T-Minus 10 Hours

I just worked the last Tuesday of my Culinary Externship at The Grain House. This also means the last day working with Jeanine, she'll be missed. In fact, today we made what was supposed to be an upgrade to our Lime Pies we made last week, however, not everything went according to plan. We started mixing everything together they same way we had did last week, we used the same mini-pie pans they use for their Grain House Pies (which is really mini pecan pies). Everything was the same but we added min leaves to the mix. (This is not where it went wrong though, the pies themselves tasted fantastic). The problem ended up being trying to get them out... for some reason, today they just wanted to stick to the edges of the little pie pans, but slid off perfectly from the disk on the bottom (opposite of what happened last week but the bottom is a lot easier to get off with a spatula since it's flat as compared to the wavy edges of the mini pie pans). This was insanely frustrating and to add insult to injury Chef Leffler happened by as we were literally cutting the pies around the edges to attempt to get them out with as little disaster as possible. What we ended up doing was cutting them rounded completely removing the edges so that it was a rounded disk. This wasn't all that bad, would have looked a LOT better had the crust popped out as it did last week, but, I learned a lot from having to work with what I had regardless of how it was (or wasn't in this matter) working. All-in-all we got them presentable enough to serve, we did very small rum-whipped cream stars on the top covering it, similar to last weeks but the stars were about 1/2 the size, and shaved lime zest over the top and accented it with a mint leaf. We dubbed them, Mojito Pies. Aside from making the pies, it was an average day at The Grain House Mirepoix and all. Though I've learned a lot from working there, I'm excited to have my externship come to an end, not that I mind the work, but I can more work on things like moving into my condo and planning my wedding.