Chilling with Chocolates!

Off from school and from work. I had been up 3 hours ago and since the weather had been really fine, I was on my laptop browsing about the news and updates about the upcoming iPhone 5. Ha! Yea, the past few days I have been reading blogs and reviews since I wanted to get a new phone - either the iPhone or the Thunderbolt. The other day Nat also told me to check out Techcrunch.com so I decided to look through their site today. As soon as I started reading the first few posts from the site, I suddenly thought of the chocolates that I brought home from class last Tuesday. So I took it from the fridge, ate some of it and went on web surfing. Each piece of bon bon and the filling inside was as good as every post I've read from Techcrunch. Lol

Chocolates!!

The advanced classes for the baking and pastry program focused more on the advanced courses for European cakes, chocolates, bread production and pâtisserie. For this quarter I took the chocolates and European cakes course.  It was really exciting to be in my chocolates class that I forgot to take a lot of pictures. I mean come on now, if eating chocolates is almost everyone's favorite, then making them especially bon bons are the most fun! We watched videos of demos of chefs from the CIA then after that we had a lecture about how to properly temper chocolates. The next day was for us to work on our own. Groups were given recipes and each member basically had to do one or more recipes. 
So yeah, here were some of the snapshots that I took. One thing I have always remembered since that day, "Make it, don't wear it!". I had to admit, if I didn't wear my full apron on, my chef coat would be covered with dark, milk and white chocolates all over! Well, it was my first week anyway!

demo. first day.

making dark bon bons. i filled it with layers of tangerine- white chocolate and dark chocolate.

My Charlotte Cake

March 26, 2010 For my first post, I would like to share with you this cake that I made in school for my final practical exam in my baking and pastry course. It was filled and layered with bavarian cream, strawberries and blueberries. I topped it with strawberry gelee and garnished it with blackberries, strawberries and blueberries. I was so proud it came out this beautiful. I got an A. :)

charlotte cake

Australian Open week

January 30, 2011 My siblings and I had been watching  the Australian Open 2011 since it started. Most of the games would not start until late at night often at midnight and since I did not have much stuffs to do with school, I spent most of my time watching the Men's and Women's Singles. The games lasted almost 3 to 4 hours long so I usually made food for us to snack on. I made meat lasagna and garlic bread sticks during Novak Djokovic's and Andy Murray's game as they fought for their grand slam. That was a really fun night!

Click to watch Djokovic's win against Murray http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=6073658

meat lasagna and garlic breadsticks