Culture Club

We have had some great Culture Club activities these

last few months. Its been so great, learning new things

and having such a great time while doing so. We had a

chocolate night hosted by the Durtschies which was

amazing. Eric is in the chocolate business and taught us

a lot of what he knows about the origins and processing

of Cacao beans. He discussed all the positive effects of

eating chocolate (which was good to hear since I can

never help from eating as much as I do) and we had a

chocolate tasting. It was incredible to taste how chocolate

made from beans that were gown in different areas tasted

so different.

We then hand rolled truffles and made Reece's (excuse me

Reese's) peanut buttercups.

We learned some great tools to work chocolate with.

Never thought of using syringes.

Crystal was great at melting chocolate.... with her hands.

Another month we attended the art and soup celebration.

An event where all the restaurants in UT set up stalls and

pass out samples of their favorite soups off their menus.

Then there are local artists painting and auctioning off

their work. We enjoyed partaking in the tasty and visual

genius of others.

The thai stall won in best presentation but worst tasting soup.

My favorite soup was a tomato from Olios restaurant.

After having all those salty and savory soups I was longing

for something sweet, too bad many of the stalls just lured me

in with sweet-display-only decor. Good thing after the evening

of soup we went out for a late night run to get Passion Fruit

Iced Teas from Barns Noble.