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Minor Deity![]() |
Seriously, This place sounds like they are OTL - Out to Lunch. And seriously not worthy of your monies. This screwup is not the first. Expect it not to be the last. But .... Where do they get off doing this to their paying clientele? They really need to get their act together and as well, be reported for their lax programs. BLOG! | |||
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Minor Deity![]() |
MS...My son in college had a similar problem this year...Not all the staff are computer savy I think... I got a letter at home stating the my kid had not attended any of a particular class and that his academic scholarship was at stake! ![]() Turns out the "teacher" is not part of the regular staff and hadn't handed in any of the attendance records!!! We found the entire class was "flunking" despite attending every single class.....Problem solved now but you do need to stay on top of it...this experience may serve you well later then the IRS says you didn't pay your taxes. ![]() Your posts here and on FB are perfectly timed...I am currently reading Julia Child's "My Life in France" and am at the chapters where she was at the cooking school and loving every minute of it! It would seem to be the perfect book for you! ![]() Best of luck to you on your new term..only wish I lived closer so I could "test" your results. ![]() | |||
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LL - I would so take my money and run if I had anywhere comparable to run to! But I also can't deny the amazing opportunities that have fallen into my lap because of this school...like most bad relationships I'm just going to stay for now ![]() I am out and about in my uniform often. Coming home from class is the only time I can get most errands done (yes, I grocery shop at midnight ![]() ![]() BL - ![]() ![]() If I ever have time to think about picking up a book I'd love to check that one out ![]() Tonight we made chocolate souffles. YUM. Ours were perfect ![]() ![]() ![]() I managed to get my math homework squeezed in in the parking garage before class. I'm not so great at math and rounding decimals and had to do it in a slight hurry and was a little worried about it but I got it right! Tonight's homework is piping roseettes. Ugh. There is no way I'm going to be able to pipe roseettes and get them to campus looking the same since I have appts all morning/until class and lord knows how warm it's going to get in my car ![]() ![]() Our kitchen is right next to the kitchen Chef #1 is teaching in, we share a dish area and usually leave the doors open. So our Chef was talking about Kitchen Manager and responsibilities and all that and Chef #1 yells threw the dish room that I was perm. KM last term and did such a good job that he recommends that I be perm. KM again. And that settled that. Sigh. It's a nice compliment buuuutttt I really want to learn and concentrate on my own work. Like everyone else. and not have to think about a bazillion things. I understand "that's how it is in the industry" but I'm NOT in the industry. I'm learning how to be in the industry and I really just want to concentrate on my own damn stuff. Selfish, I know. Oh and I was right, our practical tomorrow is on pastry cream! How do I know? I have to scale out for myself and now for Chef for demo. I had to scale out Pate a Choux (the paste used for piping eclairs and all sorts of stuff that get filled with creams and whatnot) and Pastry Cream for myself and only Pate a Choux for him ![]() | |||
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How do you keep the board level and from slipping off? Towel? Playdoh? Its not selfish. Its not like humanity benefits if you are KM. In fact, some other student was desperately hoping for the experience and exposure. Its chef being lazy. However, it will in the long run do you good, because its as story you can tell in interviews (I was KM for x/y courses, based on Chef 1's recommending me to the other chefs). Why do they teach you all to say 'scale out' instead of 'weigh'? Between that and 'cook off', which should apply only to stuff stored already partially cooked, I'm well on my way to a new pet peeve (sorry ms). | |||
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Pinta & the Santa Maria Has Achieved Nirvana ![]() |
What piq said + 1. I figure the Chef realizes that he has someone in his class who: 1. has a brain 2. is competent, even talented 3. is motivated 4. works hard From your description of some of your other classmates, like the heroin addict, I'm not surprised they're thrilled to have you. They would probably be thrilled even without the heroin addict, though. ![]() ![]() | |||
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Thanks Nina ![]() Last night went well. We made the ugliest dessert known to man. Okay maybe not....but ugh. Not pretty and a huge pain in the butt. At least it tasted good! I got a 39/40 on my practical ![]() Gateau St. Honore: ![]() Tonight we have our first written exam. So not ready for it, lots of studying and reading to do today! I am so exhausted, running on about 12 total hours of sleep since Monday. Thankfully today is the last day of class for the week! I so don't mind being in class a little while longer than the earlier classes M-Th to have 3 day weekends every weekend! | |||
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Gadfly![]() |
omgosh pate a choux and pastry creme.. yum.. (i make cream puffs all the time for gatherings) | |||
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Gadfly![]() |
That dessert looks like a Kliban cartoon or a character on Sesame Street. | |||
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Seriously! Apple - it was delicious but I couldn't get over how ugly and what a ridiculous product it is. Our textbook has two different versions of the "story behind St Honore". Basically it's some made up St of pastry chefs ![]() Written exam went ok. 40 of the 50 questions were math ![]() Right now I'm doing a culinary venture in the other direction! I have a friend and her husband coming over for dinner and games tomorrow. I decided to make Coq au Vin (chicken with (or is it 'and'?) wine, yum) because I saw Alton Brown make it on Food Network recently ![]() ![]() | |||
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Gadfly![]() |
i could live on pastry cream. gosh that's delish. i rely on shoepaste (as my kids call it) for 'bring a dessert' events. i make small cremepuffs.. add something special to the cream (grand marnier or the cheap stuff).. a great chocolate icing. I guess here, in Kansas that sort of thing is very special because people always rave. i make them small enough so they will feel guilt free when selecting one. (also great filled with chocolate mousse (sometimes a creamcheese chocolate mousse). i have brought small creampuffs filled with smoked salmon mousse.. those were not so popular. | |||
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Minor Deity![]() |
Apple, you can mail those salmon puffs to me... | |||
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Has Achieved Nirvana![]() |
You have it right, it's "with". If it were "and", it wouldn't be "au", it would be "et". I always knew high school French would prove invaluable someday. | |||
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Serial origamist Has Achieved Nirvana ![]() |
IIRC, "au" is a contraction of "a le" (I think that a is missing an accent), which, IIRC is literally "to the". But I may be wrong. It happens sometimes. I never took French in high school. I think I took some other language that had funny-looking letters. | |||
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In my copious spare time I'm writing the "you wish you went to culinary school" cookbook. Each chapter will have some theory and my lovely tidbits of info that I've soaked up as well as my favorite recipes from school (because i'm sick of having notebooks all over my kitchen and wanted all my recipes in one place. So super famous wonderful chef that is now my boss said "sooo....write a cookbook. done deal.") ![]() | |||
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