It has been six months since Rona & I graduated from Pro 1 Chef School. We are both excited to be back in the classroom to learn about ethnic cooking, palette development and food paring in Pro 2 classes. In Pro 1 we learned about techniques and ...
Main Dishes
Dining & Celebrating in Paris
This weekend France is celebrating La Fête Nationale, the French National Day. It commemorates the storming of the Bastille, which took place on the same day in 1789 and was considered to be a symbol of the uprising of a modern nation. Since I ...
methods & madness…
final class – testing, one, two, three!
My ramblings from Pro-Chef French Cooking Class have sadly come to an end after spending the last six months learning techniques, styles, and culinary terms. In the end, there was always a method to the madness. The first week of testing stressed ...
methods & madness…
class 16: yeast breads – a fragrant uprising
Recipes & Ramblings from Chef School Bread was one of the first things my mother taught me to bake. The fragrance of freshly baked bread was as familiar as a Saturday night bath on a frigid evening in Iowa. I could often be found covered ...
Spaghetti with Bolognese Sauce
Methods & Madness... Class 15: Sausages & Such Recipes & Ramblings from Chef School Pork butt… last week we braised it, this week we ground it up. I sure didn’t know how useful pork butt is! This was our first lesson in forcemeat, ...