Feb.16, 2005
It was Day 6 and the final class of Bars and Squares, the continuing education course at GBC.
Wow, it was finally over !
To think back to the first class, I was so surprised at the amount of sugar and butter. I was like, "Oh, my gosh. I made a terrible choice to take this course... Those sweets will be literally killing me! And, and, ... good heavens! I will poison Yoshi!! "
Yes, I could have dropped out. Only it would be impossible to get a full refund. They would deduct 20 or 30 % of all the tuition fee. I don't remember exactly but I didn't like the idea, you know. I chose to take all the classes with full payment paid rather than paying for nothing in hand.
Anyway,
This course has 24 hrs in all. 4 hrs for each class. It costed less than C$250- with all the food included. The instructor Pat was a professional pastry chef who revised all the recipes we used in this class. According to her, the former recipes that the school provided totally sucked. She took them to her work and changed everything written in the 13 recipes. It sounded hard work. And that made the quality of the class higher.
All in all, the classes were fun.
My partner Sam was a fun guy except for that he annoyed me by fooling around and eating ingredients (giggle).
I met a new Japanese friend Yuko. She gave me her email address after class. We can make a good friend to each other.
And above all, now I know how to make unhealthy yet tempting bars and squares!!
.... Oh, by the way, what I made today were Deluxe Lemon Bars and Date/Orange Squares.
Lemon one was made mostly from eggs. On top of the crumby pie base pre-baked, eggs and lemon juice mixture (with SUGAR twice as much in it) was poured. As it was done, it looked like scrambled egg. No wonder, it was egg mixture. The filling was quite soggy and looked undercooked. ... Wasn't it really undercooked? I can't tell because Pat, the instructor was the one who can handle the huge oven in the lab. No students were allowed to touch for the safety. And Pat found it was done and took it from the oven. It should have been cooked enough.
And do you know what dates are? They are a kind of fruits. It is shaped oval... well, I am not sure what it is, either. I heard about it for the first time when I went to ESL (English school) 1 and 1/2 years ago. Anyway, it is dried fruit tastes quite like 干し柿.
I like the date/orange one better. The filling is mixture of cooked date paste, orange zest and orange juice. It goes perfectly with the pie base and topping. The bar is formed of 3 layers, by the way.
バーアンドスクエアコース、最後のクラスでした。
…いやぁ～、初日からいきなり目眩がしそうな甘さのナナイモバーを作らされて（笑）私とYoshiの健康はどうなっちゃうんだろぅ
なんて心配したのが、昨日のことのようですょ～。
総じて、楽しかったかな？
（寒い日
とか
の日は、超絶いやいやながら通ったですけどね。）
でもほんとまじで、アメリカ人はなぜ
ってるかということを
身を以て体験しました（笑）…いや、ここはカナダですけども北米の人は。
あんな大量の砂糖とバターとでできたお菓子を平気で消費できる国なのです。
（北米の方々、失礼なコト言ってごめんなさい。）
今日作ったのは
デラックスレモンバーと、デイト・オレンジスクエアです。
デイトっていうのは、ナツメヤシの実なんだそうです（英和辞書より。）
干したデイトを水と砂糖で煮詰めてオレンジジュースを加えたものが、スクエアの中に入ってる茶色のアレです。
干し柿みたいな食感と味。。
見た目はまずそうだけど、なんか結構おいしいんですょ！
It was Day 6 and the final class of Bars and Squares, the continuing education course at GBC.
Wow, it was finally over !
To think back to the first class, I was so surprised at the amount of sugar and butter. I was like, "Oh, my gosh. I made a terrible choice to take this course... Those sweets will be literally killing me! And, and, ... good heavens! I will poison Yoshi!! "
Yes, I could have dropped out. Only it would be impossible to get a full refund. They would deduct 20 or 30 % of all the tuition fee. I don't remember exactly but I didn't like the idea, you know. I chose to take all the classes with full payment paid rather than paying for nothing in hand.
Anyway,
This course has 24 hrs in all. 4 hrs for each class. It costed less than C$250- with all the food included. The instructor Pat was a professional pastry chef who revised all the recipes we used in this class. According to her, the former recipes that the school provided totally sucked. She took them to her work and changed everything written in the 13 recipes. It sounded hard work. And that made the quality of the class higher.
All in all, the classes were fun.
My partner Sam was a fun guy except for that he annoyed me by fooling around and eating ingredients (giggle).
I met a new Japanese friend Yuko. She gave me her email address after class. We can make a good friend to each other.
And above all, now I know how to make unhealthy yet tempting bars and squares!!
.... Oh, by the way, what I made today were Deluxe Lemon Bars and Date/Orange Squares.
Lemon one was made mostly from eggs. On top of the crumby pie base pre-baked, eggs and lemon juice mixture (with SUGAR twice as much in it) was poured. As it was done, it looked like scrambled egg. No wonder, it was egg mixture. The filling was quite soggy and looked undercooked. ... Wasn't it really undercooked? I can't tell because Pat, the instructor was the one who can handle the huge oven in the lab. No students were allowed to touch for the safety. And Pat found it was done and took it from the oven. It should have been cooked enough.
And do you know what dates are? They are a kind of fruits. It is shaped oval... well, I am not sure what it is, either. I heard about it for the first time when I went to ESL (English school) 1 and 1/2 years ago. Anyway, it is dried fruit tastes quite like 干し柿.
I like the date/orange one better. The filling is mixture of cooked date paste, orange zest and orange juice. It goes perfectly with the pie base and topping. The bar is formed of 3 layers, by the way.
バーアンドスクエアコース、最後のクラスでした。
…いやぁ～、初日からいきなり目眩がしそうな甘さのナナイモバーを作らされて（笑）私とYoshiの健康はどうなっちゃうんだろぅ
なんて心配したのが、昨日のことのようですょ～。総じて、楽しかったかな？
（寒い日
とかの日は、超絶いやいやながら通ったですけどね。）でもほんとまじで、アメリカ人はなぜ
ってるかということを身を以て体験しました（笑）…いや、ここはカナダですけども北米の人は。
あんな大量の砂糖とバターとでできたお菓子を平気で消費できる国なのです。
（北米の方々、失礼なコト言ってごめんなさい。）
今日作ったのは
デラックスレモンバーと、デイト・オレンジスクエアです。
デイトっていうのは、ナツメヤシの実なんだそうです（英和辞書より。）
干したデイトを水と砂糖で煮詰めてオレンジジュースを加えたものが、スクエアの中に入ってる茶色のアレです。
干し柿みたいな食感と味。。
見た目はまずそうだけど、なんか結構おいしいんですょ！
Oh, please.
Don't make fun of me!!
But...., yeah, I might be missing him a finger-tip bit 3 years later or so. MAYBE
Do you have any interests like mine baking stuffs or something, by the way?