Veggies and Layer cakes

Last Wednesday we had a Test on vegetables which we had been studying for the previous three weeks. I know that sounds like a long time to do vegetables, but we did different styles of cooking like braising, roasting, and grilling. For the test we needed to make our own recipes for four dishes and we had two and a half hours to complete it versus the usual four hours that the class runs (a friend from Yeshiva was visiting that day and he said he felt like it was something out of a cooking show). We had to make a tomato antipasti, Braised pumpkin, braised carrot, and a pasta dish with vegetables.

(readers note: I saved my blog from the other night- what's written above- and no this is more)...

This week we did granitas in school (they are essentially ices). They're pretty easy to make, and it was more of something easier to do as a break between our test last week and purim break, which starts on thursday. Actually, we only did Granitas on sunday and monday... today the chef broke the class into two teams, with a head chef and sous chef on each team. Each team has to create a menu, which includes a theme, and a whole write up with ingredients that we will need and pricing and everything. Whichever menu the chef likes best, that team will cook the other team their menu when we get back next wednesday, and the following week the other team will cook their menu and the other chefs in the school are going to be judges on both teams dishes.

In pastry class today and tomorrow are a test on layer cakes, which is what we've been working on for the past few weeks. On sunday and monday we had more chilled out classes learning different purim pastry things.

Thats prety much all thats been going on in school lately. This week is Ta'nit Ester, and sunday is purim. I plan on buying a lot of wine and dressing up as Super Mario...