Did any of you win the heart of your significant other through your cooking? What did you cook?

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St. Honore I met my future wife wife while we were both taking pastry classes at the Cordon Bleu in Paris, 25 years ago. We worked at adjacent tables. I had contented myself with the occasional furtive glance in her direction, but was too shy to say much beyond the niceties.

That might have been the end of it were it not for the fact that, being 4' 10" "tall", she was constantly asking me to reach things up on the shelves (still does, for that matter). That broke the ice, and over the following weeks we chatted more and more, then started sharing our favorite spots in Paris with each other. By the time the class was coming to a close, I was hopelessly besotted with what sure felt like love.

On the final day of class, we had to pass a practical exam. Each student was given a specific pastry to make in a couple of hours, without recourse to recipes or notes. For the most part, the assignments turned out to be easier than people were expecting, but when I looked at mine, my heart fell.

The instructor had been making casual passes at my new love interest since classes had begun, and I had noticed that things had gotten a bit chillier between me and him as my relations with "l'americaine" had warmed. Well, he had assigned me the most complex, pain-in-the-butt pastry we had learned, a cake called the St.Honore. This is a very old-fashioned pastry that was named for the patron saint of pastry chefs (the French have a patron saint for everybody).

It's meant to be a showcase for the chef's skills because it combines so many different elements in one cake: puff pastry, choux paste, creme chibouste, creme patissiere, caramel...I had no choice but to dive right in; it would be everything I could do to get all this done in the alotted time. Things went well til I got to the choux paste, which I had made dozens of times before. I somehow managed to put in double the correct amount of salt, which I didn't discover until the paste was already baked.

They tasted unbelievably salty. I went into panic mode, of course. "L'americaine" picked up on this, and, having already finished whatever dumb little cookie she had been assigned, she began surreptitiously helping me regroup and carry on.It went down to the wire, but with her help the St. Honore became a reality.

Looking back, that was surely the episode that cemented whatever little thing "l'americaine" and I had going on. We were married in London 2 months later, in fact. I've never made a St.Honore since.

I think it helped! I'm a caterer, and so I have an unfair advantage, but our very first meeting was a picnic with gourmet wraps and salads, chocolate dipped berries and pastries, complimented by some very nice pinot grigio that he brought. When I got to cook for him at my house, I made a pesto and pecan crusted rack of lamb, roasted red bliss potatoes with frizzled onions, and sauteed sugar snap peas.

Chocolate raspberry cake for dessert. I really do enjoy cooking for him; at 4:AM this morning, I was making a "to go" egg, spinach and feta sandwich on a hard roll (he'd driven three hours the day before to spend a day together, and was leaving to drive home to work.....) coffee, and cheesecake. Have I actually "won" his heart yet?

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1 HarpOnMe, regarding your answer "St. Honore": Wow! What a wonderful story! You should write a book AND a movie about that!.

HarpOnMe, regarding your answer "St. Honore": Wow! What a wonderful story! You should write a book AND a movie about that!

2 HarpOnMe, regarding your answer "St. Honore": I agree! That is SUCH a sweet story!

HarpOnMe, regarding your answer "St. Honore": I agree! That is SUCH a sweet story!

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