes to an end in two weeks...

We baked bread, which was pretty lackluster in my humble opinion...I don't think they added pastry flour this time, which was a step up, but I don't think they added salt...really tasteless...but good for dipping into the sauces we made for the mussels and oysters.

I did a curry sauce for my mussels, some garlic, butter, white wine, cream and curry. It looked like I was eating mussels on the sun. I had everybody try them and the consensus was that the curry was a good idea. I really think that could be a great dish down the road...I didn't have time to really let the sauce thicken...but it was soooo pretty.

I did a cream and goat cheese sauce and then baked the oyster in the oven and topped it with a tomato dice that I sauteed quickly. YUM...

I am really going to miss the people in the class as well. It has been really fun to meet new people, especially ones as food obsessed as I tend to be...I'm thinking of trying to institute some kind of supper club where we would all get together to cook every once in a while.

What a great day today was. I took my shiny new bike for a ride, it was beautiful and sunny, and when we got to the top of the escarpment we saw and heard the peregrine falcons hunting over the red hill valley. We even saw their nest...what an incredible sight to see the falcon spread it wings and soar out over the trees. Their call is just haunting. Finish that off with cooking and eating and NO dishes to do....that is what I call a good day!