Things that make you go hmmmm!

Funny thing about culinary arts is that when you enroll your all like “Gordon Ramsey eat your heart out buddy -there is a new Chef in town!” As a student you get to wear the chefs hat and coat and spend your time cooking…Am I right? So last class discussion, first thing out of Chefs

A bit over my head?!?

Well Miss glass half full took a sebaticle and Mrs what am I doing showed up. I have never poached anything really. I have boiled chicken for salad and that’s the extent of it. Rubbery chicken salad that had no real zest or flavor. So, week 8 of school is – you guessed it poaching.

Ooo LaLa

Let me start off by mentioning, this hearty and delicious soup is easily one of my all time favorite dishes! This weeks assigment was to create a perfect brown stock and FRENCH ONION SOUP! Just a quick history lesson on this heart warming dish. The modern version of koi soup originates in Paris, France in the 18th

An old dog CAN learn new tricks!

Boy oh boy, I never thought I would revisit the metric system. Here I am doing just that!! YIKES! Years ago, I remember when the conversion process was a part of our school syllabus. Needless to say it really wasn’t successful. Imagine my surprise I found out that was part if my Culinary adventure. An

It is already dead!

If i haven’t mentioned it, I am in week 6 at Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts. Needless to say we are in the basic phase. … how to hold a knife, basics in roasting and chicken fabrication. I had a totally different idea what “chicken fabrication” meant and it’s not at all what it

BBQ vs Grilling

Happy fishing opener. The family is out casting a line praying for the “big catch”. What we have caught is a total satisfyingly filling lunch. Nothing spectacular but needless to say great (and so far the only) catch of the day…brats on the grill. My grandson did catch a little sunny and he was ecstatic.

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