It's, Friday!

I forgot to post this in Thursdays post. But at 9:15 PM at the Admissions building they had a Duck Prosciutto tasting. And if you don't know what that is, then let me tell you! It is a home-cured duck meat. Very similar to jerky, but with duck. And you can choose your own spices to cure them with. 

But now back to Friday:)

So, Thursday and Friday are the days I have Culinary Fundamentals. And that means I only have 2 kitchen classes a week.. Which sucks, but later I will have all kitchen classes!! 

In class we learned about Glace and Broth. 

A glace (Pronounced: gloss) is a reduction of a stock. You reduce a large amount of stock to only about 2 ounces. As you reduce the stock it becomes darker and also it turns to a gelatin state, when cooled. 

Final product of GLACE.

A broth is a soup consisting of meat or vegetable chunks, and often rice, cooked in stock. 

A broth is pretty self explanatory. 

We also have to do knife plates. A knife plate a tray of different knife cuts we must preform on different items. The things we must preform are:

It is supposed to look like this:

And mine looked like:

We were given 65 minutes to finish all of this. And it seems like a long time but it creeps up on you. We will eventually have to finish this in like 30 minutes. Each week we lose 5 minutes. 

It's been a great experience. And I am sorry that I am so late. This weekend was full of fun things and everything! haha 

Here are some artistic pictures of my knife tray and knives! :)

And now it's time for my meals.

For lunch all I had was a mediocre salad.. That's it.. It wasn't worth taking a picture of. 

But for dinner.. I had a Mixed Green Salad with a Blue Cheese Dressing and a Cream of Mushroom Soup. And I had Sauté Chicken aux Fine Herbs. (Which was a Sautéed Chicken with Pasta and Glazed Carrots and Green Beans)

And for dessert I had an Apple Pinwheel and a Chocolate Mousse. The CHocolate Mousse was probably the best mousse I have ever eaten! But I am sorry this is so late.. Monday's will be up in due time! :)

And so my journey continues..