Today is the first day of the seventh week of school and that means that we are in a new class--Food Foundations 2 (F2) and have moved over to the next kitchen. We will be cooking much more now. The F1 class focused a lot on sanitation and we watched Chef demonstrate cooking techniques in there. Now we do it ourselves! Today we made veal stock. I took a TON of pictures! You can see that we roasted the veal bones and mirepoix first because it is a brown stock. It needs to cook all night and there is a lot of it so we took in downstairs to a different kitchen and put it in kettles. Good stock is the foundation for most sauces and all soups so we go through a lot of it at school. It sure smells good!
I'm still having car trouble. I think something is up with the transmission. Thank God, though, that I have finally found someone to carpool to school with! My classmate, Martin, offered to pick me up. I can't even tell you how grateful I am for that! I really want to finish this course but I can't get to school without a car. There is no public transportation out that far and I wouldn't want to be on it quite that early anyway. School is at 6am. I don't know how early I would have to leave to get there on a bus or train even if they were available and I don't think that I would feel safe walking when it's still dark.
I'm still having car trouble. I think something is up with the transmission. Thank God, though, that I have finally found someone to carpool to school with! My classmate, Martin, offered to pick me up. I can't even tell you how grateful I am for that! I really want to finish this course but I can't get to school without a car. There is no public transportation out that far and I wouldn't want to be on it quite that early anyway. School is at 6am. I don't know how early I would have to leave to get there on a bus or train even if they were available and I don't think that I would feel safe walking when it's still dark.
Making mirepoix (50% onions, 25% carrots, and 25% celery):
Martin:
We are roasting the vegetables:
Heather, Dinah, & Sergio:
Our new F2 teacher is Chef Todd:
This is our school president, Todd Pearson, giving us a pep talk:
Jamie, Rachel, Dewey, Kevin, and Matt (he's the most cheerful dude):
Martin, Meredith, Rachel, Jason, Jamie, & Charles:
Dewey & Kevin (and Chef Nathan):
Roasted veal bones:
Charles:
Pince' tomato paste and deglaze the roasting pan:
Chris, William, Daniel, & John:
We dumped everything together and took it downstairs to a kettle:
Matt laughs all the time! Cool guy!
Jared deglazing the roasting pan:
Chef Kim & Chef Todd:
Measuring out aromatics:
Adding the aromatics:
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