"I just got back from France where I got to bake in my food idol's kitchen," says the YouTube cooking star

Popular cooking vlogger Rosanna Pansino has accomplished #cookinggoals.

“I just got back from France where I got to bake in my food idol’s kitchen,” the YouTube star, 31, tells PEOPLE exclusively.

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“I am a huge fan of Julia Child,” continues Pansino. “She was fearless in the kitchen, and I just recently booked her former French cottage where she wrote the cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking: Volume 2.”

“It was my first time in France and I absolutely loved it,” she says. “The best part about the cottage itself was definitely the kitchen. Not only is it a historic room, but many of the same types of tools that Julia Child used are present. The hanging pegboard also made it extremely easy to find what you’re looking for, whether its a pizza cutter or a waffle iron.”

While at Child’s cottage, Pansino made Strawberry Sherbet and Pommes Anna using recipes from late TV cooking icon‘s cookbook and filmed a video for her YouTube channel, which debuted Saturday morning.

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“I wanted to make both a savory dish and a sweet dish from the cookbook she wrote while living at her cottage,” Pansino says. “The savory dish was Pommes Anna, which is a simple potato dish. The sweet dish was a simple Strawberry Sherbet. Both were delicious and it was a lot of fun recreating them in the same kitchen that Julia did.”