First Blog!

So this is my first blog. I thought I'd set up a blog to record thoughts and pictures of me going through culinary school but so far (half way into the semester) I haven't attempted. So here goes.

Culinary school is a lot harder than I thought, it's not just cooking and tasting. There is a lot of math (conversions), reading, studying and effort involved. I'm impressed with people that actually attempt and finish. A huge bonus on my part is I have all of the core classes so besides math, most of my classes are actually cooking classes; minus the business and sanitation/health classes required. I'm trying to take all of the harder classes first and hoping to coast through the end with the easy and fun cooking classes. Even after I have my degree and certification, there are tons of follow up classes I could and plan on taking or hope to!

I love my Basic Food prep class. My team, Matt and Greg are awesome. With humility I might add, we really are the best in our class. We all made high A's on our midterms, which included a cooking practical! We cook really well together, and they make up for my math conversion deficiencies. I HAVE to get better at the math part. It's not so much the math as the equivalencies, ie 4 cups in a qt, __ oz in a lb. All of that is just memorization and I haven't worked in a kitchen before (they both have) so their more familiar with it. Anyway all that will come with time and practice.

I keep getting requests to cook for people ever since I started school. I actually knew how to cook really well before. Guess going to culinary school gives me more credibility with people. Hope it works out the same when I go for a job somewhere!

So that's about it for now with school. Oh, most everything we've cooked ie, cream of mushroom soup, home made onion rings, baked acorn squash, eggplant Parmesian, mac&cheese sauce, shrimp bisque, hollandaise sauce, corn chowder, ratatouille, tomato sauce, cream of broccoli, french fries, asparagus and countless other things have been amazing!