cooking is an art too.....why not to learn to make chocolate mousse???

Hi
I propose a little cooking class....no concurrence with Nelly and the official cooking class of the IWAp
but there are things you can't prepare at these classes because of the time it need to be in the fridge for example...
I'm from Belgium...and you know we love chocolate (the real/good one of course)
I propose to learn to some of you how to prepare chocolate mousse...it could be at my house..I live in Fox Chapel...(I could pick up certain of you...we have to organize it)..
I could take between 5 and 8 people for the activity
I would buy all the ingredients and would just ask the price of them ( divided by the number of participants...so cheap because we just need chocolate,sugar and eggs)
I would propose to do it for example on March 4th ( sorry before i'm very busy) in the morning...
the ones who would be interested send me a message on my mp address...please don't be shy...it is an opportunity to meet eachother outside of the church....
hope to see reactions.....to see if this forum is really working!!!!!(by the way thanks again to Lina for all her work on this and the same to Aurelie and Kazu)
catherine

Catherine,

this is really kind of you. I love the idea and I would like to sign up if there is still space available.

Thank you for your offer.

( I don't know your email address)

hi Radka
great that you are able to come!!!
for a personal answer you should go on "memberlist" and you click on MP (personal address) and the email will come to me....i had already another reaction on this way...it works!!!

by the way I wanted to say that I proposed march 4th but i'm not sure that there is no other activity of the iwap on the same day (field trip maybe)....if we can't do it on the 4th ,I would do it on the 5th....(wednesday).....no problem!!:-)
i'll confirm everything as soon as we know more abt the march programm of the iwap..
and a few days before the day we'll choose i'll send to all the participants my coordinates by email and we'll organize the transportaion upto fox chapel...

see you soon
catherine

catherine ch. wrote:....
hope to see reactions.....to see if this forum is really working!!!!!(by the way thanks again to Lina for all her work on this and the same to Aurelie and Kazu)
catherine

Thanks Catherine ! I hope that the forum will be working too...

There is also a MP button (private message) under Catherine's profile next to all her messages.

catherine ch. wrote:Hi
I propose a little cooking class....no concurrence with Nelly and the official cooking class of the IWAp
but there are things you can't prepare at these classes because of the time it need to be in the fridge for example...
I'm from Belgium...and you know we love chocolate (the real/good one of course)
I propose to learn to some of you how to prepare chocolate mousse...it could be at my house..I live in Fox Chapel...(I could pick up certain of you...we have to organize it)..
I could take between 5 and 8 people for the activity
I would buy all the ingredients and would just ask the price of them ( divided by the number of participants...so cheap because we just need chocolate,sugar and eggs)
I would propose to do it for example on March 4th ( sorry before i'm very busy) in the morning...
the ones who would be interested send me a message on my mp address...please don't be shy...it is an opportunity to meet eachother outside of the church....
hope to see reactions.....to see if this forum is really working!!!!!(by the way thanks again to Lina for all her work on this and the same to Aurelie and Kazu)



catherine

Hi Catherine...I would have loved to come , really, but I will definitly eat Charles Gervais chocolate nousse in France on the 4th of March...will do something else......

Hi Catherine,

I am a chocoholic, and I would like to sign up this class. Thank you very much, see you Thursday.


Linda

Hi Catherine,

I would love to join you but I think it will be on Tuesday and it will be difficult for me.......so as I said Martine...will do something else!!!

Bon Appetit!

Bye
Frederique

frederique
not sure it will be a tuesday...depends on the march programm of the iwap....if nothing else..tuesday...if a field trip on this day...the wednesday....so wait and see
catherine

because there is no field trip on march 4th....i'll keep this date for the mousse au chocolat
so tuesday march 4th!!!
i'll send the route description + my coordinates to the ones who registered...
see you soon
catherine

Chocolate mousse??? Oh, boy~~~ I'm just obsessed with it~~~!!!
You know, you can't have such a nice cooking class unless you are specializing in baker. What a good chance!
Please count me in, Catherine!!!.... if there is a still available spot for me~~!!!
Thank you!!

no problem...you are on the list...i'll send you my coordinates at the end of february(address + route description)
do you have a car or do you need a ride??
catherine

for the moment i have 7 people who should come to prepare the mousse....i hope they will come...
any other volunteer??/ it will be on march 4th!!
catherine

Just want to let you know that I put your meeting on the calendar.

Hi Catherine,

I will come for the lesson. See you tomorrow.

Linda

for all the people who signed up.....

i sent to everybody the route description and my coordinates...
if somebody didn't receive them send me a message!!!( see mp on my profile)

i forgot to say that everybody has to take a recipient to bring the mousse back home....a tupperware or something equivalent would be perfect!!!

see you on tuesday

catherine

I had a lot of fun today at my house...we were ten....and i believe that everybody really enjoyed it
we should do it again...with something else to cook or bake...
hereunder the recipe for the mousse

Just like promised here the proportions of the mousse



+/- 60 gr chocolate (I used 1/2 dark and 1/2 milk chocolate but you can try just dark or bitter or even just milk chocolate…)

2 eggs

2 tablespoons of sugar (powder sugar)



Let melt the chocolate in a “bain marie”

Separate the yolks and the white of the eggs

Mix all the yolks(yellow of the eggs) with the sugar

And beat the whites of eggs stiff

When the chocolate is melted ,mix it with the yolks/sugar

And after just spoon by spoon –very carefully - add the stiff eggs to the chocolate …don’t “break” them….

The patience is the secret of the good mousse!!

When finished put in the fridge



It is better to prepare the mousse a few hours/or the day before


en enjoy it!!!
catherine

Hi Catharine,
i really enjoyed today. I wanna thank you for this nice, great day. And i eat only chocolate mousse for dinner today.
See you on Thursday.
Greetz Regina.

Thank you Catherine.

It was a lot of fun. My daughter loved the mousse.