Fall Quarter = BUSY BUSY BUSY!!!

This quarter of school is extremely busy. I'm taking 2 lab classes: Garde Manger & Baking. Garde Manger is also known as "cold kitchen." We make all types of salads (tuna, chicken, greek, chef etc), sausage, any kinda of appetizer you can think of basically that doesn't require cooking. It's pretty awesome. My chef instructor in this class is so silly and i feel like i can totally joke around with him. My baking class is also amazing. The chef instructor is strict but also jokes around. He's into the science of food and he's big into culinary math, which i like because i'm a big math person too. He suggested a book for me to read so i'll have to check it out...when i have extra time of course...ugh what's free time haha? I'm also taking a "classroom" class called Management by Menu. In this class we basically get to lay out our plan if we were to open up a restaurant. It's a great class because once we're done and if that is the path you choose to go down, you could absolutely just walk into a bank and be like i need a loan for this and just hand over ur plan. I'm not sure that's the route i want to go but the whole management of a restaurant might be something i'm interested in. I've always been the one to be bossed around so obviously the thought of me bossing someone around and having people do things my way just sounds amazing but we'll see...let's not get ahead of ourselves just yet haha....

now for the good stuff....pictures!



Here we have just a simple salad. We thinly sliced carrots lengthwise and marinated them in the dressing so they'd hold that ring shape. We made some tomato petals, and that wonderful cheese crisp you see..it was quite tricky, because we got little explanation on the procedure haha. The dressing is an emulsified vinaigrette and the darker garnish dressing is just a balsalmic vinegar reduction. So the point of this class is to take cheap ingredients and turn them into this wonderfully looking expensive salad. CHA CHING!

Belgian Endive Salad. We had to taste several different types of lettuce and let me tell ya this was my least favorite. So bitter and just yuck! you have to have a great dressing to go along with this one for sure. Needless to say i didn't taste this salad but it looks pretty haha.

Here's the yummy banana nut bread we made in the first day of baking. It was great. I'm in awe of all the amazing equipment in this kitchen. The huge oven, the stacked ovens, the proof box, and i just love the wood work tables. I think wood makes me feel more at home. The only bad thing is the way you have to clean it but ehh i can overlook that.

Well that's all the pictures I took during week 1. Week 2 is over but i can only do a little at a time. I'm practically a zombie monday thru wednesday but I'll try to be a little better about updating.... : D