Call me Chef Shelley!

Hi my friends.

So today was back to normal day. Well, this morning I had Hospitality Accounting. I will let you imagine how that went. Accounting 201 from MSU again. Thankfully I took that!!

Then I came home, worked out. Felt great, and then explored Florence trying to find a new grocery store and a straightener. Yes I caved- its either I chop my hair off or buy a stupid straightener. I have been growing my hair out for too long to cut it now. L I miss my lovely Chi and my curling iron L

Then I had baking class J OMG please check out the latest fb photos. I feel like I need to work out again. I ate more butter in one sitting than I probably do in a week. Today we made three things with different types of toppings. Creamy toppings, soooo not my cup of tea considering creamy stuff like yogurt makes me queezy. But others made this thing with chesnut flour and pine nuts, raisins, and rosemary. Weird mix and didn’t taste too good. I tried the topping on it made with ricotta, brown sugar, and white chocolate which made it a little better. Not something I would probably try at home. Same with the other thing that was a bread cake made with raisins too. Was not very flavorful either and then the topping was made with a base of wine.. skipped that.

HOWEVER……………. Valerie and I made yes, something I would make at home once again. She told me it was going to be good and apparently it is one of the oldest Italian baked goods. I don’t know the spelling for what it was but OMG it was to die for. I literally ate so much dough and then ate like half of one of the 2 cakes. I felt disgusting and def. called that my dinner. But omg it was so good J I tried to run my steps up to my apartment to make myself feel a little better……haha! I need protein, like I said on facebook-- anyone who wants to send me a huge thing of bbq pork with a whole thing of kc masterpiece bbq sauce…… I will love you forever. But all this cake was------ was sugar, flour, almond flour, egg yolk, lemon zest, vinegar, vanilla, and a ton of butter. It was soooooo good. And then the topping was mascarpone cheese, coffee grounds, and sugar basically but I didn’t try too much of that. So another successful week in baking. My good friend Paula Deen would have been proud.

Anyways….. now I am actually going to do homework for once besides my Italian homework.

I am pretty excited for this weekend that is for sure…….. and I am super excited about Spring Break. Had a nice catch up skype sesh with Tricia yesterday who is in London! Soooo I cannot wait to spend my long spring break with Tricia and Nikki! J

Trying to think of what I cut out from yesterday……. Oh yes, still working on the internship for the summer ordeal and hating it. Being this far away is so not helping!

But whatevs!

Well I hope everyone is doing swell in good ol’ America. Hopefully the weather is starting to shape up for everyone!