Posts from the ‘Culinary Tales’ category

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…

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…

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…

I had finally felt comfortable with baking, was even liking it. But I couldn’t wait to be done with the track. The whole class…

There was so much more to baking that there wasn’t enough time to cover every topic. That is why there’s a whole separate patisserie…

The week’s menu called for Opera Cake and Sachertorte, as well as the second of our mystery box challenges. We also got up close and…