No problem, I thought. I'm French, this should be a breeze. We'll throw together a meat pie. A traditional French dish usually served around the holidays. What could be better...meat made into a pie! Yummy and easy enough to make!!
Then he told me his teacher had given him a list of recipes that he could choose from. Hmmmm, no meat pies on the list. Ok. We'll make the chocolate mousse. Calls for 3 ingredients. We can do this!
Nope. Nate decided he wanted to make the cream puffs. All I could think of was the cream puffs we use to get at Wright's Dairy Farm when I was a kid. So perfect you didn't want to eat them and when you did it was heaven! How could any cream puff compare?!
I looked over the recipe. It had the longest list of instructions of all the recipes. Not sure if this was something we should attempt. Especially since the plan is to feed it to other people. But he insisted.
We decided to do a trial run to make sure we could handle this. I may be French and I may occasionally dabble in some baking, but one thing I am not is a French pastry chef!
We gathered the ingredients. I told Nate since this is his homework, he needed to do the baking. I would assist if he needed any help. So he started his project. I thought twice about leaving him on his own the minute I saw the destruction in my kitchen.......
But I just left him to what he was doing and reminded myself that everything is washable! For the most part, he did it all on his own. I only added a bit of assistance to the project. The final outcome wasn't as pretty as the cream puffs from my childhood.....
....... but they were pretty tasty! And Nate was happy with his accomplishment! The trial run was a success (or at least successful enough) that Nate will be making more cream puffs for his class!
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