After returning from our long day of wine tasting, we hustled to the bakery about a quarter mile away for our Pastel de Nata baking class….where we showed up 20 minutes late. The typical Portugese response to my text to let him know we were running late “no worries!”.
There were 4 others taking the class and Joao (uh oh, hope I don’t end up calling him J-wow by accident) was our teacher. It’s a lot of fun to make these tasty custards, but without the professional equipment it can be a lot of work. Joao made sure everybody was fully involved in each step of the process, and we got to eat our products when we were done. No way I can eat more than one of these in a sitting though. Joao told he he made them once when he was a kid and ended up eating 24 of them! Holy moly!
A truly fun experience, and definitely the best Pastel de Nata’s we’ve had here in Portugal!
