Posts by Dominique

white flour will do fine at room temperature and not really start losing its nutritional value for several months. I keep my whole wheat flour in the walk-in as it is much higher in oil content and I don't use it fast enough that I...

I rarely have make up on when I go to work-- when I was younger I did my make up every morning before work, but once I hit my 30's, I just didn't care so much. I do use a sunscreen facial moisterizer every day though. Once in a while...

I guess it would depend on the recipe, but I work in a tiny restaurant and have almost no walk-in space, but they could spare me lots of freezer space so I freeze my extra icing every night. Seems fine as long as I don't try to heat it...

I've been doing a lot of vegan cooking lately and not had too much trouble with substituting butter with margarine.. just be sure to check the trans-fat levels.. the harder the margarine at room temp, the worse it is for you.. I've...

That is just gorgeous! :)

I wouldn't assume the hotel pays more. Definitely give the bakery a chance. As far as where you'd learn more, I would usually lean towards a hotel if they have an actual pastry shop and staff.. but if they're pulling a lot of stuff out...

So after 20+ years of pastries, I'm doing something new and working in a vegan restaurant. I've been there for about 6 months, and learning a lot about baking without dairy, without eggs, etc.... pretty cool, actually. But there is...

I think it depends on what part of the country you're job searching in as to how the job market is? Same with pay scale. As a grad, many people come out of school expecting to make a lot of money and are pretty disheartened when they...

I've had good luck with cream cheese icing being easy to work with and piping-friendly by basically making a buttercream and adding enough lemon juice and cream cheese to make it taste like a cream cheese icing. I'm currently in a...

I did a bananas foster action station once for about 500. We had one person cutting bananas, one person scooping ice cream, and two people flambe-ing on propane burners. We had the butter and brown sugar melted together in soup...