Food and Wine Festival

I have pix from the local food and wine festival, but I lack the time to upload them. Picking up a third class--jams and jellies--starting tomorrow and I have yet to write the syllabus. Spent hours last night and today putting together product orders for the class for next week. Yes, I knew about the class months and months ago. And, yes, I am the Queen Procrastinator.

The Festival is always so nuts for me. And every year I try to add on more responsibilities. . . for what reason, I know not. This year the week of the fest was nuts: I had to keep the restaurant in product, prep a dessert for 70 people for our dine around dinner (the avuncular and extremely kind Kevin Rathbun was our guest chef), prep the Bubbles and Sweets event dessert, proctor and grade back-to-back practicals on Thursday for my baking classes, demo milk chocolate mousse lollipops at the festival for the awesome ladies at Charleston Magazine, and host Francois Payard while he prepped his desserts and demo at our restaurant.

What would I have done without Patty Cakes? Cried and run away, probably.

Well, there is more to write, but now I need to get a little work done so that I can get to that syllabus. As long as I can get it squared away by 7 AM in the morning, I should be golden. Oh, and then I need to type up some recipes, too. Okay, better hit the mixer.