Day TWENTY. Get Over It.

Day TWENTY. Get over it. Well, our first class was not a class at all today. It was meeting with our chef mentor to go over progress/help/recommendations. And my group got Chef Toullie. Ugh. It's fine though, he knows us the best out of all of them so far. Being last on the list in my group, I went last, everyone was to meet with him individually to have 15 minutes to go over things, so I waited 2.75 hours to talk to him for 5 minutes if that....others went way over time and I was left with nothing. I told him I have a hard time memorizing, and asked for tips and he told me to "get over it." Yah thanks for nothing buddy. He's a nice guy, just when he's short on time, he can be short. I had 5 minutes to change into my cooking clothes (apron, towels, hat, hairnet) before practical class happened. Lemon cake and Madeleine's. Mine both turned out pretty good I think. I was in a hurry to pipe my Madeleine's into the pans, I didn't realize there was a certain way to pipe them, but apparently there was, and Chef T walked by and saw my lazy piping. They turned out great, and had good height, but he only focused on my piping. Whatever. Get over it. :) Then we had a third class today, where we learned our third dish for our final, Genoise a la Confiture de Framboises. Aka Genoise Sponge Cake layered with raspberry jam. Make sponge cake, cut in half, brush bottom half with syrup, cover that with raspberry jam made by you as well, add a layer of buttercream, add the other layer of cake, frost the whole thing, and delcorate. Half of this is decorating. The sides and top must be perfectly straight & piping on top must be 'elegant and pristine' two things of which I am not. Ha! The buttercream I must say is wickedly smooth. Amazing. Light, creamy, airy, but still has thickness, not like sweet buttercream at home, this has no powdered sugar, starts off with cooking sugar and water, whisking eggs, and blending the two together. Each of the three final dishes is hard in its own way. I can't decide which one more than the other because they are hard in different things. I don't want to dwell on it though, I need some sleep for the 540am wake up call to get to class by 8am. Goodnight.