don't mess with me

place: naia 3, departure area
time: approximately 8 a.m.
scenario: after placing my handcarry items (consisting of a small bodybag & a small paperbag containing 1 bottle crispy pili nuts for the aunt of my friend) through the xray machine

xray machine officer: anong laman nito? (while prying open the small paperbag)
me: pili nuts. bakit bawal???
x.m.o: ay...di naman po ma'am.

end of discussion.

i can be a bitch sometimes. i fight when i know i'm right.

day three

pandesal...plain, chicken adobo & corned beef




soft rolls


panini


coffee & pandan buns



ciabatta

french bread

challah bread

i'm coming home, back to the place where i belong...

i've waited for this for sooooo long...

i don't even remember exactly how long. hmmm...more than two years, that i'm sure.

i can't describe how i exactly feel. excited? scared/nervous? happy? i guess it's a mixture of all these feelings.

reality is not yet even sinking in. it feels too good to be true, like one of those damn good dreams that makes me wish it's not yet time to get up.

please don't wake me up...

(I guess the dominant feeling I'm having right now is that I'm scared. Scared that either I will not like it as much anymore so that I would not want to go back or that I will be reminded of why I love it so much that I would not want to leave anymore.)

day two

roasted vegetables & pesto focaccia

plain & chocolate croissants

potato bread

ensaymada

carrot & herb bread

grissini

damn you motorcycle drivers

stupid arrogant bastards. enough said.

**pardon my language, i just had to let that out

i never imagined i'd feel this way

Ecstatic.

I've been getting a lot of positive reactions after posting my picture in chef's uniform & pictures of the goodies we made last week for our first day of bread baking class.

A lot of important people in my life seem happy that finally, I'm pursuing, little by little, what I've always wanted before.

Honestly, I know I still have a long way to go. There are a lot of things I have yet to learn.

Thank you...

Home Alone 5: Lost in Israel

Home Alone


Home Alone 2: Lost in New York


Home Alone 3


Home Alone 4: Taking back the House


Do I see a part 5??? -- Home Alone 5: Lost in Israel

images courtesy of wikipedia & soapchat.net

fun busy weekend

after my first day of bread making class, i got inspired to bake (well, maybe half inspired, half carried away...haha:P). so i chose to make something i've wanted to try long before...eclairs!

i got a recipe from marthastewart.com. the recipe for pastry cream filling required eggyolks. not wanting to waste the eggwhites, i thought i'd make something else with it. i decided to make meringues too.

okay okay, maybe i was ambitious to want to try 2 different recipes considering that i started at 4 p.m. already. so i settled on the meringues first & put off making the eclairs on the next day.

the result? as usual, it was tiring & the kitchen got really messy. at first i thought the meringues failed because it felt a little sticky when touched & chewy when eaten. but after keeping it in an airtight container overnight, it became dry outside & crunchy inside. just as how meringues should be. the eclairs turned out not as puffy as they should be but these also tasted great!

on the first day

on our first day of classes, these were the goodies we made...

doughnuts


berliners


bear claws


cinnamon raisin rolls


cinnamon raisin breads


danish pastries