Making Lemon Tarts

Posted on by Ian C.

Yes it’s Le Petit Paris time again! Busy work week so for a break I last minute joined this afternoons class [workshop] at Le Petit Paris to have fun making lemon [meringue] tarts (here’s a link to their class details in case you want to try one).

The lemon tarts were of course more than they could be – Stefan always wants to teach and today we had five maybe six steps before the final assembly (and the order in the workshop was different for time management). The workshop included making sweet pastry dough, genoise sponge, lime jelly, lemon/lime cream filling, and Italian meringue. The photos below give an idea of what we spent the afternoon doing …

Once again fun, educational, and tasty – here’s one tart that I enjoyed this evening:

And here are some video clips I took during the afternoon, showing some of the steps that Stefan demonstrated to us …

Chase Sanctuary VIP tour

Posted on by Ian C.

Yesterday afternoon we visited Chase Sanctuary to enjoy a VIP tour that they offer – it’s expensive but the two hours we spent with lemurs, anteaters, sloths and other animals, was a fabulous time!

We began with a presentation of what Chase Sanctuary does, then walked past red ruffed lemurs and some monkeys, into a caged area where we were allowed to interact with and feed the ring tailed lemurs – they seemed very interested in us too!

Next we saw some kangaroos, and “birthday girl” Margaret was allowed to feed one:

There were some black and white ruffed lemurs that we met and fed, in the same area where we fed sloths (see the later video for sloths):

We finished our day with anteaters, including Margaret feeding one of them again:

I also took a lot of video, so here it is: