Today we made pain aux cereals which is similar to the pain
de tradition, but with the fermented spelt (d’epeautre), pain au mais which is
a corn bread made with wheat flour, but with some of the kernels as well as
some maize flour and sunflower seeds. It also contains a colourant as the maize
flour would normally come out white so with the additive (ameliorant) it comes
out a cool yellow colour with an amazing aroma. Chef reckons it’s good for a
vegetarian sandwich, but I think a slab of that with some chilli con carne or
some bacon and tomato chutney would definitely hit the spot.
We also made pain de tradition again and finished preparing
the brioche for the next day. 1/3 plain, in the mavette shape, 1/3 au chocolat
and 1/3 avec pralines Lyonnaise, which were shaped into boules.
The entree for lunch was a club sandwich...the bread of
which was lightly toasted with some curry powder which reminded me of mom’s
curries and making my curried butternut soup. It was good, very nicely
presented as well with some sort of a tomato coulis and a mayo.
The main was fish, it must’ve been a smallish fish as the
portion size was 2 smallish fillets, spiced with some aromatic spices including
coriander, pepper, fennel and had a blob of marmalade on top which was
surprisingly good with the other flavours and the fresh herbs. To accompany the
fish there were potatoes with garlic and herbs, courgettes which had been cut
in a way which looked like it would be a pain in the ass if you had to prep
that for 100 odd pax and a tomato salsa/relish and basil pesto.
I met a guy named Thierry who stayed at Fatiha’s (the lady I’m
staying with) place for the night. She apparently rents out her room as well
and then she just crashes on the floor in the kitchen on a mattress. She’s
really cool like this, her house is full of paintings that she’s done and has
loads of bright colours and she seems like one of those free spirited people.
They invited me to go to some music event somewhere but I was still exhausted from the week so I declined.
They invited me to go to some music event somewhere but I was still exhausted from the week so I declined.
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