Monday, July 20, 2009
So....much....chocolate
So this weekend was truffle weekend. Literally.
My flight back from New York was cancelled / bumped on Friday, so rather than getting out of Newark at 7, it was more like 9:30. By the time I got home, it was after 11, the perfect time to start making chocolate! Got to bed around 12:30 with the first batch of ganache cooling in the fridge.
Saturday I got 2 batches done, and worked more or less straight from 10am (when I got back from another failed mission to the library to get free museum passes...got there 15 minutes before they opened and was already 32nd in line!?) to 11:30pm.
Sunday was two more batches, 10am -> 12:30. Laura's sister was a big help boxing up the chocolates.
The sad part? there's 97 people coming to the wedding, and a few of the batches only made about 90-93 truffles. Oops : ( (especially when most of the truffles were pretty big and could easily have been smaller).
Anyways, I'm DONE with truffles! And frankly, I think they look pretty darned good!
My flight back from New York was cancelled / bumped on Friday, so rather than getting out of Newark at 7, it was more like 9:30. By the time I got home, it was after 11, the perfect time to start making chocolate! Got to bed around 12:30 with the first batch of ganache cooling in the fridge.
Saturday I got 2 batches done, and worked more or less straight from 10am (when I got back from another failed mission to the library to get free museum passes...got there 15 minutes before they opened and was already 32nd in line!?) to 11:30pm.
Sunday was two more batches, 10am -> 12:30. Laura's sister was a big help boxing up the chocolates.
The sad part? there's 97 people coming to the wedding, and a few of the batches only made about 90-93 truffles. Oops : ( (especially when most of the truffles were pretty big and could easily have been smaller).
Anyways, I'm DONE with truffles! And frankly, I think they look pretty darned good!
# posted by Greg @ 4:17 AM 
