the long silence...

[pennie_dreadful]

...denotes that dreaded time of semester--finals!  Finals and projects!  Which I am almost through with!  *flail*  One more final to take this afternoon and the second semester of culinary school is officially over!

I recieved a grade of A on my Nutrition project, as well as some nice comments from the instructor.  Not bad for the slapdash effort it was.

I've already mentioned I did well on my practicals-- 

 







 I am so glad I practiced this at home!  The practials for stocks and sauces weren't as fun because we chose three sauces at random.  But then we went in the kitchen and he'd set up one of the tables in front of the range, and said he wanted us to pretend we were on a cooking show and tell the class what we were doing as we made our sauces (mine were veloute, mayonaise, and buerre blanc).  Gah!  It wasn't so bad, but still--most of you know I hate getting in front of people--for any reason.

 

Kitchen hijinks.

And look!  There is my hand!

So all I need to do now is take the written final for Stocks and Sauces and the whole thing is finished.

Oh yes, and I forgot to mention that this morning I overslept and was an hour late to International Cuisine.  As I was walking to the building, I saw my instructor and called out to him--good thing, too, because he had been about to leave.  Not only was I late to take the final, but I missed the scully, too.  (Which is just a funny term for cleaning the kitchen, or parts of it, anyway.)  Oh, darn!  I was so looking forward to cleaning out the walk in fridge!  I was able to take the test though, and that's the important part.