La Cuisine Paris

 When you paint someone's cat in Paris you never know where it will lead...

 What good luck to have painted Canadian food blogger, Mardi of Eat-live-travel-write darling cat, Cleo a few years ago...

 Mardi spends many summers in France and was teaching cooking classes at La Cuisine Paris this year.

 Mardi kindly invited me to attend a recipe testing class making classic French tarte tatin and quiche Lorraine.

Your favorite baking flop

 Was happy to be surrounded

 By far more experienced bakers.

 I volunteered to peel the pommes/apples for the tarte and grate the Gruyere for the quiche.

 Enhale the carmelizing apple slices (my handiwork!).

 Who knew nutmeg/muscade and cayenne were essential ingredients in a quiche Lorraine?

 Mardi successfully turns out the tarte tatin from it's pan - quite an accomplishment.

 The aromas are to-die-for.



And the taste of the quiches - absolutement authentique!



 The following weekend K. at Chateau du Petit Thouars made a perfect quiche Lorraine exactly like Mardi's (which I somehow forgot to shoot. Unforgivable!).

 Today L. emailed me a picture of her gorgeous cat, Corky to send to Paris. At least I can paint cats if not bake...

I'm also now an expert at eating tarte tatin thanks to Mardi and La Cuisine Paris!