Yeah, Adam is poor, buy my stuff or find someone who will!

Joe Rocket Blaster 2.0 Leather Jacket, Size 46, Blu/Blk/White NEWish – $150
Used PalmOne Treo 600 w/camera for Verizon – $150
USED Verizon LG VX6000 +++Xtras – $75

I’m kinda sad, EA changed their intro slogan before the game starts, not that I’ll be buying any EA games soon. Actually, it doesn’t say anything, but shows the EA logo. I guess after all the layoffs they won’t be “challenging everything.” LOL

I decided to take a break from failing to research my stupid Danish pastry paper, more rants on that later… So, below is my Swedish Limpa Rye that I made yesterday. I’m not a huge fan of rye, but it sure does smell good.

Below is my San Francisco Sourdough Bread made from a starter dough that was made last Thursday, I think. I believe there’s a crazy sour in SF that’s like a hundred years old. Yuck! or YUM rather, ha! So, notice the cool slice patterns below. I rock! LOL

Below is Stacy’s crazy Sunburst Braid. I won’t reveal exactly how its done, because it’s crazy uber. But, it is made more or less the same way as my other braids only slightly more complicated. Gotta love the ball in the middle. Reminde me of a knot I learned in boy scouts. I forget how it’s done but if I recall correctly we called it a Monkey’s Fist. NOTE: I did NOT make the below product, I’m just showing how crazy it is.

So, back to my rants. =P This section’s paper is on danishes of different European countries and any time I use a search engine like Google or Yahoo! I get the whole scandal with the Islamic satirical comic and that whole related story. I’ve been completely unsuccessful in finding the right keyword(s) to yield the correct results. I’ve checked several printed books, including my text, to no avail. I guess I shouldn’t complain. My brother had to learn Excel for one of his classes. LOL

Today, there was a job fair and such at school. One of the seminars was a resume/interview workshop and somehow we got on the topic of the FIVE taste sense. Yes, five. When discussed in the classroom what those 5 were (salty, sour, sweet, bitter, and umami) Robert and I misheard something in the last one and it sounded more like it started with a ”P” and changed a few letters in it. I’ll let your imagination figure it out.

No, Adam hasn’t turned into a girl. At least not more so, =P… I’m talking about bread knots and braids. Yesterday we did knots and brioche, and today the braids. I have to say the dough stuff of mine turned our pretty well. However, the end product was less than desireable. The knots got burned, yet another thing in the trash. =( They were so pretty too. As for the braids, they didn’t bake pretty. HEH, I woulda taken a picture, but I forgot. Hrm, apparently I forgot to take a picture of the brioche too.

So, if you stopped watching SNL like I did, you’ll be happy to know you’re proably not missing much. But, in case there’s a good sketch you’d like to see, we have the great Internet to help us out. The other day my brother showed me this SNL video on his video Ipod. It’s called Lazy Sunday with Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell. So, umm watch the video, ’cause I can’t explain it any better.

Edited: 2/18 7:45AM ::: So, apparently not everyone understands my humor, or satirical rap for that matter. Let me explain further why this video is so funny to me. First, what rapper would rap about the Chronicles of Narnia? I don’t see 50 Cent or the whole G-Unit rapping about Harry Potter. Second, rapper’s don’t boast about dropping Hamiltons. We all know it’s about the Benjamins. That’s why it’s so funny. I have to get me a stack of 10s… Third, who the heck raps about the movie theater trivia? Have you heard anyone from the Wu Tang Clan drop names like Mathew Perry, or rap about the movie The Notebook or Ghost?! I mean, come on, think of how much more fun rap would be if they all rapped about Google Maps, Mapquest or Yahoo! Maps. Some people don’t understand my humor. =(
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Ugh, today, first thing in the morning Chef snaps at me. I shouldn’t take it personal, and I should get used to it. (you might have heard of heard of all of the asshole chefs that just yell at you because your shoelace is tied wrong.) But, it was a little uncharacteristic of him. He told me to get “about a gallon of water,” he didn’t tell me what it was for or anything. So looking around the room for anything larger than a gallon, I ask him “what would you like me to put it in?” He said something like, ” I don’t care, stick it in your hat, in your pockets.” So I just grabbed the biggest bowl and started measuring a gallon from the quart measuring cups. He yells at me again, “you don’t need to measure.” Again, he didn’t tell me what it was for. I then find out it was to fill the proof box (big contraption where one would proof doughs). I felt like I was measuring water to put into the ice trays. (I guess would be the equiv.) But still, I had no idea what the water was for, so I don’t think what I did was wrong. =P… Remember this was before 7AM, before class even started. Way to start the morning off.

