Hi there,
My name is Madison Baumbach and I am in my second year of Office Administration Executive Program.
During my free time, I love to cook and bake. I get the love of baking/cooking from my nana who was a chef for most of her years at the Walker House in Southampton, ON. She worked hard to provide for her 8 children with cooking and cleaning at the house and then walking to work to cook and clean there. While working there she had trained my boss/Chef Bill at the Elk & Finch when he was a young boy, first week was teaching him her swear words, and then second week she said she taught him how to cook.
Years later when I started dishwashing at The Elk n Finch I would go on to learn some of the familiar words she had taught Bill, and some of his cooking techniques learnt from my nana.
Through my years working with bill, I would learn some of his signature dishes, and also working with my nana I would get taught how to roll out her pastry dough for her famous butter tarts to the perfect thickness, and how to perfect her Christmas trays she would make up (Pictured above a whole bunch of chocolate macaroons).
Although my nana is now going on 83 years old, I am so glad she had taught Bill her cooking techniques and she had taught me some of her baking tips.
Here is the link to my favorite restaurant in Southampton called The Elk & Finch. (http://www.elkandfinch.com/)
Through these blog posts I will show some of my favorite recipes and my food pics I have taken over the years.
Madison Baumbach 