New Years Birthday!

Hey guys! Happy 2011!! We spent New Years eating homemade pizza, veggie trays, and candy, candy, cookies, oh and did I mention candy? x0 We also spent time playing board games and then rock band till about two in the morning! Fun, fun!

The next day, on the 1st, I went to friend Amber's Birthday party! We had a lot of fun ringing in her birthday!


Her birthday cake!


Her cake after we got through with it! : )


The ice cream was so hard me had to microwave it!


Yummm ice cream! : P


Oooh syrup! : )


Candy canes!!

I had a lot of fun on break, but now I am back at college ready for my 2nd semester in Culinary school! I am taking 4 culinary classes this year! Culinary 2, Menu planning, Nutrition, and Food+ Beverage service! I can't wait to start!! I will try to keep you guys updated as much as possible with my hectic life! Oh yeah and there is always Cold Stone to look forward to too!!

Love you all!!

Lizzie! ^_^

Cooking and Baking class! : )

Here's a recap on my cooking class on Wednesday and my baking class on Thursday! ^_^

So on cooking class this week we did a section on chickens! We all had to make sauce, and then partway cook our chicken over the broiler and then finish it in the oven! The chef really liked mine, he said I had a good balance of colors. : )



We also made side salads with our own salad dressings. Mine was made with apple cider vinegar and olive oil!

My friend K is so cute! : )


The chef really liked her chicken plate too! *hive five!* We're getting better! : )

Then Thursday, in baking class, we made each made pastry cream, and then different cream pies, rice puddings, or creme brulees.


Vanilla, chocolate, and chocolate strawberry creme brulees!


Banana Cream pie! Yummy, so good! : )


My pumpkin pie!

I made three extra pies, and my chef liked them so much she gave them away as bribes. ; )

I will post some recipes soon!

Night!

Love,

Lizzie!

Lunch with a friend!

So the past three days, I have gone out to eat lunch at three different places, but with the same friend!

On Sunday, we went to Gulliver's Book Store, which is this amazing bookstore with a cafe upstairs. We both got pesto turkey wraps, and cinnamon spice lattes which are like Starbucks Pumpkin spice lattes, but ten times better!

On Monday, we went to a little coffee shop near my culinary school where we split a garlic pizza with artichokes and tomatoes, and she got a white chocolate mocha, and I got an iced vanilla latte. Then for dessert, she had an amazing piece of tirimisu she let me have a few bits of, and I had yummy creme brulee!



Finally, today for lunch we went to Sourdough Sam's Cafe! She had an omelet, hash browns, and biscuits with gravy, and I had a blueberry creme with a side of hash browns!


(Nom! Yay for whipped cream! ^_^ )

Then, for dessert we both had warm pecan pie with vanilla ice cream!

I was so happy to spend three days of a row with this amazing friend and am going to miss her so much!!

xoxo,

Lizzie!

Gingersnap Cookies!

Woo gingersnaps! In Pastry Tube Art today we broke into groups and each made a recipe. Two groups made butter cookies, one made lemon drops, and my partner and I made gingersnaps!





Yay so pretty! : )

Oooh and I got my whole chef uniform in! We got two jackets, three pairs of pants, two aprons, and two floppy hats!



FLOPPY HAT! : P

Haha so overall it was a fun pastry tube art class!

So to end this random gingersnap post... here's me in a floppy hat eating a gingersnap, yay! : P

Eggs, eggs, oh and did I mention eggs? : )

Hey everyone! Woo it's been a busy, busy, busy ten days since I last posted!

First, I moved out of my old dorm room, and into a new one with a Subway in it AND an ICE CREAM VENDING MACHINE! Hecccck yeah. ; )

Then, I got a job at COLDSTONE'S! Yay! I'm surrounded by lovely ice cream a few days a week now, it's great! I have gone in a few days and I just LOVE it so far! It is fun making all those creations, and shakes/smoothies! I also love making the ice cream cakes! I don't even mind doing the dishes since I do them so much in my Culinary classes, it's like psh easy! : P

On Tuesday my morning classes were canceled but I went in anyway to help make about 230 sandwiches for an event that was going on later that day! I never want to see turkey or American cheese ever again! Haha! On Tuesday night I had another Pastry Tube art class where we pipped butter using a star tip to be used for a function that is coming up! We also learned how to make carnations, I have to sing "down up twist, down up twist!" to make them, haha no one seemed to mind though! x0

Eggs! Ahh! Haha I actually took pictures of Wednesday! We had to make eggs six different ways and show our chef! Here's my finished tray!


Haha that darn poached egg took me about five tries! I burned it the first time, and then I kept breaking the yolk when I flipped it, but I finally did it! : )


Here's my omelet in the process of being made!

After we 'mastered' the art of egg making, we moved onto breakfast foods! My group made pancakes! Plain, blueberry, chocolate, and chocolate blueberry! Yummy!


Our batter!

We had a feast of pancakes, waffles, quiche, and french toast! Oh, and of course EGGS! x0

Now today (Thursday) was my baking class! We made cookies, yum! My group made peanut butter and twiles! Other groups made two different chocolate chips, shortbreads, sugar cookies, lady fingers, macaroons, and more! I had so many cookies today, but they were all so good!

So tired now! I worked at Coldstone's and came home to do homework and am now finally done! Going to go internet around before heading to bed! See you all in Dreamland!!

Love,

Lizzie!

PS aren't I cute in a hair net? x0

Culinary School

Hey everyone, wow it's almost been a month since I last posted, but I've been so busy!

I've been at college for a week now, and I'm loving it so far! I am taking Introduction to the Culinary Arts, Sanitation, Pastry Tube Art, Cooking 1, and Baking 1! I had my first class this past Thursday, which was Baking 1. It was so amazing! I met all my fellow classmates, and my amazing teacher. She seems like a great person, and a great chef! We then toured the bakery, and learned that bakers always need to weigh ingredients instead of just measuring certain amounts to be spot on when making things in bulk. We also broke into groups and made cookies, and the chef really like our groups! I have been doing homework and battling a cold these past few days, but I'm so excited for Tuesday to start some of my other classes!

I can't wait to take pictures and learn even more!

Love you all,

Lizzie! ^_^