Gougères and soup.

Last night, I made some Gougères, a French savory choux pastry with cheese (I used a French Gruyère from Trader Joe's). I got the recipe from my friend Maia.

Here are all my ingredients (minus the salt).

Here, we have the milk, butter, flour and salt after they've been cooked, stirred and turned into a ball.

Then, we add the eggs and the cheese.

Then comes the part when Julia can help: "paint" some eggs and add more cheese on top! She really enjoyed doing that!

And here they are out of the oven, in all their deliciously cheesy goodness!

The only issue I had is that they kind of deflated a bit after they were out of the oven for a few minutes. Maia and I are looking into this and I will make them again soon until I get it just right!

Here is the soup I made to go with it. It was a simple vegetable soup with potatoes, corn, leeks, onion and celery.

Julia said that it was very yummy if you dipped it in the soup!