Adventures in Cooking

Last Friday night I had a craving for Creme Brulee, having tasted it for the first time a couple of weeks ago at Tucanos.  Mike Bell (Bryson's friend) was at our house waiting for him to get home from work and heard me talking about it. Mike decided we should make it and went to the store to get whipping cream.  He also brought over his double boiler and we started cooking.  Who knew it consisted of sugar, cream, eggs yolks and vanilla?  (So we won't make it again soon!)  But it was fun to experiment and try something new.  After it cooked in the oven and we put the sugar on top, Mike got out his blow torch and caramelized the topping.  Then it had to cool again.  It was worth the wait and was creamy and delicious with a crunchy sweet topping.  Does that make us gourmets??