Another week down, another post up.
Spring has arrived here in Melbourne. Amongst others things such as Fashion Week and the Racing Carnivals, i'm most glad to say its the start of the sunnier seasons :)
Work was great this week! I was a little apprehensive heading in, just because of my lacklustre performance last weekend, but a little reassurance (thanks mum) and self-confidence was obviously enough to make the difference. My chef even asked me to work the next day, and return the following weekend for the same two days. Good signs right?
So Friday is officially retitled as Tubeday now. I pumped out 260 of Burch and Purchese's intricately layered taste tubes, more then usual due to an order to be picked up the following day. As painful a job as they seem (so precise and repetitive), its also helpful doing alot of them and often and it helps me memorise their components and structure well. I still think 260 for an individual may be some sort of record, if not a good PB lol.
Saturday was significantly less tubular thankfully, as i pumped out a couple of the house crumbles that are incorporated throughout a few of the desserts and also sold as retail packs. This consisted of some grand scale mixing. I don't think i've ever mixed anything with 3kg of melted butter in it before, but even then it was overly buttery because there was just SO MUCH bulk of dry ingredients that it was soaked up. Good fun though. Each new recipe is a challenge and a new lesson to learn, the times they work out first go feel awesome, and the times its takes a couple of attempts not so. But its how we learn from our mistakes that define us. Really keen for nexts weeks shifts, i've even enquired about getting a company chef jacket so i can look suave like the rest of them :)
Also i booked some tickets to head home for a couple of days at the start of October. KEEN AS! I miss my family and little dogs so much, can't wait to share all my adventures with them in the near future. Time to enjoy some of this sunshine.
