Recipes

On the first day of pastry school almost one year ago, Chef said the recipes in the book we used in class are now ours. We could go out and open a bakery using these recipes, but he wouldn't recommend it.

I want to open a place where I know the recipes are original and different. Not just a "thaw & serve" menu. All you have to do is change 10% of a recipe and it's now your own. I have changed so many recipes I can't keep track. But I still have yet to be truly happy with a recipe. I can now empathize with my husband who is never quite satisfied with any of his art work.

However, this can't keep happening. I must finalize recipes if I am to open my own place one day.

Tonight I baked Trail Mix cookies. It's a chocolate chunk cookie, with peanut butter chips, oatmeal, and cranberries. I liked the thickness of the cookies, and the overall flavor, but I feel like they are missing something. They are good, but they need to be great in order to sell in a shop.

I guess I just need more guinea pigs...