Bryan’s 25th Birthday

above: making crackers

June 10th was Bryan’s 25th birthday and I had a whole day of excitement planned. We were going to go to lunch before rock climbing and then to cooking classes. Well Bryan had too much work to do so we were not able to go rock climbing. Instead we went to Fashion Island for about an hour and bought some clothes before the cooking “lessons” at Sur La Table in Newport. Bryan was not excited about the cooking class when he found out where it was taking place. He thought it was going to be a bunch of “Newport moms” and not a professional chef training class. Unfortunately he was right, and it was totally lame. My bad! It was basically a private promotional night for the store to intimately hawk their products. It was not so much a lesson, but a photocopy of recipes and pre-bought ingredients out on a table. We basically rented a kitchen that we had to share with irritating Newport moms (the lady in the middle was especially irritating) and didn’t really learn anything. It was very overpriced for what it was and I suggest that you DO NOT take a class there.

Oh yeah, the class was on the cuisine of Southern France, in case you cared. Sorry Bryan! I love you!