Food!

This is a repost from my other blog, but I thought it went along with my previous post. 

I never realized before how much I really LOVE food. I mean, I've always said that I do, and that I enjoy eating good food, but I'm realizing that my life just revolves around it. I've been a restaurant server, a pastry chef, and now a cook, and I just love creating good food. I read about food, I watch travel shows that center around food, I love experimenting with new recipes, I want to farm and grow nutritious food to share with people, I go crazy looking at all the gorgeous food at the farmers' market, and I take lots of pictures of food. I am passionate about food. 

So don't be surprised when many of my posts contain some food-related topic. 

Happy eating!

~ Hannah Elise ❤️

Three Weeks Later

It's been three weeks since I started as a full time cook, and they have been busy, but rewarding. I think the biggest change is being able to sleep through the night again, and not being tired all day. It's also nice actually having a life again, and being able to go out and do things. 

I ended my last month at the bakery by taking a mini vacation to a cabin at the coast with my boyfriend, for his birthday weekend. I think it was exactly what both of us needed to recharge and get away from the world for a bit. The weather was beautiful, and I thoroughly enjoyed being able to lose myself in my surroundings, not having to worry about anything. 

Since then, I've been keeping busy with work, family, friends, band practice, and the boyfriend, and even though I'm not certain about what the next step is, or positive about about I want to do in the long run, I'm pretty dang happy in the here-and-now, and I think that's the most important thing. Happiness. 

~ Hannah Elise ❤️

No Longer a Baker

I began writing this three weeks ago, but never got around to finishing it. 

May 28th

This morning marked my last day as a pastry chef. 

For the last year I have been going to work at 2am, spending my early mornings cutting and forming croissant dough into pastries and coming home smelling of bread, covered in flour.

I have gone from knowing nothing about pastry making and starting out as an assistant, learning as I went, to head pastry chef, with my own assistants. 

This last year has been amazing. I have learned so much, and made some great friends, I even was able to mark something off of my bucket list, and I'm grateful for the opportunity being presented to me.

 However, now I must move on. My children need me to be around (and awake) more, which means I need to be working a job with more normal hours. Luckily for me, the restaurant that I used to be a server at just happened to have a breakfast cook position a month or so ago, which I had taken on for a little extra money, and was working at after my job at the bakery on the weekends. Shortly after that they lost another cook, and so began my month long crazy schedule of working part time at the restaurant four days a week, after my shift at the bakery ended, so that I could train as I prepared to transfer back to the restaurant full time. 

And now I have completed my last day as a baker. Today was bittersweet, but I am looking forward to this next chapter. 

~ Hannah Elise ❤️