Baking and Pastry: Week 2

Ok so the last week I haven't been updating because I have been deathly ill since Friday before last. Which means I didn't post what happened last Thursday either. Thursday we made 2 French baguettes, 1 bâtard bread, and 4 French dinner rolls. I didn't get any pictures though because of being sick.  All of this week  I was awake long enough to suffer through class and then I came home and passed right back out. Thankfully we didn't have any school on Monday because of President's Day, so it was a short 3 day week. Tuesday we made a bunch of different doughs that we baked off through the remainder of the week. On Wednesday we baked off our brioche dough and made three different things:  1 galette, 3 à têtes, and 2 nanterres. Sadly I didn't get pictures of any of it because of how sick I was, so I am just going to grab some pics off the net so you can at least see what it is I am talking about.

Galette: Only mine was plain and had a little hand made whip cream in the center

à tête

Nanterre

The other thing we made Wednesday was one of my husbands favorites, cinnamon rolls. This I did manage to get a pic of while I was in class because I knew once I wrapped it, it wouldn't look as good.

Then on Thursday we had a pretty short day. First we took a quick quiz that I am almost positive I got a 100% on, and then we baked off our croissant dough that we made three different things with: danish, croissants, and chocolate croissants.

Once we finished that up we made our sourdough bread that we actually started on the first day of class. I haven't tried it yet but it looks pretty good.

Once class ended I swung by the Aria and picked up my husband so we could go home and go to sleep. Sadly we didn't get much sleep though because I started having a VERY hard time breathing and after a heated debate (I didn't want to go) my amazing husband took me to the emergency room . I spent the remainder of the night there getting chest x-rays and breathing treatments. Around 5:30 Friday morning I was released and had the joy of trying to stay up long enough to get my prescriptions filled. Then Jon and I passed out until he had to go to work. When he got back home I passed back out since we had to be up early this morning to help his parents move.

Some other exciting news. I received my score on the certification exam I took a couple of weeks ago, and I passed with a 96%. Hopefully in a few weeks I will actually get my certificate so I can add it to my portfolio. Anyways, I think that brings us all up to speed, so goodnight everyone.