Croissant Dough and all its glory!

Practice making various shapes to be filled, with some weaving, crescents, and circular wells.












From left to right, ham&cheese croissants (column of 3 to the far left), pan au chocolate (chocolate croissants, 6 after the initial 3), and regular croissants.










Parmesan/Asiago cheese twists! I love these things!












Close-up. (Stupid family ate them =^( )

















Palmiers or elephant ears for us stateside. Lovely little flaky cookies with caramelized sugar.











Close-up. Look at that flaky goodness!

First Day of Breads!

Brioche (from blitz puff pastry)













Brioche loaf (several brioche placed together in a loaf pan)












Some more brioche and our baguettes, can you tell which one I made? If you guessed the one on the left your right, the other was made by my partner, Franz.















Sun-dried tomato and parmesan focaccia with baked parmesan and herbs.

Valentines Day

Just because I'm single doesn't mean I can't get some enjoyment from this day.

Dark chocolate orange cake with a candied orange heart.

Offals Galore

Pan seared sweetbread with a poached egg and sauce Choron.

















Browned Calfs Liver with apple relish and tomato slices.

















Note: There was also foie gras but it didn't last long enough to be photographed.

For Doan! >=^D

Rabbit heart (heart shape made from legs) and fresh fettuccine with a mustard sauce and fresh chips.

Cake Test and Lamb

Chocolate Molasses cake with salted caramel butter cream. (One I experimented with)














Lamb roll (Loin wrapped around Lamb sausage and tenderloin), Lamb chops, pan-seared polenta cakes, and Ratatouille.

Everything but the bun.

Fresh ground Spicy Italian Sausage with red wine mustard, pickled radish, and a Cherry/Starfruit/Mango chutney. Everything but the bun was made in class that day.
















Smoked pork cheek bacon with Asian pear, cherry, and grape slivers and a miso sauce.

Chops.

Self-butchered pork chop with pommes puree and pan sauce.

Veal Day

Braised veal in a veloute with mushrooms and pearl onions over rice pilaf.
















Veal Schnitzel with sides of egg (white and yoke), parsley, capers, lemon, and anchovy.

STEAK!!!!!!!!!

This is what we started with (and an extra I got to take home X^D)
















This is the finished product. A medium rare steak with dauphinoise, stuffed tomato, and an arugula salad. Its topped with a red wine compound butter and a sprig of thyme.

Flat fish and shell fish

Baked Sole over potatoes. It was SOOOO much fun butchering a whole fish (<-sarcasm, it smelled so bad when I removed the guts to make stock).

















Pan seared scallops. Simple, easy, delicious.

Duckapallooza

Duck Leg poterie with a nice gravy. It was nice and tender like a confit, nice and crispy skin. Only pity was that I couldn't thicken the sauce more.

















Seared duck breast, medium rare. (*drools*) I scarfed this down in all of 10 seconds...well maybe 20.

















Duck liver pate on fresh bread from the baking class. Yup, still don't really care for pate but its a lot of fun teasing Janice with it. >=^D