Day thirty-four: The culinary student versus the pork
Today is the second to last day in pork week. Meaning it is my second to last chance to taste pork. So far, I manged to avoid it during the pork demonstration, avoid it when we made pork medallions, and avoid it when we stuffed that pork chop until it was bulging most grotesquely. And [...]
Day thirty-three: Pork
Okay. You all know I struggle with pork. Mightily. And don’t tell any of the chef’s, but I have yet to taste it. Which is a tremendous sin in culinary school akin only to not using enough salt. But I’m cookin’ it. Oh yes.
Day thirty-two: Wanna see my notebook?
I’ve been writing about going to culinary school, but never showing you my writing about culinary school. Erm, I am referring to my sketches and notes. Wanna peek?
Day thirty-one: The kid
I want to tell you a story about a fellow student. Kid Courageous is young … all of twenty years old. He is from a small town and is a small town boy. He worked in one of the nicer chains (Olive Garden or something along those lines) and I suspect that is what he [...]
Day thirty: The world’s most perfect mac ‘n cheese
Good news, it is the end of the two-week long chicken week. Yeah, sure, we’ll revisit chicken now and then. Probably a lot. But the chicken week (which actually lasted two-weeks) blitz is over. Finally. But the fun never ends at culinary school. Not by a long shot.
Day twenty-nine: The perfect pasta recipe (and, no, you don’t need a machine)
Is culinary school going fast? You better believe it. So fast, we are almost at the end of the first term. So fast, it is almost scary. But what’s not scary is that we are also nearing the end of chicken week (which is actually two-weeks long, but chicken two-weeks just doesn’t have the same [...]
Day … erm, what the culinary student really does on the weekend
Ever wondered what the life of the young and carefree (middle age and busy) culinary student is really like? Let me tell you all about it.
Day twenty-seven: Hello kitty!
Sorry, don’t know where Hello Kitty! is from (somewhere in Asia, say China? Japan? Korea?)? But let’s adopt Hello Kitty! for the theme for today’s post, anyway. So, to start, let’s look at some food, complete with recipes and some great cooking tips, that come from the same part of the world as Hello Kitty! [...]
Day twenty-six: Where have all the students gone?
We are halfway through this term and down to five students. What happened to them all? Well, that’s the question, isn’t it?
Day twenty-five: I’ve eaten a frog
This was a day of ch … ch … ch … changes. And the frog was the least of it. (By the way, I’ve got the world’s cutest food joke at the end of this post. Another student told it and I just roared.)
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