Another week has passed and with that I've successfully completed another module at culinary school. Culinary Foundations III (CF III) is over and I feel I really have grown as an aspiring chef. As you can appreciate from my previous posts, we did a lot of cooking in CF III, we had a lot of fun being able to modify the recipes and bring our own creativity to the dishes we've cooked. But my favorite thing was creating the food for those Communal Breakfast Days. Rather than everybody preparing their own dishes, we worked together as a team, we created the menu as a team and we usually produced an amazing amount of food in the time allocated.
So last week, we prepared our final breakfast menu. This time the subject was seafood. We cooked dishes with shrimp, squid, clams and lobster; we shucked oysters, and we ate far too much of the food ourselves. But it was delicious.
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| Seafood Buffet |
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| Shrimp Gumbo |
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| Grilled Squid with Herbs & Potatoes |
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| Coconut Shrimp |
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The day before the Seafood Buffet, we talked about and then cooked with Scallops and Mussels. I had to shuck the biggest scallop I have ever seen as it was delivered still in its shell. Did you know that the scallop swims? I didn't, but our Chef Instructor showed us this cool video on YouTube. Scallops have eyes and open and close their shells like a mouth when they swims.
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| The scallop taken out of its shell and before it is cleaned up |
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| Pan-fried scallop on a bed of tomato sauce |
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| Moules Mariniere with home-made linguini |
It feels like we've cooked our way through the animal kingdom over the last 6 weeks and now it's time for a change of subject. Tomorrow morning I will be starting my Baking&Pastry Module. That means for the next 6 weeks you will hear a lot about flours\, baking temperatures, baker's ratios etc. and you will see lots of mouthwatering pictures of breads, cakes, scones, eclairs etc. So, brace yourselves and have that extra candy bar handy should your sweet tooth demand feeding when reading my blog postings over the next few weeks.
Happy eating everyone.
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