Considering a return to school.

Culinary school is stupid expensive. It's really interesting I had a lot of fun and did enjoy it but I left. I left school almost 2 years ago. I left for financial reasons as well. They wanted way too much money for me to get a job in a profession that wouldn't pay for the education. It's bad when you hear about that, it's worse when your instructors tell you that on a daily basis. It's not okay to think about how much in debt you will be for a job that will destroy your body faster than other jobs. However I'm thinking about returning. Only this time I want to go for baking. Baking makes me really happy. I find it to be like math. I suck at math I'm really bad at it, I was in special classes and have a learning disability in math but when you get it right that one hard problem that you stare at for 5 minutes, well there are few things sweeter. I'm better at baking then math. I'd like to get better. One day I would like to own my own bakery.
My SO is applying for a job in Chicago. If they would pay him enough we would take the cat and move there. I'm not dumb enough to try to open a bakery in Chicago the competition is far too intense. Plus I'm of the idea the more simple the better and the artisans of Chicago are of the idea the more the better. Regardless I've never been there so I would need to go and see for myself. However first things first I need to apply for culinary school. I need to get some type of formal training before I do anything so adventurous as try to open my own bakery.  I think I would enjoy school. I'm actually fairly positive I would. However I have already been to college three times, I have zero degrees and just a serv safe certificate to show for it.  

Do I really want to do this again?

By the way I created a twitter account today. You can follow me @DomesticDeviant

I mentioned Hard Cider once.

First I'd like to start off with Happy New Year. Second I'd like to say this isn't supposed to be a blog about apples it just kind of happens I cook a lot with apples. Which is funny because apples aren't even close to my favorite fruit. Anyway I had mentioned hard cider in a previous post and thought I should let you all know how that went.

We bought regular cider in the apple stores because we didn't have the right equipment to make our own. The cider was very tasty however at some point in our brewing process it became very dry. Many people claim to like it. While I wouldn't be surprised if they were lying to my face I'm glad they do. However it's not so much hard cider as it is apple wine. We also never tested to check the alcohol content so I have no clue how strong it was. I think we will try again next year but as for this year I'm going to put cider down  ad a not so big success.

I should mention that my S.O. brews A LOT of beer at home.

Over the holidays I was given a lot of exciting cook books. I'm very interested in whoopie pies ever since I made some back in October. One of the books I got was on whoopie pies and I have to say they are quite good, Also I was shocked to learn that whoopie pies originate from north of the Dixie line I only find this shocking because saying the word whoopie pie brings out my southern drawl like nothing else.