day 49 of culinary school and we are starting restaurant simulation! this is a four day series of lesson where we prep and serve from a pre fixed menu of dishes as a way to get a better understanding of cooking to order rather than from start to finish. there are 4 parts of the menu, cold appetizers, hot appetizers, main entree seafood, and main entree meats. everyone drew their papers and we got cold apps! maybe not the most exciting in terms of technical skill but still so so important to lear

Day 105 @iceculinary is more practice for my final exam! I was really unsure what to do for my practical exam considering we had to use both white and dark meat with two different cooking techniques, but then my mind went straight to consomme! I really wanted to have multiple “layers” to this dish and for some reason I thought it would be super cool to have a something floating on the consomme which led me to the idea of a pond. roasted chicken thigh with roasted garlic, and shallot mixed into a