The change

Hello everyone, Last time I promised you more secrets from the starters section but when I came into work they told me I will be changed to pastry. Apparently the pastry chef didn’t quite click with his previous staje and I didn’t quite click with my starters chef so they decided to swap us. And apparently it was a good idea… The whole week in pastry was good, even though I am not a huge fan of pastry it was very interesting for me, and the chef let me do a lot of the stuff needed.

We do a lot of ice creams and some classics like flan, apple tart tatin and pastry cream. And others like pineapple mouse or pineapple crusts. What scares me in pastry is that you can easily mess up, with something very small and there is no going back and you have to start all over which I of course already did. With the Chantilly cream, that consist of mascarpone, cream, sugar and vanilla, you combine the ingredients and you whip them the part that I messed up is that I over whipped them and then the mascarpone separates from the cream, which means starting again. Anyway it was not hard to start again and the second time I got it right. In pastry e are also responsible for the bread, that part I haven’t got close to yet and usually the chef does it himself. There is another interesting part, the next week the pastry chef is on vacation which means I will be alone in the section, for the mise en place and the service, well not completely alone of course if I need help I can ask for it and I will get it right away but in Thoko they prefer to leave us to handle thing alone.