Friday it was discovered that we, the evening class, had gotten the day class' cart by mistake, which is why we had so much product to work with (we have 11 students, they have 24). Thankfully, that meant we only had to use up two loaves of bread...which was still somewhat of a challenge. Air Force made a french toast casserole and Island Kid (who is transferring down to Atlanta after this quarter) and Old Gross Guy (as I'm now calling him) made normal french toast. Uppity worked on making tortillas, which I teasingly pointed out turned out more like arepas. Slightly oversalted, but tasty. She, of course, finished like 40 minutes after we all were done with our stuff, so once again we were all waiting around for her to be done.
The Young Gentleman in my group and I took the ground pork and made a couple batches of "sausage" patties. I put it in quotes because, while really good, they tasted more like seasoned pork than breakfast sausage. We kinda just threw a bunch of stuff in and pan fried up the patties. The pork ended up having minced fresh garlic, onion powder, marjoram, thyme, crushed red peppers, salt, and pepper in it. Delicious!
For some reason, we had a bottle of banana liquer on our cart, so I brought in some bananas Friday and made a non-brandy containing version of Bananas Foster. I always thought it was some intricate, fancy dessert until I figured out a couple years ago, it's really just melted sugar, butter and some booze with sauteed bananas. We ended up using it as a topping for Air Force's casserole. SO GOOD.
At some point in the evening, GMC came in and pulled me over to him. He handed me a sashimi knife that he's used for 25 years, telling me it was from the heart and that he wanted me to have it, as my birthday present. I was pretty speechless. Now I just need to learn how to use it...
Saturday was just the final for our Safety and Sanitation class, which was actually a certification test for Serve Safe. It was 90 questions, and I know I missed one for sure, but feel really good about it overall. And then I proceeded to be social two nights in a row. I'm really not quite sure what to do with myself now...except crank out a PowerPoint presentation for Saturday and do some review for my finals this week. Thursday is the written and I'm sure knife cuts, then Friday and Saturday we will be broken up into two groups to do the practical. After that I get about two weeks off, which I plan to spend doing some pre-reading for Baking and Pastry since I discovered from Chef F (the instructor) that we cover the first 6 chapters in the first 3 weeks...it's a really front-loaded class.
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