August 13th, 2009
I’ve finished my first three days as a film caterer and so far it’s been successful (I think). I’ve made a lot of sandwiches, biscuits and hummus which all seemed to go down well. The oatmeal, raisin and banana cookies were a hit (recipe and picture to follow) and I’m getting very good at hummus.
I’ve got 2 days off now, which is great because I’m knackered. I feel like I haven’t sat down in 3 days. This weekend I’m doing a couple of proper dinners for the cast and crew; pasta (Orzo) salad with roasted veg one day and then pasta with pesto, potatoes and green beans the other. It’s going to be a pasta based weekend, but hopefully no-one will mind and we are on a budget after all!
I’d love to post some photos but I’ve lent my camera to Jonic to get photos of the shoot so that’ll have to wait. Let’s hope it all carries on going so smoothly. You can read about the progress of the film on Miles’ blog.
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August 11th, 2009
My lovely friend Miles is making a film in York in the next two weeks and I, like the flipping dork I am, volunteered to do the food.
We started last night, making sandwiches, biscuits (flapjacks = fail) and plenty of hummus for the troops. I had help from the lovely Miss Helen Batty and from Jonic. It was actually a lot of fun.
Tonight is a similar night but instead of 15 people to cook for, there are 40. Two of whom are allergic to eggs. When I was vegetarian I found it really annoying when people didn’t take that into consideration and I was a bit of an afterthought so I’m trying to make most things egg-free.
With that in mind, I’ve been trying to figure out how to make some oatmeal raisin cookies without egg. I’ve been googling and apparently you can substitute half a mashed banana per egg in a lot of recipes. I didn’t know that and I’m really intrigued to try it out. I’ll let you know if it works. If it does then that might be the first recipe I put up here. Exciting stuff!
I will try to take some photos as the catering continues. Fingers crossed that everyone enjoys it and I don’t poison them.
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July 23rd, 2009
I’ve been home for a week and a half now and it’s back to normal life, work and a house covered in cat hair. I’m very glad to be back though, I missed it a lot.
I have grand plans to do lots of baking and things, so I will get back to blogging soon – hopefully with recipes and pictures and all that jazz.
Bear with me!
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July 10th, 2009
I’ve officially finished school! Exams are done, things are packed, all that remains is our farewell dinner at Ballymaloe house (and obligatory after-dinner visit to the pub).
My exams went ok I think. The practical wasn’t as scary as I thought it would be, up to the point where I had to get everything together for serving. Then I went a bit nervous and confused, but I pulled it all together and I think it looked pretty good. I had to make white yeast bread rolls as well, which turned out well (very good dough). I was very proud of how my dessert looked – I’m not very good at presentation but it was very pretty.
Written exams were a lot harder than expected. All the things we thought they wouldn’t ask were asked and there were a lot of very strange questions as well. I think I did ok though, as long as they can read my horrible scrawl.
All in all, I don’t think there’s any question of me not passing, but I think all hopes of a distinction are out of the window. A ‘highly commended’ would be lovely, but I’m not confident. I just have to wait 2 months now for my results.
Everyone in our house seems to be tidying or organising the kitchen and I seem to be getting out of it. There are benefits to being the youngest – everyone thinks you’re a bit useless at stuff like that! I did ask if they needed any help and they said no, so I feel justified!
Right, off to get ready for dinner now. Must try not to drink too much booze – dinner at the Tannery tomorrow and I’m very excited. Don’t want to be hungover and ruin it!
I’m going home!
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July 6th, 2009
One of the students organised an awesome beach barbeque for us all as a thank you to the staff and as our first farewell party.We had spit-roasted piglet which was yummy, although a bit disturbing watching it being prepared!
The piglet is prepared
Poor piggy
The sun finally comes out!
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