{"id":1762,"date":"2011-07-17T04:28:52","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T11:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2011-07-17T04:30:20","modified_gmt":"2011-07-17T11:30:20","slug":"staying-warm-this-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/?p=1762","title":{"rendered":"Staying warm this winter"},"content":{"rendered":"

July seems to be a month when we stay indoors and enjoy the heater, a cup of tea, and some good home cooking.\u00c2\u00a0 This month we signed up for two cooking classes to make life more interesting.<\/p>\n

The first one was a Turkish mezze class at a local Turkish resturant.\u00c2\u00a0 We learned how to make 4 mezze dishes.\u00c2\u00a0 The idea of Turkish mezze is small starters that can be shared with friends and family.\u00c2\u00a0 Each dish was then paired with a sample of wine to match.<\/p>\n

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Goats cheese stuffed mushrooms<\/p><\/div>\n

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Scott helping prep the salmon tartar<\/p><\/div>\n

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Scott's salmon tartar<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00c2\u00a0The second course we took was a Chrsitmas present from Scott’s parents.\u00c2\u00a0 It was an all day\u00c2\u00a0French pastry course, so needless to say Scott was very excited. \u00c2\u00a0We learned how to make puff pastry, choux pastry, and lots of fillings to make a huge number of french\u00c2\u00a0pastries\u00c2\u00a0including palmier, mille feille, apple chausson, eclairs, and profiteroles.<\/p>\n

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In our aprons and ready to learn<\/p><\/div>\n

The class was really hands-on and we learned alot.<\/p>\n

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Scott learning how to make puff pastry from the teacher<\/p><\/div>\n

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Piping out eclairs<\/p><\/div>\n

The finished pastries got packed up and we got to take them home. \u00c2\u00a0We had a nice dinner and shared them with a couple of\u00c2\u00a0friends\u00c2\u00a0back at our place.<\/p>\n

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Finished elcairs with creme patisserie and strawberries<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

July seems to be a month when we stay indoors and enjoy the heater, a cup of tea, and some good home cooking.\u00c2\u00a0 This month we signed up for two cooking classes to make life more interesting. The first one was a Turkish mezze class at a local Turkish resturant.\u00c2\u00a0 We learned how to make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,55],"tags":[96,60,53],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-victoria-australia","tag-australia","tag-food","tag-victoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1777,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions\/1777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}