I’m Going to Pastry School!

Because life right now isn't weird enough, here is my other big news of the week...I started Pastry School! Its an online school for the next year and a half. Auguste Escoffier School for Culinary Arts offers in person and online culinary degrees and certificate programs, and I enrolled a few weeks ago.

I've always loved to bake and between COVID and all the other stressors of the last year, I turned to baking often. Clearly, chocolate always makes me feel better, but that’s not really the healthiest coping strategy - or so my scale tells me. There is a different mindfulness and stress relief that also comes from baking.

Add on top of this that its been a dream of mine to be a chef or baker...and I signed up for Pastry School!

I considered postponing it when a couple challenges (particularly my cancer diagnosis) popped up this year...but this is something I am doing for me. Its a dream, it makes me happy, and I love learning about how scientific and chemistry-oriented baking is...all my inner nerd is coming out. If I can make a spreadsheet too, all bases would be covered. So I'm doing it!

First online class was this past Wednesday. I'll be working on my first assignment this weekend. Cannot wait for what is to come!

Updated with new photos! Biscotti - cinnamon raisin (bottom) and cranberry-white chocolate (top) from Week 4 of class