POTD - Picture of the day

So here I was thinking why I don't update my blog every-so-often. There's nothing to say. Duh. I always have something to talk about. It's just that it seeps into my lucid dreams and somehow gets diluted in the daily toils of the day. Pastry production, watching tv, rushing to and from work....

Why only today I.... hmm .... you know when you think about it, it becomes insignificant... so gotta get it when it's fresh, which is why I'm going to start this thing * crossing fingers it lasts longer than a week*

Picture of the Day!... to which I'll take with my trusty Motorola L7 so please don't belittle the lack of megapixels. ~grin~ HINT HINT... see previous blog post.

Today's picture is


That my friends is a dessert done for the a charity rugby dinner held at work. It's a Chocolate hazelnut royaltine (for those of you in the know say "aaaaaahhh!") sprayed green and piped with white chocolate to resemble a rugby field embellished with white chocolate goal posts and a quenelle of raspberry sorbet in the shape of a rugby ball. Cute huh? Well we did like 500 of those rugby fields. Them poor service staff had to carry them two by two so they had a lot of running to do to get them to the positively liquor libated guests at the charity auction.

Timeline to get them done :

To make 40 trays of hazelnut royaltine = 5 days
To cut and spray 40 trays of hazelnut royaltine = 7 hours
To pipe white chocolate field lines = 6.5 hours
To churn and quenelle 500 pcs of raspberry sorbet = 9 hours
To pipe 600 * cause they kept on breaking* white chocolate goal posts = 4.5 hours

That makes a grand total of 147 hours for one dessert. Could you imagine our work load? That's juggling our daily production, our other banqueting functions, Inter Kitchen Transfer requests, last minute requests from the royal palace, last minute setup changes and the like.

At the end of the night, it all ran smoothly, we had a good time, adrenaline pumped, my executive chef was chasing my sous chef around playing tag like little kiddies.

So in conclusion, the POTD is a way for me to highlight my day and so i'll have something to blog about. More to come...

p/s I agree with banning underweight models. Plus sizes! plus sizes!! I prefer my men meaty anyways ~grin~

Adios!