Here is the design we came up with for the plates:
Plates with cake, cream cheese frosting and the first layer of lemon curd:
Finished product:
While I was plating desserts I had a high school student (I think her name is Aubrey) dice my potatoes and I walked Elle through how to plate salads for lunch. As it got closer to the time we needed to start plating lunches I fried my potatoes (I was making cottage fries) and tossed them with sauteed onions and the roasted red peppers from Tuesday. They looked pretty good. They were served with Elle's barbecue rubbed flank steak.
Kami helped us serve as I'm a gimp and didn't want to hobble back and forth and chance dropping something and halfway through she came in and told me someone wanted a lunch to go. I switched it all over into a to go box when she came back and said they wanted a salad and the dessert to go as well. I made a fresh salad and then we came to the dilemma of how to box up my dessert. . . Amy came to the rescue. She went searching the storage room and came back with what I lovingly call ... the ghetto cake to go box:
Yes, it is taped together. :) Way to go Amy. I think I laughed for about 10 minutes.I was extremely happy with what I accomplished today and I thought my desserts turned out really nice, especially for me.
My feet were beyond mad at me by the time I left the kitchen. I'm worried that I am overworking them and I think I might want to take it easy so that they don't take longer to heal. I think I'll rotate out between computer class/job seeking skills class and the kitchen so I don't have to be stuck in a boring one too long but I'm not killing myself in the kitchen either.
All in all I was happy with what I accomplished today and loved being back in the kitchen, regardless of the pain. I'm pretty sure that's a good sign that I'm where I want to be at the moment. :)
Your dessert was so amazing and beautiful! Good job, well done, and all that stuff. I am definitely going to make that one.
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