cheflez: Week 6 of SP

May 4, 2013 Saturday
VIA to Toronto: I arrived in Union Station around 11am, Mandy picked me up and we first went to her place to drop off some goodies from my class (I had been freezing some cakes, and keeping the chocolate bonbons in fridge for a while), then we went to have Taiwanese noodle, and bubble tea. Then, we went to Chef Norbert Maushagen's shop to get isomalt. He teaches in George Brown College, but I never took his class, only Mandy had. Chef asked for my name, and recognized my name on Facebook. He asked me what I needed the isomalt for, and I told him it was for my sugar showpiece practice. Chef was nice enough to give me some left over isomalt for free, so that I could practice. It's very kind of him to do so. He also recommended me to get the cheap lamp in IKEA, and the 250w heat lamp bulb in Home Depot. And I did. Then, we went back to Mandy's place to pick up my luggage, and she dropped me off at Kevin's. We had sushi for dinner.

May 5, 2013 Sunday
Flea Market: I had never been to a flea market in Toronto before, thanks Kevin for bringing me there. It's actually in Kensington Market.

Lunch in Fran's Restaurant http://www.fransrestaurant.com

Wally :-)

Henry :-)

One of my favourite musical shows is RENT, I have seen it more then 20 times. http://www.siteforrent.com This one was a small production in Lower Ossington Theatre http://lowerossingtontheatre.com , I still enjoyed it very much.

Pizza for dinner!

May 6, 2013 Monday
VIA to Ottawa: Mandy picked me up at 7am, and dropped me off at her place before she went to work. It was time to go back to Ottawa.......

May 7, 2013 Tuesday
Lecture #108: Since Chef Hervé Chabert was in the Skill Ontario Competition, we had Chef Jocelyn Bouzenard teaching instead. Today Chef Jocelyn demonstrated how to do a sugar showpiece. The showpiece looked beautiful!

May 8, 2013 Wednesday
Workshop #208: We had Chef Arnaud Bonnefoy today. Here's my first attempt sugar showpiece.

Dinner with Erin's mom, Amy: After class, we were invited to have dinner with Amy at Aulde Dubliner. Thanks Amy for treating us dinner! :-)

Dina, Erin, Chad, Amy, Matt, Quinn, Cindy, Jason, and moi

Poutine

May 10, 2013 Friday
Complimentary Dinner for Superior Pastry Students @ Signatures: This would be our final complimentary dinner at Signatures. We had Chef Jocelyn Bouzenard and Chef Hervé Chabert with us.

I had only 2 sips. Quinn and Daneet finished the rest for me.

Bruna and Lisa

I gave the whole glass to Jocelyne. This girl can drink!

Bruna and Lisa again

Isabella and Geordan

Erin P.

Erin, Bruna, Lisa and moi

Monica

Allison and Vicky

Jason and Cindy

Robyn, Chef Hervé Chabert and Quinn

Andrea

Chef Jocelyn Bouzenard, Lisa and Jocelyne

Bruna and Daneet

Jason, Quinn and moi

Jason, Cindy and moi

Cindy was drunk!

That bowl is bigger than her face!

Chef Jocelyn Bouzenard, Cindy and Chef Hervé Chabert

Chef Hervé Chabert and Bruna

After dinner, some of us went to drink more at Jocelyne's place, then went for more in Pub 101.

Cindy and Monica

Jason, Quinn, Jocelyne, Cindy and Monica

More alcohol :-)

Bruna and Lisa

May 11, 2013 Saturday
Food, Flowers, and Fine Art: We started with Northern inspired lunch at the National Arts Center's Le Café. Then we checked out the Canadian Tulip Festival in Major's Hill Park. And finally, we visited the National Gallery of Canada, especially for the artworks by Inuit artists.

Chef John Morris and his staff have prepared a table d'hote based on their Northern Scene menu, truly Canadian food.

Jason, Dina and moi

The Canadian Tulip Festival has grown to become the largest Tulip Festival in the world. It preserves the local heritage of Canada's role in freeing the Dutch during World War II, and the symbolic tulip; a gift in perpetuity to the Canadian people for providing a safe harbour to the Dutch Royal Family at that time.