Crazy Week...

Well, this week in Baking & Pastry has been a little boring. ...What else is new? We made danishes from scratch - actually, everything we do at school is "from scratch", I just want ya'll to understand that there are no cans of 'Cream of This' soup, or canned veggies, or frozen dough that we just thaw and roll out, etc. WE. MAKE. EVERYTHING. I've posted a picture of Chef Lim demonstrating the technique for our danish dough. If you look closely, you can see that there is a layer of dough on the bottom, and another layer on top of that... That second layer is over a POUND of butter! Cool, huh? :) Yummy, too! They turned out really great. I was proud.

Today, we made a fresh fruit tart. Really pretty, like something you see in the bakery case for like $25. But, I don't eat that, so I just gave it to the family I live with. Hope they enjoy it!

All my friends and I went to a "Skills Enhancement" class today after our normal class. I've posted a couple of pics of us playing with fire! :) We worked on sauces, by the way...

Tomorrow night, a few of us are competing against each other in our own version of "Iron Chef." Bring it. We. Will. Rock. It. And, I'll take pics!

I know, I know. It's been awhile.

Ok, so maybe I'm not as good at this as I thought I would be. :) I've got so much going on, it's ridiculous. I started Baking & Pastry last Monday when we went back to school from the holidays. Last week was all breads. My friends and I all agree that it's a little boring. Basically, we're mixing dough, then waiting for it to proof and then bake. So, there's definitely a little more free time.
We did make pizza last week, that was pretty good. We've made baguettes, sourdough, brioche, wheat rolls, rye bread (yucky), blueberry muffins (yum), beignets (!!!!), and much more to come.
The pics are of my pizza, we weren't graded on it. It was just for fun. All the bread in the class - thought it was pretty impressive. Beignets - after eating a couple, first :). And my BEAUTIFUL muffins, which were divine...
I'll try to do a little better with this. :)