Road Trip
So, somehow one must get from point A to point B. Best plan of attack when attempting to haul large quantities of personal belongings? Road Trip!My girl Alison volunteered to drive to California with...
View ArticleLanded!
My first real introduction to the Bay Area was just after getting off of the freeway in Oakland, trying to find my friend's house. Due to some percent operator error, I had clearly garbled the...
View ArticleDon't drop a deuce in the barrio
Ahh, my first week in the Bay Area has been an interesting one to say the least. Seeing a man giving his boo the beat down on the street corner, searching for an apartment, acquainting myself with the...
View ArticleWhere the f*** is my wallet?!
Being uprooted and trying to find a new routine out here has really got my mind in 50 places at once. I didn't realize just how scattered I've been until I started to repeatedly lose things. Not just...
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This morning from 2:13 onwards, I woke up every single hour, paranoid that I had slept through my alarm. I've had past experiences of almost missing a 6AM Saturday flight home because I had set my...
View ArticlePardon me if my dough is a bit gassy
Tomorrow, the first week of school will come to a close and this weekend, I will catch up on some much needed rest. I've had some incredibly long days, waking up at 5:45 AM and busy as a bee till...
View ArticleI think I have baguette envy
I'll admit it. In the past, I always thought that size mattered. When confronted with the baskets full of baguettes at the grocery store, I would usually choose the large, soft and fluffy loaf that at...
View ArticleWhole grains and food porn
Contrary to popular belief, I have not fallen off the edge of a giant dough mixer, into the behemoth bowl and suffocated in it's glutinous web. I am in fact alive and well, albeit incredibly busy with...
View ArticleA lot of bread and little time
Yowza! This past Friday marked exactly 4 weeks of gettin' schooled in the art of bread baking. I am absolutely amazed at how much information I have absorbed and processed in what amounts to...
View ArticleOMG, looks like heaven!!! (if heaven were bread)
After sending out some pics of some fruits of my labors, I quickly received a reply from my friend Judy, a fellow bread lover "OMG, looks like heaven!!! (if heaven were bread)" Ladies and Gentlemen, I...
View ArticleI'm in love with a girl
Just on the other side of the Treasure Island Music Festival, I am still basking in the afterglow. It was a 2 day festival which effectively sucked the majority of the hipster population from San...
View ArticleA rainbow of breads
We've got 2 weeks left of breads before we move onto Viennoisserie, also known as laminated dough (ie: Croissants, Danishes, etc...) for 4 full weeks. Before departing our fantastic instructor Frank,...
View ArticleBakers or Mad Scientists?
The current breads section of the professional Baking and Pastry program is coming to a close at the end of next week. If you've been keeping up (and shame on you if you fess up to the contrary), you...
View ArticleGoodbye Breads, Hello Brioche!
This past Friday was bittersweet. It marked the end of our 8 week long journey through the artisan breads world as well as 8 weeks working and learning in close proximity with each other. As much as...
View ArticleSo much butter, it would make Paula Deen blush
This week has been our first venture into enriched doughs. Throughout most of the breads section, we had been working with lean doughs, or doughs with no fats or sugars added. The mixes we've been...
View ArticleCroissants, croissants, and more croissants,
This past week has been nice and lazy and full of super fattening food and drink. What better time to post more pics of food! In keeping with my theme of laziness and procrastination, I'll keep the...
View ArticleBuilding blocks
By the time I swing back into Salt Lake City for the Christmas holiday, I'll have completed half of my bread and pastry training. The first 2 months were breads. So many breads, I never realized the...
View ArticleXXX rated sticky buns
The past 5 days have been a week long practical on viennoiserie. It has been a crazy combination of new challenges, creativity and stress which culminated in the past 2 days of baking like mad men....
View ArticleIt's 2010 already?!
Damn. Story of my life these days. I have entered an alternate universe in which time has no real meaning. The days blend together so quickly and on the same toss of the coin, 2 days can seem like 2...
View ArticlePass the Alka-Seltzer?
With computer back in action and 2 weeks worth of pastry photos uploaded, it's time for show and tell! The weeks before and after the holiday break, we worked on pies, tarts and pate a choux. Clearly,...
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