Taxi for Wayne !

Now Wayne is someone in the kitchen learning the dark arts of kitchen craft. You can imagine that their is a lot of recipe information to take in and cooking techniques and skills to finely tune you to make you a lean mean kitchen fighting machine ! ha ha !
Well we all make mistakes and I have a few more to add to the berry compote disaster of a previous post but I will save them for another day.
In the meantime I will pick on someone else ! ha ha !
While Wayne was making a chocolate espresso  tart which if ever you want a really quick and simple chocolate indulgent dessert is dead easy to make,
Instead of making sweet pastry like we do at work just go to the supermarket and buy one of those pre-baked sweet tart cases then,
In a saucepan pour 330 mls of double cream, add 100gs of caster sugar and stir so the sugar does not burn on the bottom of the pan. Bring to the boil then remove from the heat.
Pour an expresso shot of coffee into the cream. If you don't have an expresso machine (????) just use a small shot of strong black coffee.
Add 450 grams of good quality dark chocolate (70% cocoa) pellets or grate chocolate bars into the still hot cream mix. Add a little at a time so it does not cool to rapidly preventing the chocolate from melting.
Add 50 grams of unsalted butter to the warm cream/coffee/chocolate mix to enrich the dish even more and to give it a lovely shine !
Pour the mix into your tart case then place it in the fridge overnight to set. We served it on the summer menu with a ginger powder, orange creme fraiche and whipped cream. Bloomin lovely.
However you could do what Wayne did and in a creative culinary tantrum drop it on the floor !

Ouch !

I know when your learning to make things in the kitchen and someone suddenly switches a light bulb on in your head and makes a recipe or a technique clearer its so satisfying you feel that you have learned something that not everyone can do. And then to drop it on the floor when you have done the hard work..well sometimes you could cry ! ha ha !
Wayne is bullet proof and did not take the easy taxi ride home and give up.
He did say " do you think I can stick it together Super Big K ? " (his nickname for me ! ) as I had been in this position myself at various times in my career and knew exactly what to do I replied in an almost fatherly way,
"No Wayne best put this prototype in the bin before the Head Chef sees it and start again !"