I'm curious like a cat. That's why my friends call me whiskers...
Just a post to remind myself and those who still read this thing that I'm still alive. Advanced cooking rocks the shit! It's the best class I've ever taken for sure. The premise is that you just go to class and come up with menus for the evening. Sometimes you have time to prepare a menu, like when the theme was childhood memories or revamping "Le Guide Culinaire", and other classes it's a mystery basket a la Iron Chef style. Except there's usually like, 10 ingredients we have to use, there's four of us on a team working together, and we've got 2 and a half hours instead of 1. This week's theme was vegan for example, and we had about 8 ingredients that we had to mold into two dishes, and our food came out fantastic! We pretty much have access to whatever we want in the school, and we have a pretty large liquor budget, so every class ends with everybody tasting the food everybody's prepared in class, then getting a good buzz from all the wine, beer, and mixed drinks that get paired with the food we cook, and leaving class feeling satisfied and accomplished. It's amazing! Everything else has been going well, too, and this weekend looks like it's going to be a fun one.