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This Sunday is my midterm. We all need to arrive with two hors d’oeurves, prepared and plated, to somehow wow and woo Chef, a woman who has seen and eaten it all. As a test, I had a small cocktail party here last Saturday. I methodically cooked all day with the amazing help of Joe, [...]

Puff Pastry II… II After destroying my car, I got the kids to camp in one piece. I headed straight for class and was lucky to arrive at the same time as Chef. My pastry was looking pretty good (coffee grounds, temp and all). I was nervous anyway. I was joining the Wednesday class and [...]

7/25/04  E-mail Invitation to My Closest Friends So, as most of you know, I’m halfway through this really annoyingly difficult cooking school. My midterm is to bring in two hors d’ouevres on 8/1, upon which I will be graded. So, I was hoping that you’d be willing to come to an hors d’oeuvres tasting on [...]

Well, puff pastry II was…  interesting. Joe was in DC Monday and yesterday, and I was with the girls. I missed Monday’s class, but he and I had worked it out that he would stay home Wednesday, and I would take a make up class. Yesterday I was determined, regardless of two hot tired girls [...]

So, I am starting to get some feedback… I am quite promiscuous with my commas apparently. I’m also overly zealous with ellipses, and am parenthetically challenged. Although I’ve chosen to write these missives in e-mail form, the most forgiving grammatically, I am quite aware that my grammar sucks. Let’s not forget that I am the [...]

So when I had last left you, my mouth was coated with a film of olive oil, and my tongue was fuzzy from one too many unidentifiable vinegars. Chef and I had bonded in some weird sorority-style hatred of Crazy Linda. That night I finally got my chef’s coat (well, actually it’s a cook’s coat-plastic [...]

I missed the “Game ” class, and then we had the Independence holiday off. Sweet relief. I was worried that everyone would think that my absence meant that the ‘Pastry Cream Incident of 2004′ had gotten the best of me. Well, honestly, I was wondering, too. But, no. Like clockwork, Monday the 12th came around [...]

I missed the class before Independence Day. It was Game. Yuck. People have been trying to get me to Saddle Peak Lodge, Josie’s and Manka’s Inverness Lodge.  I always gracefully bow out. They are famous for their Venison and Buffalo preparations. For some odd reason, I’m more comfortable eating a raw octopus tentacle than a [...]

7/7/04 Everybody loves pastry cream. It’s that yummy stuff inside an éclair or the base for your favorite fruit tart. It’s so beautiful to look at and bite into. There’s nothing better than an éclair or cream puff balanced perfectly in your hand. You open your mouth, bend forward and bite down. It’s quickly followed [...]

Home-schooler and I prepared our stations. Our partnership was less skipping-off -to-the-swings, and more a skipping-off-to-the-enormous-salmon. Our recipe was a marinated salmon. It was a great recipe for us. We worked on the marinating part together, but then were given free range to present individually.  Again, the working together part was not so great. A [...]