Well I packed up all my things and trekked off to class only to be greeted when I got there by this one guy who is in the evening Culinary class. He is from NC and seems very nice, really he does, but he just thinks he is funny and really he comes across more annoying to me. Our student lounge is just outside of where his classroom is and they tend to go on break when we do (whether on purpose or not I am not sure since they are a smaller class), and everytime he comes out there, he makes some comment about the guys in our pastry group - there are only two - being "lucky to be surrounded by all these pretty girls in the pastry class" or saying that he should change to the baking class to "be near all these pretty girls", and really, yes in a way it is flattering to all of us, but this the second day of 2-3 breaks each day that i have to listen to it. Today I had to leave and go use the bathroom in hopes that when I came back he'd be back in his classroom (he wasn't) because I just couldn't take it. If he feels that way, then change class and get it over with - but please don't really because then I'd have to listen to it e v e r y day, aaagh! :)
We lost our first classmate today. An older woman from CA I guess decided to drop out for some reason. She seemed really excited about it, but that drops our count to 15 students in the class now. One girl commented "What?!? But she took the best notes in the class, I was going to ask to borrow hers if I got sick!" which was true, because I think I take quite a bit of notes, but she REALLY did! So now we wait to see how many of us will be left tomorrow or next week.
So today we got a little more into the groove of things, though I think by next Monday we'll be much more actually into the regular routine for sure since Chef Hall said that by next week we'd actually be making the bread for the restaurant. That means we'll probably be starting to prep and plate desserts as well. We learned to fold napkins for the bread baskets and little ramekin dishes though, so that is the start of prep stuff. But that was just something to learn while our bread was baking. And it was sooooo yummy! We had formed dough and let it ferment and proof overnight, so we took those out to finish proofing in the warm air today. We also mixed up the biscuit dough, corn muffin mix, and baguette dough. The kitchen smelled so yummy because besides our breads Chef Hammer made us dinner again and we had some yummy chili and got to taste test our medley of breads with it - we had biscuits, corn muffins, baguettes, butter braid bread (a white bread), whole wheat dinner rolls, sourdough bread, and yummy herb and cheese twisted breadsticks (these were the BEST!). So yet again, I had dinner at school and tomorrow we are making pizza! We broke into our groups and this time I was with Hannah, Natalie, and Michelle and we will now officially be group 3. I guess we stay with the same 4 members for the term and then next term we'll change groups to work with everyone in the class. Today we were the bread group, but each day we'll be a different group (eg. bread, prep, service, or specialty). We were scaling things out for 2 batches of pizza dough, a chocolate sauce, and a carmel sauce. I also got to "feed" the sourdough. That pretty much means I take the sourdough starter and split it off into a smaller batch, add some water and flour and mix again. We are supposed to feed it every day whether we use it or not because we do usually use it and if we don't feed it every day it will eventually die (and therefore not make sourdough bread and such). We also had our usual lecture and the demo today was the biscuits and corn muffins. Showing us the ovens and different folding, rolling, mixing techniques. That was pretty much my day. And now it is late and I am off to bed so I can make it up in the morning to go to the gym. Nite!
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