Charmaine's Pastry Blog
http://charmainepastry.blogspot.com/
Lindsay's Description:
Charmaine started out her professional career as an ophthalmologist, but decided to give it up to become a pastry chef. At Charmaine's Pastry Blog she chronicles her fascinating journey from the very beginning. Talking about her work experience as she studied her new craft, Charmiane provides a detailed insight into life in a professional pastry kitchen. More recently Charmaine shares her gorgeous cake designs all adding up to make this an individual, interesting and inspirational blog to visit.
Charmaine's Description:
Having switched professions from ophthalmology to pastry, I hope this new chapter in life will be filled with joy, pride, creativity and success. This is my story!
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Recent Updates at Charmaine's Pastry Blog
Crowning glory
14 October 2011
I have only 45 minutes to complete this blog post as my life is now measured in brief spans of uninterrupted time. B is supposed to be down for her second nap of the day and will only give me 45 minutes on a typical day. That is how I made Cade's birthday cake, in many micro-stages of work ...
The bun in my oven
18 July 2011
I've missed you. But I have a good reason why this blog has been dormant since December. A little bun was in my oven and the oven decided to start overheating at 19 weeks, you could say. And so, I was off my feet since January, out of the kitchen entirely to avoid strenuous activity as well as ...
Framed
06 December 2010
During my years in medical school, our Associate Dean of Undergraduate Medicine was Dr. Andrew Seal, a general surgeon by trade who is considered by many to be quite a Renaissance man, with diverse interests ranging from the history of medicine to music and to painting. In fact, if you lurk around ...
Still here
30 November 2010
Although it has been eons since my last post, I am still alive but have been greatly distracted by some personal matters during the last few months. My poor little blog has suffered from negligence but alas, an infusion of some creative juice will hopefully rescue it from complete dissolution. Let ...
Collaboration
13 September 2010
Back in July, during pleasant dinner conversation with my friend Chris, the seeds were sown for this special 60th birthday cake for his mum, Margaret. Apparently, Chris has unique gustatory abilities and had been dreaming up cake flavour combinations in his spare time. Pairing vanilla and black ...
Expectations
06 September 2010
When it comes to cake design, there are some situations which give me more stress than others. The perfect cake request for me is from someone who knows me well, gives me specific thematic elements as inspiration, and then trusts me completely in the ultimate creative process. Of course, this ...
When life gives you apricots...
23 August 2010
On a recent trip to Kelowna, my main focus was not on wine, but rather on the bountiful fruit which the Okanagan Valley offers. We brought home almost 20 pounds of cherries and more importantly, 10 pounds of apricots. They were the most perfect apricots, found at Gatzke Farm Market in Oyama, on a ...
Coiffed
04 August 2010
I have only had one haircut in my life when I went home and cried. It was in high school, during my short-hair perming years, when the nape of my neck was shaved into the shape of a V. Being much too edgy for my taste, I immediately got my mom to buzz off the point and make a nice straight line ...
The doors
28 July 2010
In Grade 4, I watched Poltergeist at a birthday party and could not sleep for three nights, convinced that trees and clowns would attack me. What followed was a solid avoidance of scary movies (as well as TV commercials for scary movies) for many years, until it became my spousal obligation to ...
All aboard
13 July 2010
I seem to learn new things every time someone asks me to make a cake. The world of children's television is a mystery to me but with my introduction to the PBS show Dinosaur Train, I can see why kids these days are so enthralled with such captivating edutainment. Except for Sesame Street and ...
