Monday, October 20, 2008

This week in class is a quiz on custards and creams. We aso have midterm. Then we dicussed the lab we will be working on in class on Wednesday. Which will be desserts and sauces. Creme Anglais, Flan (which is one of my friends favorites), and Creme Brulee.
We went. I actually had a great time. I learned about how long bread can last compared to the ones in the stores. They use natural ingredients and grind their own wheat at the bread company. Where stores have alot of preservatives in theirs. I tried some knew kinds of bread and even bought some. They even sell all natural treats for your dogs there. Then we all went to Dan Mcgee's in Frankfort. It is knew but well worth your time to find the place. It is a small quaint place located on Route 30. He does not have a huge menu but that is ok, because with the food that is on the menu I don't think you could go wrong with whatever choice you pick. It was a great place that i will definitely go to again.
This week in class we had a quiz and went over the field trip we are going on Wednesday. We are going to the Great Harvest Bread Company, and to Dan mcgee's restuarant in Frankfort. I am excited to be going to a restuarant with a experienced Chef cooking for us.I will let you know how it turns out.





This week in lab I missed the lab. But I did find some more pictures that are examples of the type of pies you can make. A lattace and a crumb topping and a design closed topped crust are just a couple of way you can make a pie look different. Also can give you a choice of alot or a little crust.






This week in class we are doing pies. For our Wednesday Lab we are making flaky dough, sweet dough, crumb crust, pastry cream, apple cranberry pie, banana cream pie and fresh fruit tartlets. We took a quiz and discussed the chapter on pies and custards and creams. I myself due to an illness missed class and lab, but heard they had a good class. So here are some pictures of some different pies that I found, and there are examples of some of the different crust .

Thursday, October 2, 2008




What happened this week i studied for the wrong chapter for our quiz on monday. I out-lined the chapter and studied to only find out it was the wrong chapter an hour befor I had class. Thank god it was a short chapter. I had just enough time to out-line and study a little before the quiz. I did pretty good on the quiz. I was looking forward to class this week we were doing bread, we made Focaccia, rye bread and challah. Also sticky buns. Half of the students did sticky bun and the other half was to do challah. My partner and i decided Challeh because it seemeddifferent. It was fun I made the dough to soupy at first and we were calling it yoguart bread. It turn out alright at the end od the night. I think during this class we learned how long it takes to make breads by hand, and why there are not so many bakers anymore. It is alot of hard work and waiting.

As for some of the other student they had sticky buns.

Challeh is the one my partner wanted to make.


This week we were all pressed for time. We were dealing with quik breads. Not so quick, we ran past the end of class. I was fun and interesting. I am not very good at bread. We started with a rye recipe in which my partner Kim was on top of that, as i proceeded to start the Challah bread. It first started to look like yoguart bread. Atleast the is what we called it. We also made fricoccia. That reminded me of pizza making.The end results our bread were not perfect but for being beginners we did alright in my book.