Heavy sigh tonight as I finish up my 13 week boot camp at the local culinary school. It has been an amazing ride in oh so many ways. In fact, it completely changed my life.
I will be handing in my resignation at work and be unemployed as of the end of June. In September I will begin my formal chef's training!! I can't wait to begin...in the meanwhile I am going to attempt to start up a catering company with the time I will have free once I'm done with my computer gig!
We got to flambe tonight which was totally fun, and nobody got burned, the school is still standing...and desert was delicious. We did bananas, plantains, mangoes in a butter honey sauce and flamed it with orange brandy...delicious. We learned how to make crepes...not for the faint of heart. It is much harder than I thought it would be and I have to say my crepes did not turn out as I hoped they would. This is something I will have to practise at home. We practised flipping them with our fingers...HOT. We also had to grill pineapple. I didn't think I liked pineapple, but turns out fresh pineapple is wonderful. Grilling is the way to go.
We then had to plate the food in a professional manner. I tried really hard, but the chef didn't like that I did a chiffonade on my mint rather than using the whole leaf. I really think this is an area in which I need a lot of work. I'm not a particularly visual person. I can tell when I find something beautiful, but to create it out of my head it very difficult. Eh, in the end I ate my mistakes and they tasted pretty good!!!
I will really miss going to class on Wednesdays, and in particular I will miss all of the great people that I met and cooked with over the last 13 weeks. Wonderful people, not a dud in the bunch. I kind of hope that I will see them again in some context...hopefully having dinner in my restaurant.
So, now I will have to practise practise practise until Chef school begins in September.
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