Day Seventeen

Ready Ok. So the day started by making pastry cream, something I have made before, then we made almond cream with the pastry cream, done that before too. Then we cut up some apples and cooked them in butter and vanilla sugar, also done before but is still the best smell in the world. But then we took half our apples and used a food processor and turned them into apple sauce. Mixing the apple sauce together with the cubed apples gave us a filling for apple turn over’s. Apple Turn Over’s, the best, but wait we ain’t there yet.

First chef showed us how to take our inverted puff pastry dough and make a kings cake, which is a circle of dough with a spiral of almond cream piped on it. Then another slightly larger circle is placed on top and the sides are sealed. A small cookie cutter is used to cut off parts of the sides so it kind of looks like a sun and a fancy design is scored onto the top before egg washed is washed over it. This cake is pimp because it cooks straight up. We only saw chefs cooked but I will take pictures next week for you to see.

Then a small circle cutter is used to cut out dough for the apple turn over’s. They are filled and sealed, and egg washed, then cooked. We tried some when they came out of the oven, super good.

Then we took a 5 inch strip of puff pastry dough and lined each of the long sides with a 1 inch strip of dough. In the space between we placed some almond cream as a moister barrier and then spread the remainder of our apple mix on. Then we cored, peeled and cut in half some apples, which were then quickly thinly sliced and put in rows on top of the apple mix. We did not cook these but chef called them something like a strip tart. Will be interesting to see how the come out.

Next we piped some whipped cream onto our cheesecakes from the other night and put some fruit on top. These were plated for dinner. Dinner was wonderful, I will spare you the details, just enjoy this picture of grilled cheese sandwiches, which I ate with gazpacho.

Grilled cheese sandwiches filled with Provolone and Mozzarella sitting next to fresh made potato chips.

Now it’s time for me to make up for slacking in other parts of this blog, namely introducing my lab partners. First is Jennifer. Jennifer is the best at knowing all the movie quotes and any song I am whistling. She always knows what I’m talking about when I explain something vague and say, “You know what I’m talking about?” She was my lab partner last week.

Jennifer

This week it was Moe. Contrary to her name Moe is a girl, or more to fact a lady, or a woman. I would probably say broad, or chick, but how ever you classify her she is pretty awesome. She is always helping me with my ingredients and she takes way better notes then me. Moe was a great partner with a great sense of humor. Can’t wait to see who it will be next week.

Moe