Thyme for second day!

So I'm still trying to figure out how to upload pictures to my blog..I'm going to start writing because I have to go to bed soon and I'm not sure if I'll be able to get the pictures together in time..anyways I woke up at a wopping 7:00 this morning, it was terrible and I had no idea where I was at first so I went through that whole 'whatttt?' thing. And then went on to make a delicious breakfast which I described in the earlier post. After breakfast we all loaded into the cars. We all like to argue over which car is the 'party car' but I'm convinced the car that I'm in is always the party car. We went to Vimala's for lunch,

she is one of the most amazing, beautiful, genuine, and talented people I have ever met. We used only the most fresh, delicious, and local ingredients for our recipes. 

We helped prep the food for lunch.

She taught me so many things which I wrote down in my handy dandy notebook, she also gave us a handout with recipes, which I am so excited about.  She made us delicious food while we listened to her talk about stories about food and give us cooking tips. Here is the food:

My favorite part of the meal was the chicken. I picked up a lot of tips that I plan to use in my cooking but the two that I think stuck most were to put cardimum in my brownies when I'm creaming the butter in sugar because it gives them a fruity kick and lavender lemonade.

 mmmm. In a couple of weeks I'm visiting some friends in Portland and I've been collecting recipes to cook for them, I'm really excited, I think they're going to love the recipes I've put together. After the curryblossom cafe, we went to a homestead in Chapel Hill which was so much fun. I got to milk a goat! And play with the baby goat, patches.

And i would love to be modest here...but I can't! I got it on like the first try. I am a master. We also learned how to make goat cheese, so delicious! 

And we made lip balm which was a lot of fun.

 Learning about all this stuff on the homestead made me really want to live on the farm. I really feel most happy when I'm close to nature. For dinner we had grilled zuchinni flan, chicken and dumplins, carolina style, sweet potato biscuits, and ginger chess pie.Tonight was the first night we cooked in the C'est si bon kitchen. It was really nice. The knifes were really sharp, which I'm not used to. And the food was delicious and fresh from the garden. I have to say I thought the zuchini flan was going to be disgusting, I wasn't looking forward to it, I had my plan all layed out how I was going to pretend to eat it and secretly slip it under my plate. But I have to say it was quite a pleasant surprise. It was a lot like a mini quiche, and the prosciutto was delicious. It's definitely on my menu for Portland. The chicken and dumplin soup I didn't really like too much, yet again I'm not really that much of a soup fan except for the ones in the Julia Child cookbook that are coated in cream. The sweet potato biscuits and ginger chess pie, I was in charge of with salt boy and Victoria. The sweet potato biscuits were actually pretty yummy, but the pie just had way too much salt and it was pretty gross. Everybody thought it was okay but it was actually pretty gross. So excited for tommorow. ciao!