Fat Antoinette

I've decided to make this a report into my latest project..FRENCH PASTRY!

I went out just before and brought 'The Art of French Baking.' I then rode down to the store and brought lots of Butter. I'm currently standing in the kitchen waiting for my first attempt of Puff Pastry to start working out. So far not so great..I think me and butter may not get along which won't work out if I'm to do FRENCH cooking.
Change that I just went and did my second roll (apparantly I'm to do 6+ every 15 minutes to makes it amazing) and it's getting better.

So why the sudden pastry cooking? Well ever since I returned from Melbourne and spend what felt like a life time at Mum and Dad's I started loving making a proper feast..my last night there I even did a 3 course meal! Perhaps I'm getting old, perhaps I secretly want to get fat but I think it's Fan (sister) who made me get excited about cooking/ baking she is the eptiome of a modern 50's housewife (though she isn't one actually).

But as for my new craze well it's as simple as sitting in a laundromat on a Monday afternoon flicking through the magazines on the bench and seeing how many brave and ambitious people have set out and opened their own business..which they are so passion about...So I have skipped from pastry making to busininess but truth is at that laundromat I decided I was going to open up my very own French Pastry store in Perth...Fat Antoinette.

So this is where it brings us back to my first attempt of making something out of it...Apple Turnover. I'm going to keep doing regular updates and hopefully will be able to see my progress, but Julie Powell I am not....I'm using a wine bottle as a rolling pin but I am doing my own quirky version of a French challenge.

Wish me luck!