was getting a new cell phone. One that I could program to play my favorite Rob Thomas song as my ringtone. But, I digress. This is supposed to be a blog about my culinary schooling.
The past two weeks have been seven days of awful and one day of goodness. We're two days in to our practical exam in breads class. The first day, we forgot to convert the formula for our ciabatta down to 5 lbs, so we were racing to do that before we could get anything into the mixer. Then there was a problem with our corn muffins. Corn muffins, of all things. We had to redo them the next day. But, we did get 100% on our ciabatta. We're doing pretty well, with two 90's and two 100's on our graded items so far. Tomorrow is baguettes and soft rolls for my table. plus date-nut bread and croissants (the last two not for a grade). An easy day compared to Thursday, when we had 4 yeasted doughs to make up, plus biscuits and corn muffins, and the laminating of croissants.
This long weekend has been full of "busy" schoolwork. We have to keep these portfolios that are due on Wednesday, and we have to type up all our formulas and class notes, plus keep a daily journal. And we have to put pictures in with the formulas. So, I spent yesterday doing that only to find out that I apparently forgot my camera more often than I thought I did. I'm missing pictures of about 20 items, so now I'm waiting for my tablemates to email me what I'm missing. I just need to get my resume fixed, and then that can get crossed off my list too.
Thursday we start our next class, Classical French Pastries. I'll be interested to see how the table assignments bread down... every chef has a different way of doing things.
Wish me luck in the last of our practical!
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