These photos are from Thursday when we had the hardest pastry day every. I didn't finish everything we needed to do...I got my swans done and I glazed and filled everything, but I didn't have a chance to assemble my religieuse (big cream puff under smaller cream puff and stuck together and then some buttercream piped on them....). But here are the swans and the eclairs and the round things are the unfinished business. The light brown are coffee, the dark are (obviously) chocolate.
Today we did a lamb stew in cuisine. The hardest dish so far and I think it went well. I got everything done but forgot to put butter on my green beans and caught shit for that. I can confess that it wasn't a timing issue for me. If I had finished half an hour before I still wouldn't have put the butter on. I just plain forgot that step. But I was proud of myself and how fast and hard I worked and I think I can keep that pace and keep it up for the rest of the session. I also felt less tired today than other days because I was focused. Being all willy-nilly actually makes me tired. What I learned today was not to overthink things. The thinking makes you tired. You have to be robotic about it and just go go go. I will take a picture of my leftover lamb strew (it won't be appetizing in the tupperware) and you all can see it. It was pretty basic ingredients, but complicated cooking process and cutting techniques.
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