Right now it feels like as soon as I finish one we’re onto another… which is fairly close to how it’s happening!

The Filo exam on Friday went well, I was pleased with how I did. Everything worked out nicely, and candied pecans are in fact more delicious than you would anticipate!

Then we had a lovely three day weekend which was much appreciated! I spent a lot of time knitting, after the red hat which I posted pictures of I made a similar one for DmentD in a lovely wool with shades of browns and greys, very soft. Now I’m working on another hat (I seem to have a thing for them right now), this time a stocking cap, for me. My aim is to have it long enough to be able to use as a scarf while I’m wearing it.. as lets face it, if it’s cold enough for me to be wearing a hat I’ll be wanting a scarf too. It’s currently 3 feet long, and stripy.. and awesome *grins*

Yesterday and today was another exam, puff pastry. I made a vol au vent and filled it with chocolate custard and berries. I made a sugar tuile for it which was fun, it’s melted sugar and food colouring.

Tomorrow and Friday we start on the Apples and Pears exam. Apparently we’ll have to make a trio of desserts. We get a tasting tomorrow of various kinds. And of different types of apple and pear alcohol.. those of us who are over 21 that is!

There’s a chocolate competition coming up soon, I had a couple of Instructors tell me I should enter it. So I’m thinking of entering into the brownie and maybe the truffles categories.

I’ve been going cycling, that’s going well… well, better than it was! I hadn’t realised just quite how out of shape I was, and trying to push me and the bike around.. I didn’t get far. But I’ve been going for a couple of weeks now, and I intend to keep it up and I made it to a mile this week.

We have a resume workshop in class next Monday, but I beat people to it, I started getting Chef to look through mine last week. She’s worked as an executive chef and had to do what we always hear about, having 2 minutes to pick 10 resumes out of a pile, making that snap decision on how it looked, so I valued her opinion on how it should look. And apparently it’s worked, on the 2nd I have an interview for an externship *bounces* I’m going to try a couple of other places too, but it’s a good start and I’m glad I’ve gotten in ahead of the rest of my class, though a lot of them say they want to head out of state.

It made me happy to have someone reply and say yes, come see us!