Folie dans la Cuisine

We got a new chef today. And boy o boy, for once, I wished it was Chef Graeme's reassuring face we would be seeing.

Our practicals are 2.5h sessions with assessments at the end of it. Usually, our chef would be on hand to assist. Today, ours just looked and rushed us. We were thrown into the deep end and forced to swim. Well, that wouldn't have been too bad, apart from the fact that we had to make 3 different things.

Not two like the usual, not two like what the other classes did. Why? Because he didn't know and a classmate thought we were doing it.

And yea, maybe 3 things in 2.5hours isn't life threatening, but nothing was going my way. Nothing. The kitchen staff under prepared ingredients, and I had to run up and down 3 flights of stairs twice to get the stuff.

Yes I gym, but all that running takes TIME. and time was ticking away.


















































The only consolation perhaps was that the Madeleines, Pain Gene AND Lemon Cake turned out fine. But because we didn't have time to make the glacage, our lemon cake went sans glacage.

It was mad mad mad in the kitchen and that was only first half. Only one finished all 3 and the rest of us probably got terrible grades for that class. :( Hoping to score more points in the second half, we stayed in the kitchen during lunch to go through the recipes and processes. And, surprisingly, despite it being probably the most difficult to date, my Alhambra turned out quite well :):) [and my apron was decently white at the end of it! whoop!]

I do need to work on my horrible writing though.

But, we've never been more relieved that our Wednesday has came and gone.