I'm not dead!

Well hello my friends!

 I'm back! I'm not dead, my fingers didn't get chopped off in class. Things just so so so busy. I think the last time I wrote we were about to go to the casino for the decadence event. (holy cripes I'm behind..) 

 The decadence event was a blast. You get to get all prettied up (normally make up and a kitchen don't go so well together. At least not for me. I end up looking like Alice Cooper.)

All prettied up! 

Then when we arrived we went down the HUGE - and when I say huge I mean...MASSIVE. The pastry section was quite small compared to the cooks section. It will still fun to be in a commercial kitchen, especially the casino. Chef had our names where we would be working. We tried to get settled and get organized but it was difficult. Working in a different kitchen is like walking in to a strangers home and hearing "go find me my pearls.." - no idea where anything is. 

  The most tense part was dealing with Jean-Luc. He was a tad stressed and winded from running up and down the different floors making sure were were on track. People didn't know what was happening and were getting confused. I looked at him and said "We are confused, but to scared to re ask what we need do...you seem...stressed." haha. He got us back on track. 

 The cooks were on first. We were each paired with a wine (pastry was also paired with a chocolate to go with that wine). We had Northern compass iced apple wine from the valley. Absolutely delicious. I'm a HUGE fan of ice wine. So when the cooks were done presenting their food, they cleared out and we were brought in. 

 Our dessert was sooooo cute! I absolutely loved it. It looked like a mini apple. It was a sable breton (cakey short bread) with a white chocolate bavarian cream with apple compote, covered in a sour apple glaze. Tasted really really good as well. People said they loved them. *So proud*

#2 was our chocolate. It was an organic white chocolate called "just us" and its more brown in colour because they use brown sugar in it. Really tasty. 

Kitchen work with Chef on the run..

 I turned in to the runner for our table. We ran out so quickly! I ran (and by ran I mean had to take the clunky scary service elevator) Then set them up on our slab, finish them all off with the chocolate and sugar pieces then run them back up and across the floor. They had cameras there, I dodged those. lol. Chef showed us the news feed for the event and It was just a me blur screaming past the camera..no thanks. 

  While I was down in the kitchen prepping our dessert Chef comes down and starts jokingly screaming "FASTER! LETS GO! LETS GO!" - my hands are shaking, my face is red so I start screaming back "SHUT UP! SHUT UP! I'M GOING!" ... This is not my kind of baking I want to do. Hotel work for placement? no. 

 All in all it was a fun night, people drank and laughed. It was a good experience for me. I really enjoyed myself. 

 Since the event we have had lots of school. Made lots of yummy treats. I am sick right now. I have a cold that just won't let go. I missed two days of my bread rotation last week..poopies. Davin just called and said he was going to bring me carrot and dill soup from Petes! mmm. That should help me feel better. 

 There is so much going on here right now, So I hope I can keep this thing going again! I miss writing and telling you all about my day and showing off all my goodies I can make :) 

My valentines cake. 

Some raspberry goodness.

 We are in to our 4th and final round of rotations. We have events and projects coming up! Looking forward to finishing this year with a bang!

 Stay tuned for more exciting news!

OH! I'm not done yet apparently...

 Flipping through my pictures I forgot to tell you about the dinner my brother put on before he and his girlfriend left for London.

 It was so damn good. The end. ;) - Seriously though, I'm very impressed with what Matthew can do with food. He's quite a little talent. I made some dessert, a chocolate cake, and a lemon european cheesecake. I was disappointed with the chocolate cake. Didn't turn out how I had wanted - but live and learn.

My brother and I in our whites, ready for the evening. 

My chocolate cake 

...Alright. Now I think I'm done.

Ashleyxoxox