The Good Rabbi's Blog

Last Friday, I completed my advanced baking & pastry unit. After spending a good three weeks baking cakes, cookies, and making various pastries and petit-fours, I'm now moving on to advanced Garde Manger. At this point, I thought I'd stop and reflect on my final plated dessert competency.

In an earlier post, I mentioned that this is one of my favourite times of the year. One reason I feel this way is because of all the cool decorations that people put up. This is one of the only times of the year where everyone takes pride in their dwelling. They go to various lengths to decorate their abodes. No matter the size of a given house, it will be decorated to some extent. Hell, even one of the homeless people here in San Francisco plugs in some lights on his cardboard box (he sleeps near an electrical outlet). I have firsthand knowledge that these lights are some of the most frustrating things known to man (much like Barbra Streisand), so I figure that if people will go to the effort required to put these lights up, the least I can do is look at them.

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