Pretend

I've been pretending to sleep for the past two days.  Thought this song might be appropriate.  Last night I "pretended" to sleep while my next door neighbor drunkenly sang the same song loudly from 3am to 5am.  Tonight I got to pretend again.  Candler Park, my neighborhood park, celebrated midsummer with a music festival.  The music stopped at 11- but my alarm clock goes off in 30 minutes.  Why pretend at this point?

The past few days have been long and exciting.  We're all rushing around getting ready for TBS on Monday and an event for wedding planners on Tuesday - and, of course, bakery sunday.

Learned how to make the Brooklyn ganache - whipped malted milk/white chocolate heaven ganache - and learned about the importance of a good kitchen-aid mixer.

Taria was gifted her mixer 22 years ago - and has been using the same one ever since!  It's a crayola green 5qt. mixer that her grandmother gave her.  It carries meaning and purpose...and I really want one!

Hint hint Mom and Dad.  What an investment!  I'll use it forever!

Made more lollis today and enrobed my little heart out.  I've been forcing myself to re-temper chocolate.  I have a tendency to let it get too thick and then compromise the end product.  If I make myself re-temper at the first few signs, I save good chocolate from being ruined by my avoidance of starting the process over.

More later.  Time to get up.

Look forward to pictures of bakery sunday prep.

WooHoo.

I'm really terrible without sleep.