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Cooking, Domestic, School

Pumpkins and Brioche

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We didn’t win the pumpkin carving competition in school. This was the finished product, the tongue of roasted red pepper grossed everyone out *grins* These were some of the others And this was the winner Chef is already coming up with plans for next year! It was a nice weekend. DmentD and I spent Saturday, […]

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Busy Busy Busy

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Laminated doughs has been good so far. We made 3 different types of puff pastry and then a whole host of items with them, palmiers, pitiviers, chaussons, band aux fruit, tart tatin, mille feulle, brie en croute, salmon en croute and lobster newberg. With the exam on chaussons and pitivier. It went alright, it’s certainly […]

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Three Day Exam

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So glad it’s over, though it went well. Tuesday this week was exam free, and we finished the battenburg, opera cake and petit four glace.. I love that opera cake so much, it tastes like tirimisu in cake form.. and I love tirimisu! Day one was mostly prep work, making as much as possible that […]

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It’s A Sad Day

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My exam on Friday… I got my lowest score yet in the practical exam… I only managed 190/200 *grins* I did however manage 102/100 in the theory! I lost the 10 points in the practical for my chocolate. 5 for it developing a fat bloom and 5 for having a bit too much on my […]

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Exam time

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Yes, it was that time of the week again! We started off by making our Pate Sucree for the tartlets before heading to the theory test.. It was interesting as it was our first exam with the different instructors and they do things a little differently. We weren’t allowed to start early, even if we […]

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End of Bread

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The day is here, tomorrow is my last day of bread. The last day of my first block. As of next week I’ll be in a different lab with a different Chef Instructor doing something completely different. It’s exciting And also a little scary! 6 weeks are over already, 1/6 of my class work is […]

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Drumroll if you please…

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I would like to introduce you to my newest creation. For class I had to create my own bread, to make and present in my final exam this Friday. After some playing and tinkering I have what I believe to be the winning formula. It still needs a few tweaks, mostly in presentation, and I’m […]

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Bread, more bread, market and driving!

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I am about to start the third and final week of bread, so I figured I ought to catch people up on this past week. Last week we were making ‘enriched’ doughs, a lot sweeter and richer than the ‘artisan’ breads of the first week. My exam on Friday went well, I got full marks […]

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Bread: Week One

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For those I haven’t already told I passed my first unit, BK101 with flying colours, getting an A. I finally found out my score for the last theory test today which was 102/100… Hooray for bonus questions! This week we started the bread unit (BK110) and it has been awesome! Milk rolls, white and wholewheat […]

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Asia Fest

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This weekend at the TCA was the 3rd annual Asian Food Festival. While not really interested in the rest of the weekend DmentD and I wanted to attend the classes run on the Saturday. They were all run by local chefs and it was all very interesting, and fun as well. We originally bought tickets […]