A Culinary Interlude

It's Spring Break. Finally. YAY!Have I mentioned how SICK TO DEATH I am of attitudes? Of students being given extreme leeway on attendance, but others being hounded if they miss a class due to having an abcessed tooth pulled?I don't CARE if you live an entire county away. I don't give CRAP if yo...

Wow - 1/3 of the way through my final semester now. My purchasing class is going great. It will end at Spring Break (which is about a month away). I presented my project on Caviar last week and it went smashingly. Restaurant Management couldn't be any easier as it's just basically waiting tables...

Howdy! It's official - I can see the light at the end of the tunnel...I have now begun the final semester of culinary school. This semester I have the following classes: Food Purchasing, Beverage Management, Restaurant Management (front of the house), Garde Manger (this is a repeat since I withdr...

Wow - time really escaped me this semester. I only posted twice!It flew because I was as busy as a one-armed cheerleader! Four days a week in La Friandise - 3 of them in the kitchen, one in the FOH. And Fridays were Pastry classes with Sandor.Anyway - it's over and only one more to go. Next sem...

We had our first service in La Friandise today and it went very well. I was "Chef of the Day" - which means I got to go out with Chef Redd and introduce the banquet-style meal to the guests. And instead of working at one station, I got to help out EVERYONE. It was really cool - sort of like being an...

How nice to have a holiday in the 2nd week of class. Labor Day and the end of the summer tourist season has finally arrived in this beach town on the Redneck Riviera.All that happened this week was more cleaning, organizing, sorting, and stowing. We did make 6 huge pots of stock - both chicken &am...

It's here. The dreaded second year of Culinary school. I'm going to be as busy as a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest!Monday - Cuisines of the World - 7am to 2:30pmTuesday - Kitchen Management (back of the house) - 7am to 2:30pmWednesday - Banquet Management - 8:15 - 2:30pmThursday - Kitchen ...

Well - here it is - the end of the semester, finally.Halfway done.Finals are finished and summer is underway. The scope of my relief is beyond words.I don't return to school until August 25th. I will be taking Cuisines of the World, Kitchen Management, and Intro. to Business. More on that later. ...

Last Monday night I was on the Vegetable station in La Friandise. I made Baby Brussels sprouts with bacon & cream. To die for. I blanched them first and then shocked them in ice water. I cooked the bacon in the oven until done and then chopped it up. Then it was just a matter of sauteing the sp...