Raisns are uncooperative grapes

Friday we had classes... this happens two or three times a term and they are a pain. And they wipe me out so you all are getting this blog a day late.

Today we had a mountain of things to produce and our usual 6 hours... more like 4 hours after lecture to produce them. Remember the dough we made yesterday and left in the fridge... well using that dough we made quiche! Each member of the class was to create their own filling and produce their own quiche. I went with bacon, mushrooms, onion and cheddar cheese. In cooking the bacon I found out where the school puts the stoves that are less than stellar... they go to baking and pastry, which kind of made me giggle because of all the trouble we had with the ovens upstarts in one of my culinary labs! Let me just say that the ovens in the baking and pastry labs are awesome!

After quiche came Dutch apple pie! I cannot stand apple pie... something about the texture of cooked apples... As I was mixing the filling for the pie (apples, cinnamon, sugar, and nutmeg) Chef came over and asked if I was putting anything in the filling, maybe raisins. I feel the need to confess here that I cannot stand raisins. I have also realized that Chef has a sense of humor, so I smiled and sweetly said, "Nope, raisins are uncooperative grapes and I'm not a fan of them." He raised an eyebrow at me and I continued, "the good grapes turn into wine, and that I adore." Watching him try not to bust out laughing was a pleasure. He smiled as if my explanation made total sense.

Muffins round out the list of things that we had to produce for the day! These might have been the most difficult item of the day only because we had to create their dough from scratch and weren't pulling it out of the fridge like we did with the dough for the quiche and apple pie crusts. Chef seems to be fond of letting the groups of students personalize their products, I find this fantastic and it allowed us to turn basic muffins into chocolate chip ones!

In a rare treat, we were permitted to take our quiches home, since time did not allow us to taste them in class. I must say that I rather enjoyed the slice I had yesterday and enjoyed the slice I had while writing this today even more! I paired it with a glass of viogner. While I'm not a huge fan of white wines I do know that they taste far better with eggs than the big reds that I adore!