Everyone knows Adam is a picky eater. However, me being in a new career track I’d like to keep a more open mind; to a certain extent of course. The first plate from the culinary class couldn’t have been worse. Take all of the things Adam likes least and stick it on a plate, make it look pretty, and that’s what they brought in. I can’t exactly recall what it was, but I know it consisted of portabello mushrooms and bell peppers. Later, there was a gathering in the banquet room of German food. I had to take a look. And I think you’d all be proud that dispite playing a little Fear Factor, Adam ate rabbit! YES, I said rabbit. Some might think I’m crazy, rabbit is nothing. But if you know Adam, you know I used to never eat anything out of the ”Adam ordinary.” So, yeah, that was my day.

Speaking of rabbits, we (my lab partner and I) managed to pull a rabbit out or our hats. Dispite our puff pastry dough completely disappearing we managed to get all of our required pastries out. We borrowed some dough while making another batch, so it was a little cheating. The end results were pretty snazzy looking. It’s a little fuzzy looking but it’s a big bear claw and the fruit filled ones are puff pastry diamonds. I brought theses babies to my mom’s work shortly after school as they’d be freshest then, they disappeared quickly.

A little hiccup with my day today. My partner and I made the wrong thing on Friday and things kinda were messed up today. We were supposed to make croissant dough on Friday and prep or start the puff pastry if we had time. Unfortunately, we did the exact opposite. Lucky for me, my lab partner didn’t show up today and even luckier still someone else’s partner didn’t show so I shared her dough. So, I guess I owe her tomorrow. Since my lab partner didn’t show, I had to do her clean up job. I hope she remembers this for when it’s MY turn.

The first time I ever made croissants, I was very green, even more green than I am now. I didn’t understand how the butter (fat) was supposed to work (I think one time I just melted the butter into the dough, DOH!). Last time I think I worked with too soft a butter and it just oozed out of the dough… YUCK! Now, I know better… I hope! =)… Today’s croissants were huge successes, I’m proud to say the came out almost perfect. I had a small size difference to what I was supposed to get, but not too shabby. The look and even taste was great. I had to stop myself from eating them all… So much butter! I wonder what adventure tomorrow brings me.

So, if you take a look at my photo albums you’ll see some new pictures. Yesterday, we made these great apple-pecan muffins, and omg were they good. Good to eat, good to look at. It’s really great when you get praise from your Chef. He actually used the word “beautiful.” My lab partner made chocolate-honey muffins. So, why didn’t Adam make the chocolate item? I can’t exactly answer the question, because I don’t really know. Usually, I’d be the first to jump at anything chocolate. But, I decided to broaden my knowledge for non chocolate items. However, chocolate will always be #1 for me.

Today, my lab partner and I worked together, astonishing isn’t it. But, I’d have to say it turned out well. Take a look at the apple nut muffin pictures. Can you see the swan in the cake? I caught Chef eyeing our cake a couple times, heh. He seemed to like the swan and the defined lines. Some groups had better swirls, but I like our swan. =)

Have you checked out my chocolate strawberries? I’ll make some for you for a small price. j/k … for now. LOL

I miss the old days of Tae Kwon Do. I forget how I got here, I think it was Yahoo!’s Buzz Searches, but I came upon the The World Taekwondo Federation. I wish I was affiliated with this group… I mean come on. WTF.org!!! Damn how lucky to be WTF.org. WTF?! AHAHAHA WTF that’s funny. I don’t even remember what my school was affiliated with, if any… I’m probably not registered anywhere… Which is probably a good thing, now that I think of it. WTF?!

GRRRRRRR!!!! Today, my scones burned. I’ll take the blame since I was supposed to check on them. However, I thought my partner was checking on them because I was doing all of our dishes, wrong. At the same time she lightly burned her biscuits. So, she took mine and used them as her own. I think Chef knows somethings up, ’cause he saw the burnt biscuits. He better not think it was mine. On the good side, he loved the biscuits.

What makes things worse? My brother just IMed me and said he just met Martha Stewart at a private party in his visit to Italy. I’d SO want to meet her! Martha’s my sort of hero =( …Well, minus the whole insider trading thing =P. …ARG I’m so pissed right now.