smelly appartment

The whole appartment smells of the onion tart we made today. Not too good. It tastes super, but the smell..Just got in at 10.30 pm. The pub/cafe was good... A few beers/nice people. And now an onion smell. Toilet time! down it goes....

The last class of today was all about bloody puff pastry. What a #$@!#%^ thing to make. Why not just buy it in the supermarket? Chef kept on asking about the amount of layers after so may folds of the pastry... I don't give a S@#%! It's just pastry and it tastes nice. I don't want to do any maths on it! It's food!
Then we did quiche Lorraine and a fantastic mushroom quiche. That was our classroom dinner before we went to the pub.
Chef was a bit 'static'. Nice guy, but not looking at us, just doing his standard 'thing'. Bit boring. But what he made was super. The puff pastry is not finished yet. We only did 4 turns on it - few more to go. Tomorrow (Friday) is a busy day with two practicals and a demo. First practical will be the quiche L. and puff pastry and the last practical of the day will probably puff stuff again.... not my kind of thing. But we need to do it...

By the way... pub was good !
See you all later.
Sj

Farty recipe/dish to take home...

Today, was onion tart day. Yes indeed, the extremely farty onion tart. And it tasted fabulous!

8.30am in the cafe. The guy with his beer is (already/still) there. I try to ignore him; before you know it he sees me as his drinking friend.... I have a quick coffee and go to class.

Today, chef is doing a lot in the demo.

It went like a bit like this: start with a (freshly made) tomato sauce. Should take 3 hrs. (in oven). Easy-peasy.

(blanch, peel, etc etc tomatoes, onions, bouquet de garni, a few other things and put in the oven)

In the meantime, chef made dough for pasta. After rising, he blanched it quickly, cooled it of and left it between damp tea towels for some time. All ready to use later. It was Canelloni with 3 different sauces (tomato, pesto and some sort of bechamel). Chef prepared everything at the same time.

On top of that he did an onion tart. He made fresh dough for the base, browned his onoions, blanched tomatoes, rinsed ansjovis, etc,etc. Busy man ! From the leftovers he made a spaghetti dish with the 3 sauces and from the 'canelloni-dough' he made some sort of funny looking pasta dish. The leftover dishes took him only 3 minutes to prepare and present.

In the end it all looked spectacular. 'Venezuela' (sorry, forgot your name!) went back for a tasting 3 times... he liked it indeed !

Out for a quick coffee at (our) cafe. 'Mr.X, the alkie' was gone, but he organised a replacement; An older lady was there and she downed a few pints within 10 minutes.

Our early afternoon practical was only to made the onion tart. It is a bit like a pizza with onions, olives, capers, tomato,anchovies and olive oil. Indeed, all the toppings that kids just love !

Everybody was really creative with the tarts. Round, square etc etc. Different ways of putting the toppings on. Nice. Again, it was too much to take home - but the dishwasher guys just love it. (One of them looks a bit 'round'. Looks like he never skips a meal durind and after cleaning pans and dishes.) Ready by two 'o clock.

I took home two big slices for tonight. Prrrrrrrrtttttttt..... smell,smell,smell....

Now, we've got the afternoon off and have to be back in class at 6.30. Don't like this bit of the schedule.