“Kwablo’s Place”
OUR APARTMENT IN HARLEM
Earlier this week, I had a wonderful opportunity to attend and participate in a virtual baking class through Yelp Elite.
Chef Mel, a 2X winner of Chopped, took us through the process of making macarons (https://www.bakeitwithmel.com/). Overall, the event was kind of cool, but I admit that the class sometimes was a bit difficult to follow. This had nothing to do with Chef Mel, but because there were 130+ people in the Zoom room. I guess these types of things are better in smaller groups.
Within the first moments of the class, the instructions were kind of intense so I prepared myself a “get it together” cocktail. I was a bit of a struggle, even with chef hubby’s help, but I think I was about average compared to the rest of the Yelp Elite party. Why do I have to make everything a competition? When my macarons were finished some people were still on the first step of making the merengue. For the most part, my result looked like actual macarons.
-Overall, the event was very fun even with the somewhat difficult recipe.
-Chef Mel was really nice and a great instructor. Although the event ended around 9 pm, she was willing to hang out to help the folks that were struggling. She even gave folks the option to message her after the event if they were still having trouble with the recipe. You can check out her website where she sells her at-home baking kits (Link: ***).
-The cohost of the event was kinda annoying because he would talk over Chef Mel while she was giving instructions. I think he was supposed to assist her, but it was like he was trying to take over the event. Also, he was trying way too hard to be funny. MAN, just tell us for hold we have to caramelize the sugar and leave it at that.
-Next time, I think that I’ll just buy my macarons instead of making them. It was a lot of work (maybe not that much) and a lot of dirty dishes for 10 macarons.
-Shoot there was something else. Oh well, I guess it was that import
Happy week before Christmas.