So a couple weeks into my adventure in culinary school has been enjoyable. It's definitely not as technically oriented as i would like, but i am learning how a restaurant kitchen is run. So far Chef Tim likes my food, he criticizes me on my timing, i've learned timing in the kitchen is your worst enemy. Everything has to be ready at the same time and that is hard. I'm taking evening classes with about 7 other people. Some people from the day classes have come in to do prep work, and they have said during the day they actually run the school deli and it's almost like free labor is how they described it. They say you learn a lot more though and it's a lot more fast paced, and you also get your own set of knives once you join the day classes. So once i'm done with this course i'm taking now, i'll probably register for the day classes. The only thing i don't like is the classes are every single day, 5 days a week. I don't care, i won't be going in on Wednesdays, i don't give a shit! The day students also said Chef Tim is totally different during the day, they say he's a total dick. I like him so far, he's nice, he sure as hell makes me nervous when he comes around and questions you about your food. "What did you put in it? How did you do it? Why did you do it like that?" I had to make a cream of mushroom soup to go with my main course yesterday, i wasn't "assigned" to make it but i had to because it called for it in the recipe and the kitchen pantry never has the already prepared cans of soup so we always to have to it ourselves, and Chef Tim came around and saw me making it and he was all happy and of coarse started questioning me on how i made it and he walked away happy and was all,"That's what i like to see!"

He gave me and these two other guys shit yesterday because we weren't gonna serve a veggie with our dish, and he was like,"you don't have to serve a veggie, but if you don't i don't know why your here, you're here to cook." He definitely can be a hard ass. He graduated from the Culinary Institute of America (a.k.a. the CIA) in 1985, in New York City. I like him cuz he's a big Julia Child fan like me, on my first day we got into a good conversation about Julia, i basically told him watching Julia is what really pushed me over the edge to go into culinary school.

So i'm definitely having fun, it's awesome. I really want a gas stove now, i love cooking with the flame it's so much more fun, when you toss the pan and the flame shoots up, it's so cool! :)