Celebrity Chef June 2012

Every year we participate in the fundraiser for The Orpheum, Celebrity/Chef Cookoff.  We have a booth and hand out samples.   We thoroughly enjoy this event because of the people we meet and the food we taste!  This year we brought one of my newest creations.  The Mole Melt-A-Way: cinnamon, cayenne and white pepper.  

Front welcome table.

Where all the action took place.

Some of the auction items!

Wow, okay, I waited awhile between posts!

I have been busy in the kitchen practicing profiteroles, pot de creme and french macarons.  I also spent 2 weeks catching up after mother's day, but today I finally played.  Experimented with flavors, one of the joys of my job!  So, today was melt-a-ways.  I had made peanut butter melt-a-ways, and was thinking of another kind.  We have tried hazelnut and pistachio before.  I didn't want to use another nut, so I did a Vietnamese cinnamon, cayenne and white pepper dark chocolate melt-a-way.  Oh my goodness!  I finally remembered to write down what I was doing (I have a habit of forgetting what I did, and the next batch isn't quite the same).  I didn't have a picture of the new melt-a-way, but I have one of the PB melt-a-way.  Right now it is a limited time only, but if it is popular, it will be a staple!

Ketch: Employer of the Year

We received an award!  Employer of the Year from Ketch, a project of the Kansas Elks.

Attached is the video of the awards!  

Video of the KETCH Annual Awards

Stop and smell the roses

Sometimes you have to stop and smell the roses.  Farris Bueller said it best:  "Life moves pretty fast.  You don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it."  We have been so caught up in making truffles and the such, we had to take a moment.

Girl Scouts 100 Year Celebration 4-28-2012

Saturday, we were at the Girl Scouts 100 Year Celebration in Greensburg!  First off, the town is coming along quite nicely (we were there with Habitat for Humanity after the tornado building houses).  The scouts (girl and boy) have a wonderful building for their meetings and such.  This was the building we were in.  Outside, they had activities all over the town!  I don't think that there was time to do everything, there was just so many activities.  We sold some of our products and donated cake pops and rice krispie treats for the scouts to decorate with colored white chocolate.  They had so much fun!  We also handed out information for troops for badges (we host parts of badges for different ages).

Our set up (we were in the kitchen, which worked out great for messy hands!)

Yum, cake pops waiting to be decorated!

The scouting building.  They were selling GS 100 year merchandise!

One of the troops decorating (by the time I remembered to take another picture, we were out of cake pops and decorating rice krispie treats!)

Old Town Wine Walk-A-Bout 4-19-12

For the second year, we participated in the Old Town Wine Walk-A-Bout benefiting the Guadeloupe Clinic.   Again this year, we were with Grace Hill Winery in the City Arts Building!  We served honeycomb (sponge) and caramel both dipped in dark chocolate.  By the end of the night, we were exhausted and served 15lb of honeycomb and 12 lbs of caramel!  Thank you to all who came out to support!

Truffles, truffles and more truffles

It has been a few weeks of making truffles.  I haven't really been posting because that is all I am doing.  There are times when exciting things going on in the candy making world.  There are times when all you do is the same thing over and over.  This is one of those times.  

Truffles waiting to be dipped

Truffles getting their chocolate

Ahhhh... They have their chocolate suits on.