I'm supposed to be packing for my San Diego trip but I'm putting that off for the time being to do something else I've been putting off: Posting my ( backlog of culinary school projects. )

Wow, it's been a month since my last entry. Eh, it's not like I have much to report. I've mostly been working at my externship site, Swiss Delices. I'm four weeks into the six-week "class" (we're receiving grades for the experience and we have to submit time sheets and journals as a way of keeping attendance) so I feel like I've just about gotten ( Read more... )

Chocolate will be the death of me, and not in the fun "I just gorged myself on five pounds of it" kind of way. It's more like a "I can't temper this shit and when I do I can't dip my candies satisfactorily so that Chef Devon won't yell at me" way. There's a reason why this class is the last one in the curriculum. It's insanely challenging because ( Read more... )

i. My class spent the last two days constructing croquenbouches, or French cakes made out of cream puffs. I wanted to make a Dalek cake because, well, with their conical shape and the fact that they've an abundance of dome-shaped bits, croquenbouche already kind of look like Daleks. Throw in a whisk for the plunger and you've got the Doctor's worst ( Read more... )

You guys wanted food porn? I'll give you food porn. Today was the last day of the current term, and the last two competencies for my Advanced Pastries class was to make two different cookies made from different mixing and prepping methods. Well, there are about 20 people in my class, so multiply that by 2 and you get a shitload of cookies. Hence, a ( Read more... )

Reason #136 why I love culinary school: Where else will you hear an instructor say, "Do we not have a choice of vodka ( Read more... )

If you've been my friend long enough, you know that I make it a point to attend the San Francisco Chocolate Festival at Ghirardelli Square every year. And then I post about it because that's just how I do.

In the supposed words of Liz Lemon: ( Chocolate chocolate chocolate, ack! )

I literally have no thoughts about the Emmys to share besides the fact that Jon Hamm needs to do more comedy. The man is good at being a goof and he knows how to look good doing it. Like Betty White said, back that mother up!

Anyway... shall we move on to the usual showcase of baked goods?

( Week 8 )

In the past six weeks I have managed something that I suspect is rare for culinary students: I lost weight. Reasons for this ( Read more... )

No school today! Hooray for three-day weekends made possible by faculty work days! I had every intention of sleeping in, but I still ended up waking at 6:30am. It's a good two hours later than the time I usually wake, but I still don't think that waking at anything before 8:00 merits the term "sleeping in ( Read more... )