miss you all and waiting to meet soon!!!

How is everybody?

I am stuck working and since 2 years no holiday at all till 3 days ago when I went kitesurfing....

Love u all and here some photos of me&my partner and some dishes :)

Henna-Inspired Wedding Cake

Here is the wedding cake that I did for my sister's friends Annabelle and Darrin. The top is a henna-inspired pattern that Darrin designed (and you guys know how I love henna patterns!) and the bottom side says "Eternal Dance of Joy" in Sanskrit (again, Darrin-inspired). It was a hazelnut cake with chocolate ganache filling and Frangelico buttercream.

Back Home

Hello my dearests!!!

First blog since came back from NYC. It has been 5 months since I am back unbelievable. Since I came I have been working with some firms who are doing the pastries for like Starbucks and some airlines and some other big companies. And besides that I did some caterings with friends and some holiday presents for some firms... It was and is ok... I am now being hired as product developer for a firm doing cookies and pastries and they want me to come up with different stuff they they can market. I have been baking and teaching and also most of my time was spent farming...Apples,plums,raspberries,artichokes,cucumbers,tomatoes,chestnuts,hazelnutquinces,persimmon etc...turning them into cookies and cupcakes and breads sometimes...I am looking for a small place that I can afford to buy and build my own small bakeshop. But it takes time to find the place that also suits your pocket... Other than that I miss you and it was so nice to see Haley's post about all the incredible cute and beautiful things she did. Haley after that post I wanted to do some royal icing and do some cookies just like you did but mine were ugly hehehe. Ok girls lets hear from Chez Panisse and the genes and about the moving back of syl and Ifaaaaaaaaaat give us something, anything!!!!!!





Love u all..



And I leave you with some pictures from the bosphorus from my morning walk...

i heart the holidays & my new job :)

Hey ladies! I just thought I'd share some of the things I've been doing at work this holiday season!

Im working at an adorable small bakery called Batter Bakery in San Francisco. We bake out of a communal kitchen we share with a few other chefs, an art gallery, cafe, and a pop-up restaurant on the weekends, Saison. We also have a retail kiosk in the financial district.

We were working almost non-stop all last week and I'm sure we made over a thousand holiday shortbread cookies- it was crazy!

Hope you all have a wonderful holiday season- and for those of you in far away places, SF is still calling your names ;)

love & miss!

I'm still baking...

So even though the lab is keeping me busy these days I am still finding time to bake! I recently did a wedding cake for some friends of David. They got cupcakes from another caterer but had me do a small cake so they'd have something to cut. Their cake toppers were wooden figures of a deer and a donkey, and they wanted the cake decorated like a meadow in which the deer and donkey were standing.

New York!

Hello sweet ladies! Here are some pictures of my trip to New York. It was so fun to see Sylvia and Z (and John too of course). My culinary highlights were:

1) The compost cookie at Milk. It was full of pretzels, potato chips, butterscotch chips, and I don't know what else but it was good. It inspired me to make some random cookies of my own so today I made a chocolate cookie filled with 2 kinds of chocolate chips, chocolate-covered almonds, and crushed up italian cookies, a vanilla cookie filled with candied pineapple, coconut, corn flakes, and milk chocolate chips, and another vanilla cookie filled with sesame crackers and chocolate chips. They sound a bit strange but were actually really good!

2) Treats from the Japanese pastry shop Minamoto Kichoan. It is near Rockefeller Center and if you haven't been yet, definitely check it out. It is immaculate.

3) Cupcakes from Sweet Revenge. To be honest, they were too sweet for me. The name is true...the spirits of all the sweets I've eaten were taking revenge on me when I ate these cupcakes because I felt sick afterwards. I loved the papers they used though (see picture).

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009!!!

Girls, let's make a conscious effort to keep this blog alive. I recently visited and each posting made me smile. I LOVE keeping in touch with you and learning what you are all up to. I know we've come a long way since we've graduated, and I am so very proud of all of us. Chez Panisse, Zuni, Kara's Cupcakes, Amy's Breads - we've made it girls! How many people in our class can say they had such a solid group of friends and peers??? I was so fortunate to stage with Patricia and Megan before I left for Chicago. I know Hot Chocolate didn't work out, but I'm looking for my next challenge and adventure. Some pictures from 2008...

Syl, Megan, & Haley outside Bocadillos for tapas, then...

Rubicon for dessert (Honey Cake w/ Blue Cheese (right???)
Farallon's Famous Summer Berry Pudding














Michael Mina's Dessert Trio & Chocolate Cake

Haley & I enjoying Zuni's famous Chicken for Two

Slow Food, SF 2008















Persimmon Cake on a pillow of baking spices @ Alinea, Chicago