And Jayne is not here..... #@! I'm all alone......
This morning I was so tired, I skipped (the wrong) class. Wrong, because the meat I should have been preparing was super stuff. But I just couldn't. (Cristina saved me a few pieces of the raw meat for tomorrow - thank you! nice birthday present...)
I went straight to the cafe this morning (11 'o clock) for coffee.
After that I got a very nice bithday cake (2) from Petri, who is from Finland. He bought two very nice pastry things on his way to the school - thank you! (The strawberry one was the best.) Most of the time he eats the dinners I make; He's still alive, so I must be doing something right somewhere.......
Today's demo and practical was about Lyon sausages, quenelles (fish) and we had to KILL crayfish (but only after we took the intestinal vain(?) out by pulling by it's tail - it was still alive!), this was only for the sauce - and we also made monkfish quenelles with this sauce and some kind of fritters dessert.
Chef Terrien was in charge. He normally only does superior cuisine demo's, but because most of the intermediate chefs are out, he had to do an intermediate demo. (Patrick is at the Nobel prize summit in Stockholm to cook, Franck is in Switzerland for work, so that only leaves Marc to teach - so chef Terrien helped out!)
Chef also made me a birthday dessert ! Fritters something - thank you chef!
See you all again tomorrow!
Sjoerd
