In my younginhood, I distincly remember living on this blog. Through work, through school, through everything. Now I feel like I never come to babble. It's not like I don't have a head full of things to babble about. Writer, Storyteller, I'm good at that. Why am I using SOOOO many commas today? Oi.
ANYWAY! I'm a bad DBC member again and totally late on this months challenge. Why? Because my body hates me. First I got a cold. Then it became the head cold from hell and I took to the store to treat it. I bought two differnt brands of cold medicine. I attacked this cold. I took the full weeks worth of brand #1 which rid me of my runny nose and general congestion. Success! Then I took brand #2 for about 5 days until I felt my cold was officially gone. I felt lovely and well for one whole day. one. and then last Saturday happened.
I woke up feeling off and oddly crampy. I ate my standard breakfast (granola bar and a bottle of water) and did my workout. I had a bagel and cream cheese with The Momma and Auntie (yep, I'm a hobbit and typically have a second breakfast about 3 hours after my morning granola bar). Lunch was a smorgasboard of breakfast. I had a sampling of everything and was certainly full but I didn't eat anything out of the ordinary. Dinner was super simple. That was that. I wake up Sunday and die.
I woke up, happy as could be, YAY Sunday. Now that I'm all graduated, Sundays are blissful for me. I typically don't have plans and it's honestly the only day of the week that I don't. So I veg out. I spend the day with my tivo and my laptop or a book and my stereo and I enjoy it. Ohhh do I enjoy it.
I woke up. Took my dauly regimne of vitamins and such and sat down for breakfast, which consisted of a super simple egg & cheese frittata. I took three bites and the overwhelming nausea set in. I was queasy the rest of the day anytime I so much as thought of eating. I was supposed to make up the challenge for dinner and opted not to because I knew I wouldn't be eating it.
I wrote it off as a big lunch the day before and called it good.
Monday I was still nauseas and generally feeling like ass. So i made an appointment to see my doctor.
Wednesday I find out my body is basically going through withdrawls from my cold meds and my stomach is tripping out. So for this next week I am to consume a bland diet, nothing fatty, nothing spicy. *sigh*
luckily i love bread, toast, plan chicken, and chicken soup. What i don't love is havign to eat basically the same thing everyday. But I will say I feel a million times better.
ANYWAY.
I was thinking about how I would be posting my DBC late again this month and then it dawned on me, I never posted the pictures from last month.
How dare i!?
so without further adieu, i bring you...DBC August 2012, Pate a Choux Swans, the pictures.
read the previous entry if you want the full story of these lovely swans.
Prepared to bake!
Who says you can't drink and bake? Chefs drink wine while they cook, right? Me I broke out the delicious seagrams wine cooler wannabe. yummy companion to baking without the threat of burning myself.
Pate a Choux take one was done on a Friday night. Here goes the first reciepe cooking up all happy and fluffy
looked pretty nice to me
piping it was fun. i'm out of practice with shapes I tell ya. But I was pretty proud of myself.
i mean look at those swan heads!
unfortunately, the poufs id nout pouf!
I went to bed thinking I'll figure this out tomorrow and basically calling it a fail.
In the morning I settle in to make the fillings for my on-puffed swans and realized there was a complete;y differnt set of instructions for hte same pate a coux reciepe included with the pastry cream reciepe.
Take 2!
yah, thats a frikken egg, shell & all in my batch of pate achoux! epic fail again
pastry cream a cooking
this time I got some poufs!
Seriously, how awesome are these heads!
my finished swans...
So there! Now I've sharedpitures. I even got a flickr comment telling me they looked yummy! yay :)
Hey, did I tell you my hair is blue now?
1:43 p.m. - Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012