Saturday, June 26, 2010

The First Weekend

Yesterday was a pretty typical Friday. Woke up, went to class, had lunch, poked around the storeroom, hung out, went to class, had dinner and hung out with a new group of friends. I won't go into details because it was kind of boring since now classes are pretty standard. I will tell you about lunch though. The appetizer was Risotto with Sausage, Parmesan and Herbs. It tasted good and would have been perfect if the rice wasn't very undercooked. The entree was Breaded Salmon with Mustard over Sauteed Spinach and Horseradish Mashed Potatoes. I'm not big on salmon so I tried a few bites but it wasn't my favorite thing. The spinach was just alright but the potatoes were excellent so I devoured that. Finally dessert was just Cheesecake with Strawberry Sauce, good but very rich.

The way meals work here if you don't eat at the 3-course Banquet is just to go to K-16 which is a kitchen class where they change the menu everyday of about 3 options and you use a meal swipe and grab what you want to go sit down. The other option is to go to one of the Cuisines classes. These are Cuisines of the Asias, Americas and Mediterranean that each have around 3-4 options and you do the same thing, swipe and grab. For dinner yesterday we decided to do Asia. I had Bulgogi with Scallion Rice and Kim-chi. Its basically pork in some delicious sauce so it was great.

Our night consisted of hanging in a dorm cause the weekends here aren't exactly wild although we're slowly finding new and fun things to do like the drive-in movie theater, the roller rink and how it only takes an hour to get to NYC.

Today we woke up, and 9 of us went to a diner for lunch and then came back and parted way until we're going to meet for the fireworks tonight on campus. Tomorrow is the Stars and Stripes July 4th festival and I get to serve my homemade Vanilla Ice Cream with the Brewery Club. Hopefully it came out good.

Chef Werblin

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