I categorized this as “In the Kitchen” which is sort of “In the Kitchen with Meg” but it wasn’t in my kitchen and I wasn’t the mastermind behind this sweet project. Mayumi invited me to a baking class at the ABC cooking school last Monday. It was great - mostly in Japanese but she helped me so I learned a lot.
The class setup there is awesome. A big open space with many workstations. The workstations are for groups of no more than 5 I think, plus a teacher. You work together on a recipe and each person gets their share to eat afterwards, or take home. The great thing is that the classes are easy as ABC, but you still learn a lot. Or at least I did. I love baking and considering myself good at it but I sort of just throw things together. I think most of my recipes don’t involve too much science or technicalities.
We made chiffon cakes:


and they were quite yummy but there are a few key points to make them well. There is a certain timing you need when beating the egg whites, you should use vegetable oil and not butter, when you mix your beated egg whites into the batter you shouldn’t get all DJ on it but rather “cut” the whites into the batter, and so on.
In a few weekends we will go back for a special event class on making a Japanese confectionary. Sweet! Literally!
It is Friday evening and the 8pm music just started. Tomorrow is a me day. I have cleaning, Japanese, work, and a bit of relaxing to catch up on. On Sunday I am getting my hair cut…a little nervous!! Afterwards I will go to a concert put on by the NTT orchestra. A friend at work plays cello in it and she gave me a ticket. I can’t remember what they are playing offhand, but it is a Brahms symphony. After that, I think I will try to find a cozy spot somewhere in a cafe to sit down and write…something. I don’t know what yet. Probably many things cause lately I’ve had the attention span of a goldfish and I need like 50 windows open on my computer at a time to keep me productive. In fact I don’t even know what I am writing right now. Every three words I forget where I am so this is just an output of random strings of events being fired in my head. No…I dunno…should go home soon.
Have a good weekend : )