Thanksgiving Cooking Lessons With Chef Julie

 

Today, I went to Chef Julie's Cooking Class and helped make a Thanksgiving Feast. The feast included:

• Harvest salad
• Stuffing w/ dried apricots, pistachios, & herbs
• Apple cider brined turkey rubbed w/ herb butter
• Pomegranate- cranberry glaze
• Shaved brussel sprouts w/ shitake mushrooms & sage
• Chocolate bourbon pecan pie

Birthday Cupcakes

I try to take every opportunity to practice baking by making cupcakes for special occasions such as dinner parties, birthdays etc. Recently, I got an order for homemade birthday cupcakes for my friend D'Vaughn. She wanted yellow cupcakes will chocolate cream cheese frosting. So I found some recipes on foodnetwork.com and followed the instructions exactly. The cupcakes turned out a bit dense but I added some sugar syrup and let them moisten overnight. Overall I am satisfied with the way they turned out and everyone enjoyed them. :)