Vicky Learns to Cook

Cooking at home for practice.... October 5 633PM Well, that didn't turn out EXACTly like I planned.  I tried to make crepes mornay with chicken and mushrooms. However, crepes eluded me until the 8th try. I made 10. So then Andrew ate the two nice looking ones. I had to poach chicken and julienne it... not sure I even did that right.  The mornay sauce was for a huge pot so I had to quickly convert it .. and it needed a bechamel sauce.. more converting. Then the Mushrooms needed clarified butter and chopped herbs.  It was all  very complicated with many steps. And those crepes. So I lined a bread pan with broken crepes, placed chicken mushroom combo on top, layered more broken crepes, put on mornay sauce, paprika, and baked for 20 mins. Then topped with herbs and served. Man was that good. Broken or not. October 9 1000PM  Today in Cookery class: We made Clam Chowder, which turns out I actually love. And also Consomme which I could take or leave. We made a...

Hi, checking in again with my latest news from culinary classes. :) Here are the posts so far, enjoy! October 2 1103PM Culinary update: I got my Basic Skills class grade, an A- !! Not only that, my former teacher introduced me to my new teacher as her "star student"! Whaaaat?! I was so happy! Now I'm in Cookery, and today we learned to make stock in 50 gallon stockpots... I could climb inside they are so big.  We made a chicken stock and a brown stock (with tomato and caramelized the veggies). Smelled like heaven in there when we left. It has to simmer over night.  Tomorrow we make soup. Tur ns out the bouquet garni and sachets we made last week were used in the stock tonight. So far, this is a much less pressured class. And we have a planned meal every night that we have class (except tonight was just homemade jam and bread (and peanut butter, yuck), and pretzels with cheese sauce.) Not really a meal but they fed us, who am I to complain? October 4 900AM Yesterda...