Midterm week 6

We had short week. We had Thursday and Friday days off, I am so happy because it means I can leave on Wednesday night to go home and it was perfect timing. Although it was nerve wrecking with midterm. I did not get any sleep on Monday night because I want to take and get over with my exam. I did pretty good and better than bakeshop midterm so I left the kitchen with little proud. I had few issues with my exam like my puree potatoes soup was little grainy and my Espagnole sauce could have been thicken little more. I misunderstood with boiling broccoli, I did not mean to blanch them. I made few mistakes which I learn and I would not let it happen again. I did not take a lot of pictures of stuff I made for my midterm. I think I forgot and few people took my stuff to mix with others before it was too late during cleaning up, but I described the taste, plating, and impressions of recipes on my journal day 1. On Tuesday, we learned to stir fry and it was really good. Especially with rice pilaf and it gave nice flavor. and Wednesday, we practiced some knife cuts, we made beurre blanc which it turned really good. I made risotto and funny thing that I did not make any risotto on my exam, I was so afraid to make it so I could not focus on it. On Wednesday, I was like wait, I can do this for real and why did I freak out on midterm. We made french fries and deep them which they were very good, but sadly, I only had few pieces. My favorite part of this week would be stir fry and it was very good. It surprised me because I am not fan of spicy stir fry, but it was not spicy at all. I quite enjoyed it. Here are my journals for this week:
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Day 1:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByfPxj9CLYFDYkFfdlBGX1VNU2s/view?usp=sharing
Day 2:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByfPxj9CLYFDa3BKdmtOc0g1UVk/view?usp=sharing
Day 3:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByfPxj9CLYFDZ3ptTEFQT2dscUU/view?usp=sharing

November 10-13 week 5

For this past week, we have been learning how to make some soups, some lie chicken pot pie. I learned how to use Mandoline slicer to cut potatoes to make graufrette and it is fun to do it. They are pretty tasty after deep fry. My favorite part about this week is smashed potatoes and it was awesome because I actually did something by myself and it was really tasty. It was funny that my partner Alissa and I forgot to add truffle oil for a minute and we were trying to figure it out why it is missing something. As I walk by the table and I saw that I did not get truffle oil. It was great after we added, we were like holy cow that is so much better and did not realize how much difference it makes. We practiced our knife cuts this week too. I went to Nicholas show and it was ACF meeting on Monday with few of classmates. It was interesting and cool. We got to see a guy fillet cut a fish like huge fish, I believe he did five or six of different kind of fish (There is a picture below two photos). It was amazing that he would cut them in two seconds. I'm glad that I went and missed one of my classes and it was totally worth it. Here are my jounrals for this week:
Day 1:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByfPxj9CLYFDYUptaGJ1eFpZOFU/view?usp=sharing
Day 2:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByfPxj9CLYFDZWxyREMxaEc3Q0U/view?usp=sharing
Day 3:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByfPxj9CLYFDZTJqWGtLN2FzcjA/view?usp=sharing
Day 4:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByfPxj9CLYFDcGtQWXctRkFUdjA/view?usp=sharing

November 2-6 week 4

We learned how to make mother sauces this week. Top five mother sauces are Bechamel top,  hollandaise on right side, tomato is the red looking color, Espagnole is next to Tomato and has different colors, Veolute is on far left side. One on left side below Bechamel is roux that is basically equal parts of flour and butter. We practiced butcher our chicken in ten pieces and we did some knife cuts. I still need to practice on my knife cuts to keep them consistency and some were really thick or large. We learned how to make different type of soups which I described in my journal
Day 1:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByfPxj9CLYFDeUR3ZS1jQ05YTXc/view?usp=sharing
Day 2:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByfPxj9CLYFDQkN2azVITjllZDQ/view?usp=sharing

Day 3:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByfPxj9CLYFDdFc0UnZDTkNlYU0/view?usp=sharing

Day 4:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByfPxj9CLYFDaUpHUHlaMGI0XzA/view?usp=sharing