First REAL day

Yesterday was paperwork, doesn't count. Today the menu was roasted chicken, potato puree, sauteed zucchini, and a stratified cream sauce (building the components, or adding the next liquid, upon the last after reducing liquid off each time). I got chicken today so you get a rundown of that one. I cleaned the inside and stuff some herbs and seasoning inside the chest cavity. I seasoned the outside and we seared them real quickly in a pan (makes the skin a little golden brown and helps it crisp up). After that, it went into the oven and cooked a while longer. Came out very nice, I was very happy with mine. I could tell which was mine, since it was missing the lower part of one of the wings. ^_^ It'll be the same menu for the next two days. We're trying to get the basics down pat, so it's a lot of cutting vegetables, and breaking down whole chickens, and how to not cut your fingers off. Dad has apparently failed the last lesson today, so please mock him. However, he was not the first one to get cut, so bonus points for that.

First day!

Soooo. First day of school. Yes, I know plenty of those titles floating around. I started going to a community college right out of high school for business. I took two years because I was told I could earn my degree in two years and here I am, three years later half a degree away. I was going into IT/videogame design and realized that I couldn't actually sit still at a desk for a minute longer. So I decided that wasn't the career for me. About this time, my dad started thinking his career (electronics/IT/computery stuff) wasn't what he wanted to do with his life and with his children now 18 and 20, that it was time to do something for him. We are both now attending a culinary school for classic French cuisine (And yes, they teach more than just French food, but that's the basis for most high end food these days). Today was all about paperwork and introducing ourselves, so no pictures and nothing really interesting. We did get our recipe list, and some homework to start us off. We have to read a culinary magazine (mine dates four years before I was born) and give a two minute verbal report on something in the magazine. Easiest report I've ever been assigned. I'll give you pictures as soon as I have them (and we start cooking tomorrow).