Hey Everyone!!


So obviously i have lacked on updating you on my baking life lately! Working at the same job i came back to Saskatchewan for, and havent really done any testing at home.

Recently i was introduced to Soul Pancake by a friend and ever since the beginning of her challenge i had always wanted to do it myself but never had the chance to go get the book. Then another friend got me the book for my birthday/christmas so i guess its my turn to do this! Here is the link to the friend who introduced me to  it! http://krsalmers.tumblr.com/post/27383889279/fuck-this-i-want-a-challenge

The rules she set up for hereself were:
1) Answer a new SoulPancake question 7 days a week.
2) One of those answers must be a video, which will always be filmed on Tuesdays. (i will say one has to be a video but not that it has to be a tuesday!)
3) One of those answers must be me asking someone else in a video.(this seems interesting.. who will i get to be in a video? i think ill keep this one also!)



 And staying close to her SoulPancakeChallenge i also used the random number thing to see how long i will be doing it so Starting today January 3 2012 and ending January 30 2012


So my first question! i decided to pick the date of my birthday so pg 19 in the book says

Tell me now!
List five questions you hate not having the asnwers to. 
1. When someone says hey i have something i want to talk/ask you about and then leaves you hanging. Bugs the hell out of me!!
2. The whole time travelling thing confuses my head. If the future gives the present an object that they grow up with and it has importance in their life and then they grow up and then time travel back and give it to themself how does that object exist?
3. Why do i put up walls?
4. Why cant i get my excema to heal and go away?
5.  Why cant i seem to learn from mistakes the first time i make them?

Well first day done! Talk to you guys tomorrow!!
<3 Amz

Hey Everyone!!  So i havent put up a post in so long!!

So first off im sorry! but now i will catch you up :D

I moved back to Saskatchewan when i finished school, and currently working at Smiley's Buffet and Catering. 
So my typical week there involves making 800 cookies, chocolate chip and ginger molasses. about 100 pie shells, and 8-16 double crust pies. 8 large trays of squares, 16 pans of  desserts (so trifles, cheesecakes,  broken glass) and then 40 creme pies.  Although every morning is a set menu for a residence so you have to make 140 regular, 30 diabetic and 4 Celiac Desserts. And then any cater outs or pick ups that are booked for that day, which are generally strawberry shortcake, or black forest cake.  So thats my typical work week. 

Its interesting learning how life is different than school, and just the interactions made within employees vs fellow classmates.

I cant believe i have been graduated for 3 months, it does not feel like that long. Hope all the PICA Grads of June 2012 all the best!

<3 Amz

Bittersweet

Well the end is here.
i cant believe how fast the last 6 months have went by.

Finished my final practical today, and wow im i ever glad that is over!

we had 5 1/2 hours to do Brioche, Mango mousse cake,eclairs filled with coffee pastry cream and caramel on top,  Creme Anglaise, two chocolate genoise, one turned into a sacher, hazelnut tuilles, truffles, plate writing and fans. My body feels like a steam roller ran over it! i finished half an hour early and then did all my clean up! I think i did pretty well. there was some stuff that i have done better but being rushed i feel happy with what i produced :)

I also got my class valedictorian :) so i made a little video this past week and will do a little speech at the grad ceremony (i will post the video after grad! so that its a surprise for everyone in my class :P)


I guess the next post will be about life! and all the adventures it takes me one :)

till then
<3 Amz

Last Event

Hey all my followers! There is a special event going on at my school this saturday! Last time you will be able to come visit me at school!  i will be serving but my classmates are making the food! You should defitinetly come check it out! 

 https://dinnerinoldmontreal.eventbrite.ca/?nomo=1

<3 Amz

Oh my word! its been like a month since i have updated! Sorry guys!

Well i will try to do a quick update ! Life and school has went by so fast! And i only have 3 days left till the final!

So this was a creamsicle Charlotte, So there is ladyfingers around the outside,white chocolate mousse, a orange curd floater, Garnished with white chocolate cigarette, candied orange slices, and orange granita

This was a Bombe Alaska, So i it was vanilla bean ice cream covered with  pistachio ice cream then covered in Italian Meringue on a almond pound pound cake, toasted and then candied Pistachios garnished around as well as a Cigerette butterfly

My last plated dessert was my version of a snow egg, i found the idea from a restaurant in australia, and loved it, so i tried to recreate it but not excatly.

 It was a baked italian meringue dome, filled with chocolate mousse, a caramel center and a coconut tuille base garnished with a sparkling strawberry wine granita

In this picture you can see how gooey the surprise center was :)

One day i also made a tonne of truffles for Chef Tim, There was dark chocolate orange, milk chocolate strawberry, and white chocolate peach

A few students in my class also got to play around with sugar sculpting, So we all got a demo on it :)

Although when we came back the next day it had broke but the finished product still looked awesome!













Well thats all for now as i should prob study for the final thats in 3 days! Eeek!!

<3 Amz

Life. Thoughts.

 Last weekend my sister and her husbands famlily were out here visiting, and they had mentioned that i have taken on the hippy mentality. That comment got me pondering about how much my thinking has changed. 
-I no longer just eat whatever (although a few of classmates will disagree with this! )
-I cant see a dessert or any kind of treat without thinking about what techniques they used
-I can justify spending more money on better quality food or tools 
-I actually drank a glass of wine and enjoyed it
Sure these are little things, but isnt it the little things that make the big picture. 
I am changing. I am growing. I am maturing. 

 Being here has been a fairy tale for me in a way. I had always wanted to go to pastry school. Also dreamt and talked about moving to vancouver. So having both of those come true was so awesome. 

 Im also learning about life in general. Dealing with people you like and dont like. How to be the person i want to be. 

Everyone has their days, But im hoping that i can learn to stay postive, and dont stress over those things that you cant control. 

Life is life. C'est La Vie.

 

And in the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths. Be thankful for the difficult times. During those times you 
grow. We have to deal with pain to find happiness. We have to deal with pain to find us. We become stronger with each bad day, bad relationship, bad past, just everything bad. We can make it all better in the end just by learning from it all. Challenges are what makes us who we are
 

<3 Amz