New cooking tour in Provence: a fun group!
We are now in Saint Remy de Provence and a new group has arrived for….cooking in Provence.
Everyone has received an apron to be ready for the cooking sessions:
Today we went to an educative farm where we cooked a ratatouille, a typical Provencal dish. But first, we needed to go and pick up the veggies in the garden: eggplants, zucchinis, tomatoes, purple basil, pepers and more. Some were not small although everything is organic.
The farm has many different species of each veggies. For example, the tomatoes: you can see on the picture below some of the tomatoes we used for our salad: green tomatoes, black tomatoes, pineapple tomatoes, moroccan tomatoes, roma tomatoes and some whom I forgot the names:
Everyone took part of the cooking, even Stephanie who doesn’t eat tomatoes and Sherri who doesn’t care about cooking but only about eating:
September is also the time for the harvest of the grapes. That is what we did. We used the grapes along with figues and apples to make a fruit clafuti.
As for me, besides doing the translation, I picked up little tiny flowers…
Check the complete itinerary of our cooking tour in Provence.
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September 25th, 2012 at 8:37 pm
You all look terrific with your cooking outfits ! Keep on having fun !
September 26th, 2012 at 1:19 pm
Yum! I can almost smell it cooking! Looks like lots of fun! I would be the one there for the eating too, Sherry!