The Culinary Tales Week 30: Better Lucky Than Good

At long last we came to the final week of garde manger. I don’t think there was a single soul who didn’t want that…

Chicken Tagine with Couscous

I was going to post this recipe in a couple of weeks but I made it this weekend and people have been bugging me for the…

Ras el hanout is a blend of spices used across North Africa. It means “top of the shop,” referring to the fact that a shopowner’s best…

Garde Manger was proving to be a challenging track, and what gave me extra incentive to look forward to the weekend was Wine class on…

Week Five of Garde Manger was mercifully easy. First, we were given a mini-test on consomme and those who got As got to…

World Elephant Day was last week; August 12, to be exact. I wish I had known sooner, because I could have shared this in a timely…

We had reached week four of the term, and it was kicking my butt. The food production was a challenge all by itself, then we…

Week 3 Garde Manger was a bit of a slow week, as we only had to present sandwich and Italian buffets and make salads. …

If I thought the first week of Garde Manger was brutal, it was a lot worse during the second week. The biggest problem was…

Don’t know about you, but when I was a kid, I couldn’t wait to be grown up. Now that I’m grown up, I wish…