Fish, macarons, coffe, duck, beer and wine (follow up)

After deleting the whole story just now, I will try again.
Watching football at the moment - France vs. Ireland. Looks good for Ireland...

Today was a maximum schedule - 4 lessons. Coffee in the cafe first.
Started with a not so fresh red mullet for breakfast. Debone, gut, wash, descale, the lot! Goodmorning to you too! This was presented on a 'royal custard' with a green drizzle around it of fennel/parsley/olive oil sauce. The latter was made by chef James......

My dish was good and immediately taken away by Petri from Finland. He's in intermediate pastry. In return he gave us lots of very very good macaroons. Thank you for a nice breakfast!
Then coffe in the cafe.

Demo by Patrick Caals. Duck. Clean, truss, make sauce, fillet and present.
The bugger was plated with French style polenta and mushrooms on top. Nice.
Chef also made a squab (flying rat) starter which was actually the best dish of the day. For dessert he made a swiss roll with 'cookies'. All these dishes actually sound a lot better in French.

Then straight to the practical to prepare ze duck. After presentation I ate the lot... and went straight to the cafe to have a pint!
Then again back to the school for the last lesson of the day - intoduction to wine tasting. Well, I'm tired, I stink, I sweat and the last thing that I actually want is wine ! I want to go home. That is what some of our classmates actually did - good idea! The class was together with the students from intermediate pastry - it was full and way too noisy. I only had one glass of wine, believe it or not... Can't say I really appreciated the demo/tasting, probably because I was so tired.

pictures will follow later.
goodnight,
Sjoerd

football: France is winning now...

Fish, duck, macarons, coffee, beer and wine

shit , I just deleted all the text by accident - I'll write it all again later.

Off to bed.