Cheese Idea!

[catgoturtongue5]

Part of my story has to do with a young man taking a job in which he lies about so he can pay the bills. So he takes a job as a chef and his first assignment is a party in which the featured item is cheese. He barely knows what to cook but somehow manages to be able to accomplish the job

Comments

[torainfor]

I love brie baked in philo dough with cranberries. Something along the lines of this.

[pdlloyd]

Fondue? Welsh rarebit?

Is he a chef with a catering firm? My husband and one of our sons have both worked as cooks in restaurants and if you don't have some pretty solid credentials, you start out as a dishwasher and work your way up to prep cook, long before you get a position as a chef. Plus, the salary isn't all that great, except for a rarefied few, who are usually going to be in situations where the references and employment history actually do get checked.

[full_metal_ox]

And this language is not only verbal but kinesthetic. Watch any TV cooking show (my favorite is Iron Chef), and you'll notice that the chef and his or her assistants move in a particular designated traffic flow--absolutely necessary to keep people from tripping over each other under hectic conditions.

(I speak from personal, though amateur, experience; until my best friend and I managed to work this out, a lot of our attempts to cook together in her rather narrow kitchen consisted of, "Tell me where the hell your way *is* and I'll get out of it!")

[syntinen_laulu]

Everybody thinks cheese souffle is a very clever thing to cook but actually it's dead easy, if you can just get the damn thing to table before it starts to collapse.

Or baked cheesey things - cheese straws, cheese thins, that sort of thing - are quite straightforward, and you can make them in advance which means any burnt batches can just be got rid of. It's the quality of cheese and the freshness of the baking that makes them good, so if you source a good cheese and make them on the day, you're laughing.

[leathermines]

Chef Rena's 5 easiest Cheese things. (please forgive spelling - I cook it, I don't know how to spell it

[alinalotus]

I've been to quite a few parties where fondue has been served. It's a bit fancier than cheese and crackers, but still easy enough that a novice chef could pull it off. The trick is pairing it with the right breads.