just another manic monday...

One Pastry Chef + Four Femmes + Five Test Recipes + One Home Kitchen =

Chaos.

The venerable pastry chef, Pichet Ong, (formerly of Spice Market and P*Ong, and now, The Village Tart and Spot Dessert Bar) brought along five recipes for us home cooks to try out.

The BFF, on the left in orange, hosted the shindig.
We're all smiles here, but I think we felt a little under the gun—

"Is the cookie dough ready?"
"Are the walnuts toasted?"
"Did you start the zucchini cake?"
"Have you chopped the chocolate?"

And that was just the first 30 seconds.

A requisite of a chef, besides great taste, vision and creativity, is the ability to remember of dozens of details, all at once. Pichet managed to keep track of us AND play fifteen rounds of Scrabble. 

The following recipes- still in development- will be included in his next cookbook.