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Hi everyone! It has been a long time since I have been on here! I know you are wondering why, well actually it is because I have moved to San Francisco,CA for six months. I am out here completing my externship in a pastry kitchen. An externship is basically the same thing as a internship, but it is called extern because you leave your school for six months and go out into the world and work in your field. I am enjoying my extern and I am gaining so much more experience, from creating recipes, baking bread everyday, filling out inventory papers and even a little behind the bar action! My goal for this experience in California is to become well rounded in more aspects of the restaurant than the kitchen. I work front of the house as well as back of the house in two different restaurants. I think it is very important to all aspects of the restaurant from the dishwasher job to the highest position because it will make you a great boss, manager or chef one day.

As I come to an end of my extern experience, I have set a few academic goals. My first goal is to pass my extern assignment. The next goal is to raise my current gpa. I currently have a 3.5 grade point average in school but my goal is to graduate with at least a 3.8- 3.9. My final goal is to graduate from The Culinary Institute of America.

Ms. Jazzie Cake

I am a Pastry cook so we make A LOT of dessert. I haven't got to take a lot of pictures because were so busy but here are a couple of pictures of rice pudding, death by chocolate sundae and our Boston creme pie that we make.

So, as you may know I have recently graduated high school and have stepped into the adult world. I now live in Washington, DC and work at this restaurant. I am a Pastry Cook there. So anyways, at the farm we are like a family and sometimes the workers and other chefs come to the Pastry Studio and ask for desserts. So the dishwashers every night ask for banana splits. So I make them minis because they are really cute and fast to eat when your busy. For your viewing pleasure I will show you the regular size versus the mini.

As you may know I recently got the opportunity to travel to Kansas City as a part of the SkillsUSA National Competition. I represented North Carolina going up against 37 other different states. I got to meet a lotof different people like people that I will be attending The Culinary Institute of America with, people from Hawaii and I even got to meet Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs and a portion of our baking competition will be included on his new show called, "Somebody's Gotta Do It". Well let me cut to the chase because I am a very busy girl! I had to practice multiple desserts that I had never made before. And CHALLAH Bread was one of them. I am usually HORRIBLE with making complicated breads but it was really simple and my braid even came out pretty. My family ate it with spaghetti that night.

As you may know I recently got the opportunity to travel to Kansas City as a part of the SkillsUSA National Competition. I represented North Carolina going up against 37 other different states. I got to meet a lot of different people like people that I will be attending The Culinary Institute of America with, people from Hawaii and I even got to meet Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs and a portion of our baking competition will be included on his new show called, "Somebody's Gotta Do It". Well let me cut to the chase because I am a very busy girl! I had to practice multiple desserts that I had never made before. And Lattice-Styled Pie was one of them. This pie I made was a strawberry and blueberry pie. This pie was sort of kind of difficult because I had never made a pie top like that. Slicing the strips evenly were the most difficult part. But I have been back to work at the farm recently and found a slicer that slices multiple things the same size at the same time. I think it is called something like a bicycle cutter or something! It is really cool!

As you may know I recently got the opportunity to travel to Kansas City as a part of the SkillsUSA National Competition. I represented North Carolina going up against 37 other different states. I got to meet a lotof different people like people that I will be attending The Culinary Institute of America with, people from Hawaii and I even got to meet Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs and a portion of our baking competition will be included on his new show called, "Somebody's Gotta Do It". Well let me cut to the chase because I am a very busy girl! I had to practice multiple desserts that I had never made before. And Cannolis were one of them. They turned out really great and tastes delicious.

I made the lemon meringues to sell at school and made some and took them to my coworkers. I was given many great compliments. It has a lemon curd in the middle with a meringue topping. I also torched the meringue to brown it.