Today was all about stocks - brown stock (veal), white stocks (fish, chicken, and white beef stock with blackened onions), and vegetable stock. We made/started 5 different stocks today. This was the first time I've seen veal bones. Check them out: I think we roasted around 100 lbs. of veal bones to make stock. Crazy. One …
Category: Food
Tournage – Day 4
Today's objectives included learning to cut vegetables into 7-sided, faceted-oval shapes using the tournage method. Tournage comes from the word "Tourner" which means "to turn". This is a very technical cut, and so far, I'm not very good at it. I'm at the apartment in San Francisco at 7:45 p.m. practicing tournage with a 5 …
Day 3 at FCI
So, we "partner up" on day 3 in anticipation of making 2 dishes from Lesson 3 - a stove-top style ratatouille and a goat cheese, roasted beet, and apple timbale with a white wine and herb vinaigrette. This is not my actual beet and goat cheese timbale dish because I forgot to take a picture …
Day 2
There are 10 students in my class, but only 7 hats showing in this pic. Today's class was more nuts and bolts. The first half we learned about safeserv regulations and how not to poison people. We also learned some of the realities of food costing and waste, and that each chef who runs her …
A chef is born!
Thanks to my new friend, Anne, I have a few photos of taillage techniques. For those who don't know French, taillage is the practice of cutting vegetables into uniform sizes and shapes. We learned how to ciseler, emincer, and make macedoine and brunoise cuts from vegetables. No student cut themselves, although Chef Tomm (cheftomm.com) predicted …
Salty Apron 