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& Friendly Tours of Paris
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COOKING
/
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Parisian Home Cooking
Do you think the real French eat dinners in restaurants ? The truth is that the most they like to prepare meals at home !
Learning to cook is the best way to build understanding of the local culture, especially if you mean the French culture. Let's fulfill your Parisian & Culinary dreams !
Instead of the ordinary dinner at the restaurant enjoy private cooking class with Joanna, fun&friendly chef and her easy-to-make French cuisine recipes. She arrived in France with unlimited curiosity and a big appetite. Her appetite for ingredients takes her all over France from Provence to Paris to taste new products and to meet the passionate chefs and farmers who produce them. Now She invites You to share gained knowledge and enthusiasm for French cuisine !
She'll explain you the meaning of the French culinary art. Oh yes - this is a real art ! In France, the pleasure of a meal derives both : from the food and the fact that we share our meals. She'll share with you more : a part of local Parisian life.
We'll cook lunch or dinner as friends : over stories and experiences in the classic style Parisian house originally built in the eighteenth century ! In the bohemian Latin Quarter, with the breathtaking
view of the Luxembourg
Gardens,
French
Senat
and the
Eiffel
Tower
behind!
How it works ?
Before the day of your Parisian lunch/dinner you'll choose dishes you want to prepare from the list which I'll send to you. If you have a special request to prepare a dish which is not on the list but you always wanted try to do it, we can prepare this dish.
On your cooking day we'll explore local shops: a cheese shop , bakery,
butcher shop and local open-air fresh food market. French cuisine focuses on quality ingredients. A tour of the local shops is an excellent way to meet authentic Parisians and authentic Paris. I will explain you the history of the Latin Quarter, some of its famous inhabitants, so you'll understand what makes this quarter of Paris so charming.
After shopping, talking and selecting the best ingredients
( about 2 hours) we'll come to the wonderful Parisian home, over a glass of wine discuss the menu and start to cook. You will get to work preparing a three-course feast !
The classes finishes with a delicious meal you cook. You will enjoy one of the best views from the window in your life and interesting discussion about food and Paris
basically.
I will give you the recipes
all dishes
we cook together, so
you can prepare
Parisian dinner
wherever you are !
This is a delicious way
to bring
a little bit Paris into your
own home.
Sample Menus :
Starters :
French Onion
Soup
Baked Camemberd
with
fresh rosemary
Egg A la Parisienne
Mussels in white wine
L' Endivie salat
Main courses :
Blanquette of veal
Duck Breast
with
Pepper Red Wine Sauce
Sautéed potatoes
Chicken in wine
Stuffed Cod with Asparagus
Raclette
Steak in pepper sauce
Ratatouille
Desserts :
Crème brûlée
Moelleux au chocolat with vanilla ice cream
Crêpes ( French Pancakes ) with chestnut cream or chocolate
Joanna's Tarte Tatin ( Apple Pie )
Compose your three-course meal with me (Joanna) !
Exemplary option:
Starter
Baked Camembert Cheese with garlic rosemary and walnuts
Main Course
Blanquette of veal
Dessert
Moelleux au Chocolat with vanilla ice creams
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Recipes from our Fun
& Friendly kitchen
The best Parisian hot chocolate
We are addicted to chocolate. Seriously. Day without a cup of velvet chocolate is imposible. After testing of all Parisian places with hot chocolate, consultations with best French Pastry experts and well, training in their workplaces, even peeping their time making chocolate and well many unsuccessful tries, we found the perfect way to do it!
You need :
- Someone to cooperation in making chocolate and drinking chocolate
- Good music that gives rhythm to mix ingredients for chocolate. We don't recommend in this case the French classics like Edith Piaf. Serge Gainsbourg can work but the best will Bruce Springsteen.
- Kitchen in Paris, the best in the Latin Quarter. In this district is located our chocolate temple Un Dimanche a Paris. We trust only chocolate from this pastry store because chef Pierre Cluizel and his pastry team are the best!
- 6 ounces magic chocolate from the
Un Dimanche a Paris pastry shop
- a medium-sized pot
- 3 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 3 cups milk
- Lightly sweetened whipped cream
- pinch of cinnamon
How to do it :
Break the chocolate into small pieces. For this action you will need a Beethoven symphony. Bring ¾ cup of milk to a simmer in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat. Whisk in 3 Tbsp. cocoa powder until no lumps remain, then add milk and return to a simmer. Whisk in chocolate and sugar and cook. Whisk frequently. Add cinnamon. Again whisk frequently. Here you need Bruce Springsteen until mixture will be smooth and creamy and chocolate is melted. It takes about 5 minutes so Dancing in the Dark is perfect.
Divide hot chocolate among mugs. Top with whipped cream and dust with cocoa powder. Go onto the balcony and enjoy the view of Paris drinking your parisian chocolate. If you are in New York, Atlanta or in Cracow enjoy the view of these cities drinking your parisian hot chocolate.
Joanna's Tarte Tatin
Embedded in a delicious caramel apples and delicate cake
-This is exactly the Tarte Tatin. The cake French are the most proud of. There is even a museum dedicated to this cake.
The tarte Tatin was created accidentally at the Hotel Tatin about 100 miles (160 km) south of Paris, in the 1880s. The hotel was run by two sisters, Stéphanie and Caroline Tatin. There are conflicting stories concerning the tart's origin, but the most common is that Stéphanie Tatin, who did most of the cooking, was overworked one day. She started to make a traditional apple pie but left the apples cooking in butter and sugar for too long. Smelling the burning, she tried to rescue the dish by putting the pastry base on top of the pan of apples, quickly finishing the cooking by putting the whole pan in the oven. After turning out the upside down tart, she was surprised to find how much the hotel guests appreciated the dessert.
I do this cake exactly in the same way and always tastes amazing.
Bon Appetit : )
Duration : 5 H
Total Cost :
11 0 euro
( cooking classes
+
the cost of ingredients
for two students )
For more information
& To book
contact
us at :
j.werynska@gmail.com
Joanna's Fun & Friendly Tours of Paris
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