Holy cow! This week we cooked and ate 4 beef dishes in 2 days. That is as much beef as I would normally consume in about 2-3 months. My weight is up 1 pound from week 3. If I keep up this carnivorous bender, I’ll be up to a porky 152 by the end of [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2008’
culinary school- week 3- (140 lbs.)
Chicken Saltimboca
Well, the pace continued as we wrapped up our third week. If I never see another chicken, it will be too soon. After de-boning one and cooking (and eating) it 7 ways, plus the preparing and ingesting of assorted accompanying pig products, I’m really close to buying myself a one way ticket to Vegetarianville….or [...]
culinary school- week 2
This is pretty much how I am feeling after my first full week at culinary school. Wow! Things are clipping along at an intense pace, and the learning curve is enormous. We have gone from zero to fancy in 8 days, and I’m pooped! Here is a short list of some of the things we [...]
leek, onion and rutabaga soup
Last weekend part of our homework assignment was to make a chicken stock, using the same method we had been taught the previous week. After doing so, I realized that this stock would need to somehow be used….We had worked with rutabaga on Thursday for our knife skills practice, so I decided to make something [...]
the art of food
Crab Apple Gown by Nicole DextrasHere is an event you may want to check out….The Art of Food at Emily Carr Institute. This exhibit “features twenty artists who are Emily Carr Institute (ECI) Alumni, Masters or Undergraduate students, whose work deals with food in its imagery or as its medium. As varied in approach as [...]
week 1- first day of school
I announced back on December 22 that I would be beginning a fifteen week culinary program in the New Year. Well….I am here to report that we have all survived week 1 (a short week, as we started Wednesday, January 2). During our first 3 days at Northwest Culinary Academy of Vancouver 2 passionately committed [...]
