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I'm MELTING! in Life as I know it...
Today was a blistering 36°C. My dogs were lying on the cold tiles and I really thought they were on to something here, so I have joined them on the floor in my underwear. Luckily it's around 19:1...
Olive, Mature Cheddar, Parmesan, Rosa Tomato, Garlic and Caramelized Red Onion Focaccia.
Spiced Applesauce Cakes with Coconut and Pecan nut filling and Apple Crisps
Chocolate and Hazelnut Gâteau with Hazelnut Paste Cream and Italian Coffee Meringue Buttercream (EEEEEEAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRLLLLLYYYYYYYYYY Days)
New York Cheesecake in My Passion
NY Cheesecake
Dark Chocolate Mousse Genoise Gâteau with Crème Diplomat and Berries (Early Days) :
Large Mille-Feuille with Creme Chiboust (Early Days) in My Passion
Large Mille-Feuille with Creme Chiboust (Early Days)
An Old ATTEMPT at Cake Decorating with fondant (shite) in My Passion
Blegh
3 Braid Kitkas (Challa) in My Passion
3 Braid Kitkas (Challa) :
Danish Pastries in My Passion
Cinnamon Snail Pastries : Various Danishes with Orange and Ginger Marmalade Filling : Pain Au Chocolat :
Dark Chocolate Tart with Caramelized Almonds and Almond Sweet Pastry (Trying out plain instead of fluted)
Different Croissants in My Passion
Croissants made using a normal Viennoiserie Laminate Dough (more bready) : Croissants made using a Traditional French Croissant Recipe (Flakier and Lighter) :
Hazelnut Macarons + Chocolate Macarons in My Passion
Hazelnut Chocolate (earlier days)
Gâteau Saint-Honoré with Creme Chiboust in My Passion
Gâteau Saint-Honoré with Creme Chiboust I made in the earlier days of my career. It would look much better nowadays :)
Milk Tarts in My Passion
Milk Tarts
Cinnamon and Strawberry Frangipane Tarts in My Passion
Cinnamon and Strawberry Frangipane Tarts
Religieuses Au Cafe in My Passion
Religieuses Au Cafe
Lemon Cream Tart with Meringue Teardrops and Almond Sweet Pastry in My Passion
Lemon Cream Tart with Meringue Teardrops and Almond Sweet Pastry
Japonaise Cake in My Passion
Japonaise Cake : Layers of Almond Meringue sandwiched and covered with Coffee Buttercream, Toasted Flaked Almonds and Strawberries.
Living life in the current state of "limbo" I am in sucks. Some days aren't bad, I do my training, play with the dogs, maybe take them for a long walk, watch some wrestling, play a game, test and...
Last night when I got home from the vegan/detoxing/cleansing presentation, the friend I went with, Brittany, sent me a text saying how much better I looked compared to the last time we saw one an...
A fish out of water... Pretty much on the sand... in Life as I know it...
So I just came back from a 2 hour talk focused around detoxing and cleansing with a tad of vegan propaganda mixed in. Now let me make this clear, I have a very strong dislike for people who talk ...
The times they are a-changin' in Life as I know it...
As some of you might know, my girlfriend and I broke up recently due to her going to further her studies at the University of Pretoria, which is about a 3 hour flight away from Cape Town. It was ...
"Happy little trees" in Life as I know it...
With all the stress and difficulty that my social and general anxiety brings me, I have always found comfort and relief from the crippling anxiety in the strangest of ways... One of the first wa...
As I'm sure any Cape Townian knows, our manual labourers are full of KAK (Afrikaans for shit). The new Bistro I've been hired to be the pastry chef/baker of has had it's opening date postponed on...
