Pate Feuilletee Inversee

Dartios
It's filled with an apple and fig compote



Vol au Vents
These aren't filled yet. I filled one in class with goat cheese and a tomato sauce. mmmmm.


Mille-Feuille
NAPOLEONS! yum!!!


I get to come home for the weekend and I'm so excited!
So ya, I'll be around.

I really just want chocolate

COOKIES!
no, I didn't make them


Gateau Pithiviers


Jalousie and little butterfly cookies


The reason I try not to take too many pastries home...

It used to be my birthdaiye.

Well thats the Bubble Lounge


And this is the Toad

I think that pretty much sums it up.

I miss everybody so much and I'll be able to see some of you this weekend! WOO! :)

whoa.

Chef Christopher's croquembouche.



My croquembouche




I know I have one in there somewhere. Please don't compare.


Austrian Dumplings. YUM!
As you can see, I already started eating them before I took the picture.


Three day weekend! WOO!

Then my birthday! WOO!

Crazy Balls and Cakes (new bakery name? hmm? HHMM???)

Cheese BALLS!! yum.



St. Honore Cake!


That cake really is crazy.

Tomorrow we're making a Croquembouche it's going to be insane.

PS All of you who were talking about how badly you wanted to eat this stuff...believe me, I'm eating enough for the both of us. So just be happy about that. And it's 6 days until my birthday! Whoa!

Pate A Choux

Swans!

Paris Brest!

I know, still no pastry pictures...SORRY!

Before...

After!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit.


OKAY! Pastries are on the menu for tomorrow's blog!
love you all! bye!

day 13

Well I took my written and practical yesterday.
Each test had a number on it, 1-5. Whichever number was on your test there was a list of things you had to make. So there were about 4 people making the same combination of things.

I had to make a large French Nut tart, two Chocolate Ganache tartlettes, and 5 spritz cookies.
I was completely lost for about 3 hours. Seriously I blacked out and some how I got everything done and I didn't even make a mess. And everything turned out good...not great. One of my tarts wasn't cooked enough (it wasn't raw but as my chef says "its not correct") and my mini tarts were rolled just a little too thick. But I think I did good for the first test.

At 3:30 today I have an appointment with Sweety and Holdfast tattoos.
That's right I'm getting tatted.
I'll post a before and after picture like...tonight or tomorrow.

I KNOW I KNOW, this is a pastry blog, but I thought I'd also share some interesting tidbits from my life.

PS: I'm making Eclairs today.

I have my first exam/practical on monday

We get lunch at school everyday...heres an example

Cowboy's and Coyote's shortbread cookies with candied orange/lemon peels and crystallized ginger! Oh and icing.



Linzer Torte!


I'm so happy it's Friday! I hope I do something fun tonight...

This will be brief.

A mini tarte tatin (layers of caramel, then apples, then the dough...cooked and flipped over)
Delicious.

nevermind

PS: Please enlarge this photo for full effect.

PSS: I just bought a ticket home for Feb 1st - 3rd!!! HANG OUT WITH ME!!

Ah! Chocolate tarts!!!

I got to school early today. I've never really been late but everyone else gets there at like 7AM and class doesn't start until 8:30. Bitch please, like I'm going to get there at 7:30 in the morning. Today i got there at 7:50...that's early enough.

I think I was just so excited to get to school because I knew that today was chocolate tart day! I was so happy. We made a Chocolate Bavarian tart and a Chocolate Ganache tart.

This is the Chocolate Ganache tart. I really wish I could have taken the other tart home too, but you can only take one!! BULL SHIT! It's a little blurry, just deal.

We made some shortbread cookies today with candied orange/lemon peel and crystallized ginger. We got to choose our own cookie cutters and I got a coyote and cowboy boots (with the spur of course). They aren't finished yet, we have to glaze them first.

ps this tart taste fucking amazing

Clafoutis sounds funny

Yesterday I had my servsafe exam, it went okay. I'm pretty positive I passed.

"oooouch charlie
char-lie that really hurt"

enough blab

On the same day we made that Fresh Fruit Tart we made Tarte Bourdaloue. It's a poached pear tart and underneath it is a thin layer of creme d'amandes (almond cream...fucking great)


and today we made a French nut tart and... Tarte Au Citron
LEMON TARTLETTES!!!

I need to stop taking pictures in this apartment.

I need a social life. All I do is come home after class, lay on my couch and wait for the weekend. Oh and on the weekends I do the same thing, but longer! I guess I also stuff my face with pastries all day! :)

Soon it will be my birthday.

I moved into my room. Up until earlier this week I've been living on a couch and out of my suitcase. I won't lie, it's been hell. I also have no way of spending money right now. I'm not broke but a;slkdf i just don't want to explain it. Maybe I should just eat all those tartlettes...yes? okay.

Besides waking up at 6AM...school is pretty cool we've made so many things! I need to get MY OWN camera so I can take pictures of all the things I don't bring home. We'll see, it depends when I'm able to spend money again.


I wish I had a Dr. Pepper

Pudge: noun. a short fat person

So heres my blog.

I decided to start one because this way I can tell everyone what I'm up to without having to contact people individually. I don't know who really wants to know what I'm doing in the big city but I'm bloggin' anyway.

So, heres one of the first tarts I made at school

Okay, so it's 1/4 of that tart that I made... it was just too good and I didn't get a chance to take a picture of it when it was whole.