So Long...

Oh it's been so long since my last post that I don't even know where to start! I will try to start at the beginning of Superior...but I don't have a lot of pictures or stories to tell. The bottom line is that it's hard. Much harder than intermediate and DEFINITELY harder than Basic. Now we're basically expected to forget all the traditional crap they made us copy in the other levels, take the techniques we've learned and launch out with them into a land of creative wonder. How hard is it to switch gears? You have no idea.

So, in short, I have a ton of pastry pictures and I'm pretty sure I don't have a single cuisine picture from the last 4 weeks of this session. I just keep forgetting my camera, and, well, let's be honest, my plates look like shit, so my motivation to snap snap even when I have the camera is just not there.

So let's start with the bits and pieces I was missing from last session. First the garde manger workshop from oh so many months ago. I know that mum has been waiting to see these. Here are all the pics from that "buffet" with our beautiful flowers pulling all the plates together. To refresh the memories out there, this was our jelly workshop with my brilliant salmon spiral mousse. So bit by bit here are the dishes we made:

The brilliant salmon mousse

The Russian Salad

Potato Salad

Canapes

Terrine 1

Terrine 2

Monkfish Terrine (Heidi's genius piece)