The End is Near

The past months have been extremely busy and fun with working at a new restaurant in town and filming a reality TV show. However my focus is now back to finishing year one. With fresh stitches and a weeks break ahead I am looking forward to going into my favorite NFLD Chef's classroom, Small Quantity Kitchen. Here we will be learning the art of baking. As many of you know one of the only things I can bake says Pillsbury on the package and I am anxious, yet determined to learn how to bake. I remember my pie crust tasting of salt and my Rice Crispy squares melting. Who knew you put them in the fridge and not the oven? It has been some years since those incidents and I have discovered tea biscuits, developing my own unique recipe. This is indeed baking so I feel there is hope.

The thing I have discovered about baking is (little rant here) it is a formula, a science, it is math. It needs to be precise to work, it need not to be over mixed. There is a process. Baking needs to have care and respect. As I do not have the brain for numbers and am not at all scientific I look upon this as a challenge. I have a care and respect for food, baking is food in a raw, pure state. I will respect the process, understanding ingredients have functions, they have effects on each other and there is a purpose for them. (end rant) This thought process shall see me through!

Hard to believe that I am coming up on my last month of formal classroom training in year one of this adventure. I will be entering into a 5 month co-op placement as my final block in the year and will return in October with "real" kitchen experience.
I am researching Oysters for my next blog and it is a pretty tasty task. More to come soon!