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Eliana
Nov 11, 20134 min read
Day 65: Meatless Monday.
Meatless Mondays coming to you all today. Every Monday, our school tries to either honor vegetarians or give our protein a break at the...
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Eliana
Nov 4, 20133 min read
Day 60: Uh-Oh.
Just as the biggest day of my culinary career is about to approach today, I wake up unable to swallow on Saturday. Oh dear lord! Really?...
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Eliana
Nov 1, 20132 min read
Day 59: Last of Level 3
Last day of level 3 was today. Can you believe I am entering into my fourth month of culinary school!? This is crazy scary… and no dad I...
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Eliana
Oct 30, 20134 min read
Day 57: Focus Game Strong.
Focusing was my game today and focusing is just what I did. I wasn’t singing, was barely all over the place, and didn’t look into the...
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Eliana
Oct 29, 20134 min read
Day 56: Hollywood Meets Bollywood.
A new week, a new partner. Oh My-tree! After having worked with Jack last week and having worked so well together, it was a little...
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Eliana
Oct 24, 20134 min read
Day 53: Nonstop Giggles.
If I had one word to describe the day it would be- giggles. From the second I stepped into the kitchen, I was all over the place and not...
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Eliana
Oct 21, 20134 min read
Day 50: Just Me, Myself, and I.
Done with my second mock midterm and ready to never get off the couch. Just like the first mock midterm, we had to pick a number out of a...
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Eliana
Oct 18, 20133 min read
Day 49: Squeeze Those Lemons.
T.G.I.F. and boy was I cruising down Sunday morning. In other words, I was positioned at the pastry station and did a lot of waiting...
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Eliana
Oct 17, 20133 min read
Day 48: Grandmother Style Chicken
Happy Birthday Chef Veronica, don’t worry I understand why you took the day off, I did it on my birthday too, when I was a teacher! That...
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Eliana
Oct 16, 20133 min read
Day 47: Barramundi Fish and Sous Vide.
Today we were racing against the clock. We had to be done with every dish before 12 pm because we had a special “sous vide” lecture and...
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Eliana
Oct 10, 20133 min read
Day 42: This is NO Joke.
Level 3 is NO joke. Wow- I swear I look at the clock at 9 am and the next thing I know I’ve been cooking straight through till 2pm! We...
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Eliana
Oct 9, 20134 min read
Day 41: Three Months in, Already?
Going into my third month and wanting to pass out thinking about how in a month I'll be half way through with my program. With every new...
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Eliana
Oct 8, 20135 min read
Day 40: A World War. Me Vs. Chef.
Level 2 final here I come! We took the final written exam, which I tend to hit a home run on (got a 97%- only question I missed was an...
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Eliana
Oct 7, 20132 min read
Day 39: A Trip to Wine Country.
Breaking Chef news: Chef Dominique shaved OFF his mustache! He no longer has the Captain Hook facial hair going on. I hope it grows back...
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Eliana
Oct 4, 20134 min read
Day 38: Flounder, My Way.
Three words: Flounder Your Way. At around 2 am last night, I woke up and all I remember is that I was thinking about how I was going to...
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Eliana
Oct 3, 20133 min read
Day 37: Italian Pastas, YES PLEASE!
We’ll we finally landed in Italy today and for the most part I was pretty impressed (we didn’t actually travel there for all those...
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Eliana
Oct 2, 20134 min read
Day 36: To Italy and Beyond...
Bonjourno everyone! Today felt like I was preparing myself for a little trip to Italy with Mushroom Risotto, Meat sauce, making our very...
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Eliana
Oct 1, 20134 min read
Day 35: Beet's Me!
Monday Morning, but yet I didn’t feel so sluggish. Maybe it’s because I knew that I only had half a day of cooking again. Not sure what I...
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Eliana
Sep 26, 20133 min read
Day 32: Adios Pastries, It's Been Real.
I don’t know if I am sad or happy about the fact that today was our last day of pastries. Now it’s back to culinary and I’m a bit scared...
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Eliana
Sep 25, 20132 min read
Day 31: Short, But Sweet.
Sorry for the delay. I was busy attending the International Culinary Center Career fair where I met some fabulous potential...
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