Check out my slide presentation on Slideshare

I just finished putting together a chronological slide show of all the dishes we prepared in my last class.  Go to this site and take a look.  I’m trying to see how I can put up a widget of future presentations on my blog sidebar.

Merry Christmas to all my readers

I wish you all a very merry Christmas and hope that everyone is finding themselves with family and friends on this special day. I was awoken this morning at 7am by my children who were in a fervor of anticipation over what Santa had placed under the tree. My parents came over at around 7:30 [...]

The Meatrix

A funny and informative short movie about CAFOs more about "The Meatrix", posted with vodpod

store wars

My son loves this video which touts the benefits of organic farming practices and points out the harm of industrial farming. more about “store wars“, posted with vodpod

Snails and Turbans

We are just about at the end of the final class of 2008 and thus concluding my first year at Cook Street as a fulltime employee.  Well actually we started another class on December 1st.  We changed the curriculum by having the students start with the Wine Program and Sensory Evaluation.  We felt the students [...]

New Bauscher plates

Last week I received another shipment of plates from Bauscher.  So Christmas came early.   I received an email a few weeks back from Jeff Heany stating he was sending me some other samples.  I opened up the box, being careful to pop every single bubble of the bubble wrap and discovered another dozen or so [...]

Duck poached in beurre fondue with watercress puree parmentier, turban of butternut squash and a walnut verjus sauce

More work on Bauscher plates.  This time Garde Manger plated a miniaturized version of the duck consommé on one of the Bauscher silhouette small bowls.  I have been wanting to see what might work well with this design.   I will play with it further as I think it is a very attractive shape. Chef  [...]