Koko's Kitchen

Category Archives: Culinary

January 15, 2010

The Choux Paste Returns!

Yesterday we got the opportunity to finsih off our choux pastries. We whipped up some pastry cream, which I’ll post the recipe for, and then we chilled it. We got our  pastries out of the freezer, and we poked one whole in each of the puffs, and a hole at each end of the eclairs.... read more →
January 10, 2010

Soft Rolls

Today I had my first baking class and it was much less like the bootcamp experience we had in Pastry class. With a more relaxed atmosphere, we made blueberry muffins, peanut butter sandies, and soft rolls. I’ve chosen to share with you the soft rolls, because they look quite nice when they are done, and……they... read more →
January 6, 2010

Intro to Pastry

I’ve now started my second term at cooking school and this includes an Introduction to Pastry class. We started the week off by making several things- vanilla poached pears, pate sucree (sweet tart dough), frangipane, classic genoise, and choux pastry to name a few. So far, I have only taken pictures of the choux pastry-... read more →
December 17, 2009

Black Box Competition

In my last day in the kitchen at cooking school, we had a ‘black box competition’ of sorts. Normally in a black box competition all of your main ingredients are a secret (hidden in a black box). For us, only our protein was a secret from us. We were allowed to prepare recipes and bring... read more →
December 10, 2009

Exam Update!

Hi everyone! I just wanted to give you a little update on how my practical cooking exam went…..really well!!!!! I was absolutely thrilled with the chicken that I made and received 30/30 on it- not bad for a vegetarian who had only cooked chicken once before I also rocked the hollandaise sauce but when I... read more →
December 7, 2009

Week 10- EXAM TIME!

I have been SUPER busy lately, and verrrrrry stressed out, so yes….I apologize- I have missed a couple weeks worth of posting. But I’ll tell you this- it’s been going great! I’m in a fabulous group and we are working really hard and receiving great marks. I also learned out to fillet a fish, and... read more →