Poaching is illegal...NOT IN COOKING!!!! Day 25!!!

Hello Food Diary and Hungry Bloggers!

Poached Salmon with
Rice Pilaf and tourned zucchinis

Poached Salmon 

It is another fabulous day in the Le Cordon Bleu kitchen, and it is our last lesson of the term. This is both an exciting moment, and a scary one...with the end comes finals (DUN, DUN, DUN!!!). After today I have three grueling days of testing (everyone wish me luck!). I love being in the kitchen...but this class has sure kicked my butt!!! I am looking forward to a small summer break and a chance to regroup and prepare for Culinary Foundations 3! I have decided that I am going to start my reading early and get ahead and make life easier for myself down the road. I have grown to love my two chefs and will be sad to move on to a new class... but life must go continue! Today, I am going  to keep this blog short and sweet...I have 3 days of finals to study for...so I need to hit the books! Today was Our last lesson in Les Cuissons, and we learned how to poach. Poaching is the process of cooking something in a large amount of simmering water. On the menu for today was Poached Salmon with Rice Pilaf, tourned zucchinis, and a buerre blanc suace (this is one our dishes on the final), and Fillets of Sole Bonne Femme (A dish with fillets of Sole fish, sliced potatoes and mushrooms covered in veloute sauce). Today I did well on both of my dishes. My Fillets of Sole Bonne Femme came out nice (it looked a little funky, but chef said it was fine)...I had a little too much flour in my Veloute sauce. My poached salmon looked great!!! I finished early today so I got to spend extra time working on my plating (and I got to use the new plate I just bought!) :) I think it came out really cool! Chef loved my new plate and she thought my presentation was really nice. I over cooked my salmon just a tad (Chef said that was partially because I was given a tiny piece of fish)...but otherwise everything was delicious! Today was a very relaxed day...I like to call it the "Calm before the storm." Tomorrow marks the start of my finals! We will be taking the written exam...and then we have the rest of class to practice our 4 dishes for the practical finals on Wednesday and Thursday!! Yikes!!! :)

Fillets of Sole Bonne Femme

Off to study!!

-Chef Kass In Training!