Saturday, May 29, 2010
A Tradition in the making...
He show's his silly colors mostly at Christmas. We make a zillion Cookies together every year, 9 years Tradition now. His favorite part is when I roll out the Gingerbread Dough. While I am busy cutting out the Ladies and Gents and cutting out shingles for our Gingerbread Village he is busy cutting out "unmentionables" out of my dough! Ugh I get so angry because then I must rummage through all of them while filling our cookie tins so NO ONE recieves a special suprise! It really is quite funny as we munch on our favorite cut outs and share them with friends! I guess the Falic Gingerbread People are a tradition as well :) Geez, I just wonder what is next?
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Friday, May 28, 2010
Photo Shoot #1
We are about to start our first of several Photo Shoots with the very talented Julian Kornicki! Yay! And even better; it's all about ME, Chef Meg and our cakes!
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Thursday, May 27, 2010
It's All In The Name...
With lots of experience under my belt, I have made my way "up the ranks" Starting with Cook, Lead, Pastry Cook 1, Pastry Cook 2, Pastry Cook 3, Pastry Chef, and now Executive Pastry Chef. There are even sub-titles that I have carried through out my career, Burger Flipper, Salad Maker, Bun Toaster, Prep, Fry 1, Broil 1, Saute 1, Expo, Kitchen Manager,...and probably a few more.
I also span a long line of nicknames. And these I will elaborate on: The very first nickname was Daddy's Little Helper(cute & no biggie), Bakery Girl(blah), Then came Cake Lady(hmmm...a little better maybe, or not?) Pastry Chic(I still like the sound of that one), back to Bakery Girlz(but now not Girl but Girlz) Bakery Bitches (yeah, I really like this one!) Pastry Bitches (movin on up) Cupcake Queen (cute) Cake Lady (again!) Pastry Queen/Pastry Queens (a little more respect now) And...
Now we have reached a higher level of NickNamedom! The next one given to us by our goodfellow Chef friend, Poney-Tail L. was Pastry Heroes! Oh how we love this one. Much more creative. I can not help but imagine us running around urgently with pastry bags full of icing in our chocolate stained hands. Our Apron strings flying behind us like we are burnin' rubber in our hot pink patent Dansko's!!! BUT- We have now climed yet one more rung to that Big Cupcake in the Sky.
One of our Great customers sent us a thank you letter telling us how wonderfully delish our cake was and thanking us for "making her party." The letter was addressed to None Other Than THE........DELECTABLE DIVAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
'Nuff said! I think we will be satisfied with this one for awhile.....
I also span a long line of nicknames. And these I will elaborate on: The very first nickname was Daddy's Little Helper(cute & no biggie), Bakery Girl(blah), Then came Cake Lady(hmmm...a little better maybe, or not?) Pastry Chic(I still like the sound of that one), back to Bakery Girlz(but now not Girl but Girlz) Bakery Bitches (yeah, I really like this one!) Pastry Bitches (movin on up) Cupcake Queen (cute) Cake Lady (again!) Pastry Queen/Pastry Queens (a little more respect now) And...
Now we have reached a higher level of NickNamedom! The next one given to us by our goodfellow Chef friend, Poney-Tail L. was Pastry Heroes! Oh how we love this one. Much more creative. I can not help but imagine us running around urgently with pastry bags full of icing in our chocolate stained hands. Our Apron strings flying behind us like we are burnin' rubber in our hot pink patent Dansko's!!! BUT- We have now climed yet one more rung to that Big Cupcake in the Sky.
One of our Great customers sent us a thank you letter telling us how wonderfully delish our cake was and thanking us for "making her party." The letter was addressed to None Other Than THE........DELECTABLE DIVAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
'Nuff said! I think we will be satisfied with this one for awhile.....
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Monday, May 24, 2010
Times have Changed
Well, It has been an extremely long time since I have updated my blog. The reason is probably my Pastry Chef OCD...hahah...We Pastry Chefs (generally) have extreme OCD! We like things in order ALL THE TIME! We like our tools, ingredients, pastries, completely organized. (Chef Meg and I like to say "Lined up like little soldiers" Otherwise, I know I personally, can not function and wind up walking around in circles all day. I frequently say, "Ugh, I can not work with my things unorganized"
Anyway- this leads into why I haven't "blogged" in forever...
I wanted to get a few "big stories" about things that are important to me "blogged" before this became my ongoing daily....food for thought.
Hasn't worked this far due to my business, so I have decided to go ahead and add those "stories" later!
I have overrun my facebook page with pics of my work, cool things I make, and quite frankly too much kitchen stuff...I frequently do not post things that I would like to because it may be considered (unrelevent info) that has nothing to do with reconnecting and chatting with old friends and having fun with current ones. -And I have longed to keep my Culinary thoughts and funny happenings (ORGANIZED hahah) in one place. I have simply been waiting to finnish my Big Important Stories on my blog before going forward with that; however, ........Times Have Changed!
Anyway- this leads into why I haven't "blogged" in forever...
I wanted to get a few "big stories" about things that are important to me "blogged" before this became my ongoing daily....food for thought.
Hasn't worked this far due to my business, so I have decided to go ahead and add those "stories" later!
I have overrun my facebook page with pics of my work, cool things I make, and quite frankly too much kitchen stuff...I frequently do not post things that I would like to because it may be considered (unrelevent info) that has nothing to do with reconnecting and chatting with old friends and having fun with current ones. -And I have longed to keep my Culinary thoughts and funny happenings (ORGANIZED hahah) in one place. I have simply been waiting to finnish my Big Important Stories on my blog before going forward with that; however, ........Times Have Changed!
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