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I have used the Weck jars for water bath canning. They work fine and they make such pretty jars.

Looks like a huge event! Any idea how many eggs there are?

Cooked up some chicken thighs for tacos. Used the Ultra short-cut ingredients version of this recipe https://www.dadcooksdinner.com/pressure-cooker-chicken-tacos-tinga-de-pollo/ with Trader Joe's Salsa Authentica. Made a very nice dinner with leftovers for lunch tomorrow.

And a few picture from the workshop...

A selection of photos from our Friday afternoon demo at Jean-Marie Auboine. This is also the site of our Saturday & Sunday workshop. Airbrushing moulds Pear Pâte de Fruit hazelnut caramel school / teaching kitchen

A selection of photos from our demo & tasting at Atelier Melissa Coppel on Friday, 19 May. What a gorgeous place to work & learn! A selection of Cacao Barry chocolates for us to sample: Demo of some chocolate mold decorations On to the tasting! The welcome area The spray booth The enrobing line & cooling tunnel. Those bags contained goodies/swag for the eGulleter's who attended Melissa's demo. And more equipment, panner & a few Selmi tempering units! .

Your breakfast sounds yummy. I love the design on the rim of the plate. What is it he image under the quiche?

Jin dipped the leaf stamp into a container with two colors of chocolate & then stamped.

@Smithy most of the decorations that Jin demonstrated for us will be used on various desserts in the Vegas hotels... there are so many hotels & dessert buffets. As for the spirals with alternating strips of chocolate and clear, those are multiple chocolate decorations... the pastry chef will most likely use one chocolate spiral for each dessert.

Photos from Jin's demo at her production kitchen. Jin concentrated on decor since she knew our demo with Melissa Coppel would include airbrushing and bon bon decorations. The entrance all those lovely marble tables & equipment some melters & and the assistants (there were two assistants working on items & helping Jin they day we visited) demo of making various custom transfer sheets making various chocolate cigarettes -- Jin discussed various color & flavor combinations & let us try to make some -- she makes it look so easy! marbling chocolate other decor pieces interesting & fast way to make leaves -- made a cardboard template to stamp these out and the amazing Jin (with @lebowits in the background)

@Shelby those chocolate covered gummy worms are just too cute! :-)

A few photos from the silk screen process & a shot of our most successful print.

I apologize, may be repeating some photos. Here are photos from Jin Ju's chocolate shop. Next batch of photos will be for @Smithy -- the Gully silk screen. Tomorrow (or sometime soon) I will post pictures from our demo with Jin. #JinJuchocoholic

I took a few photos of our Gully silk screen and transfer. Will post them this week.

We made a few chocolates & confections. Will post more photos after I get home.

Busy day today -- I'll share pictures from the beginning & the end. Hopefully some folks will share photos from the rest of the day's adventures. A donut sampling there were two or three more boxes. Quite tasty! Kerry gave a talk about the silk screening process. This is our custom silk screen that we are going to use to make transfer sheets. 10 or so partcipants enjoyed dinner at Bouchon. These photos are from my table of five. Deviled eggs Salad with goat cheese Seared foie gras Onion soup Chicken Lobster risotto Trout Anyone surprised that we didn't order dessert? The dinner was wonderful. Great food & service.

Wonderful demo & tasting with the amazing Melissa Coppel.

A few of us returned to the Vietnamese restaurant (Pho Khin Do) for dinner. Enjoyed two appetizers -- which we forgot to photograph -- and remembered to take pictures after we started on our soups!

All set up & ready to go for Saturday morning kitchen time.

We visited Jin Ju's retail store for a bit of shopping & her production kitchen for a demonstration of chocolate decor. Jin is a wonderful instructor & makes beautiful chocolates. #JinJuchocoholic

Some of the early birds had dinner Wednesday evening at the scenic Mt. Charleston Lodge.

If you wouldn't mind sharing, what is the name of your niece's restaurant? Always nice to have another great restaurant to visit.

Sounds lovely but the workshop starts at 8:30am Saturday & Sunday.

Heading to Vegas soon for the eGullet chocolate & confections workshop! We already have reservations for a group dinner at Lotus of Siam. Any other places we should check out? I'm interested in quick & tasty breakfast spots... perhaps there are some local places with good breakfast burritos? Also hoping for lunch and dinner recommendations. Most of these of the more casual type but a few of us are staying a day or two extra and could go for more extravagant meals. Any good mixologist bars or tiki bars? We probably have the desserts covered but if there is anything new and innovative, please tell us about it. This will all be documented, with tons, of photos in the workshop report. (here is a link to our report from the 2014 event - also in Vegas)

Along with Grewling's book (that Kerry already mentioned), I recommend Ewald Notter's book The Art of the Chocolatier: From Classic Confections to Sensational Showpieces