Back in the saddle again

I am happy to tell every one that I am no longer looking for a job!!! I thought I was going to loose my mind from not having a job.
I have recently gotten into Chinese brush painting as soon as I figure out how to post pictures I will post some of them. I think that I would like to try to find a way to decorate my next b-day cake so that it looks like a brush painting. I wonder if it can be done??? Well, I have a while to figure it out.
I really like pesto I mean most people like pesto but I really really like it I have never had a pesto that I did not like, basil, cilantro, parsley, ECT. However I am trying to make a hazelnut dessert pesto so far I have come up with hazelnuts, mascarpone, shredded chocolate but the liquid is where I am having my trouble. Hmmmm coffee syrup, hazelnut liquor, well I will keep working on it. There are so many pastry applications I can think of well sooner or later I will get it. I welcome any and all comments on this.
You know catering is not as boring as I thought it would be. I still love the line the team working together to get the dish out there on time with all parts of the dish finishing at the same time. With that being said when you’re making food for any where between 8 and 3000 it gets crazy as can be and the team has to work together. In the crazy world of catering cranking out food all day long just like you were on the line except that you can afford to be more of a perfectionist.
Well, I guess what Aim trying to say is that I am really happy here the people try hard to make it a great place to work.
When I got my kitchen aid several months ago I bought it in imperial gray so that I could decorate it however I felt. I have come to my decision I am going to get a Varga Girl or a Rosie the riveter on there I just can't think of anything more appropriate.
Stay freaky my freaky friends!

Lock up your sons!

Well folks, I am done with my externship and I am on the prowl for a new job. While some choose to stay at the place that do thier externship I am just not able to that. The place I was working for was just no challenge to me so when I was asked if I wanted to remain on with them after my externship I told them thank you but, that the restaurant was just not what I was looking for so, I gave my two weeks notice. So, that is all there is for now I am on the hunt for a new job. Now that I have some time I will try to write more often. Thank's to you all for reading my blog and being part of my life.

J-Dawg the 7 fingered prep cook!!

Our new prep cook J-dawg has been the expo of our restaurant for a long time and had been asking , begging, pleading,to become one of the kitchen crew so we welcomed him with open arms. So our expo comando joined our ranks as the new prep cook cuz as all cook's/chef's know if you can't prep it you can't cook it!! So here is the problem in the two weeks that he has been on the team he has cut himself no less than three times the first time he cut his finger tip off the second time he cut his finger open trying to reach into my knife roll ( any cook caught with dull knives should be shot) and the third he was cleaning chicken and he cut himself all three times suga momma had to bandage him up I tell you that boy is so accident prone it is unreal. So, bieng the wize ass that I am I decided to make a joke of this freak show (you know to honnor his achievement) I waited till we had a full staff and I began to tell J-dawg that I was so worried about him and I was loosing sleep and that I just did not know how I was gonna live with myself knowing that I had contributed to his delinqency and he looked at me puzzled and asked what I ment So I told him that I was partially responcable for that fact that now that he had only 7 fingers he would never learn how to count to ten like all the other kids. Every one bust out laughing it was great!!! So chilin's suga mamma's lessin of the day is ifin' you wants to be a cook or a chef you gots to learn how to usen a knife.

The last adventures of Captain Twink.

Well ladies and gentlmen Captain Twink is no longer the capatain of the rag tag dish crew. He has left our restuarant. There are many mixed feelings about this. On one hand he was a funny funny dude however he was sloppy and he just did not have the culinary knowlege let me give you all a visiual imagine that I have just been hired at the French laundry and Thomas Keller ( who is a culinary god) starts to talk to me about food I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that I may be holding up my end of that conversation for a little while (you know techniques maybe some of a my fav foods) however I know that he has a metric ass ton of knowledge and that in order to get some of it I should probably listen to what he says, but not captain twink his parents ran a catering company when he was younger and he can cook ok and he has pretty good skills on the line however he just does not have any culinary knowledge yet he thinks he does (and that folks is some scary shit).
The good news is that captain twink was the only one in line for the grill so, the story at work is that when he found out that the grill will be mine he left what is worse is that he really believes that he is the beat all end of cooking. I am ok with the fact that he quit it is how he did it that really made me mad he went on break (knowing that others where waiting on him the come back in order to go on thier breaks) and he never come back. Well, cap'in if you can't handle the heat get out of MY kitchen.
Speaking of grills I have decided that the grill needed a name it's a wolf grill so I desided that I should name her little red riding hood (twink's vote had been the cast iron cunt wich is a great name however, we have a completely open kitchen and well, customers that talk to us really are not the type that want to hear that however, little red riding hood seems to be going over well. I happen to be just evil enough to be considered a big bad wolf.
You know when you have worked somewhere and you learn all that you can learn from that place and you just are not challenged at work any more? I have only been with this restaurant for 6/7 weeks now I am just about there. I could allways learn to pick up more speed I can do a pretty good # of cover's but, I'm going to the Greenbrier next year 1,500 covers in a day. Other than that I have learned all that positions and all the recipies there is nothing else for me except speed and timing.
I guess this will be a good time to do reaserch and some other projects that I have been wanting to work on. I'll keep you all posted.

I shot the sherrif but I did not shoot the deputy.

All around the restaurant where I work
They're trying to track me down.
They say they want to bring me in guilty
For taking over the line,
For making the boys look bad.
But I say:

I shot the sheriff, but I swear it was in self-defense.
I shot the sheriff, and they say it is a capital offense.

Sheriff Marshal always hated me;
For what I don't know.
Every time that I plant a seed
He said, "Kill it before it grows."
He said, "Kill it before it grows."
I say:

I shot the sheriff, but I swear it was in self-defense.
I shot the sheriff, but I swear it was in self-defense.

Freedom came my way one day
when I was given a chance to run the grill.
All of a sudden I see sheriff Marshal
Aiming to shoot me down.
So I took the line, I made him look bad.
I say:

I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot the deputy.
I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot the deputy.

Reflexes got the better of me
And what is to be must be.
Every day I work and sometimes I share the grill,
But one day the grill will be only mine,
Yes, one day the grill will be only mine.
But I say:

I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot the deputy, oh no.
I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot the deputy, oh no.

That about sums up the day that I had on thursday Let's just say if there was any doubt of weather or not I was going to be a perminate fixture at the restaurant and on the line that has been clarified this grill bitch is here to stay (well till I get to go to the greenbrier in April)

the lost entry!!

It was a hot and balmy saturday night and the kitchen gods had smiled upon me. I had been asked to work the line on a saturday night (the joy I felt cannot be described by mere words). If you are a chef or a line cook or a culinary student then you will remember the 1 st time or the anticipation of the first time you were put on the line. Here I was a saturday night I was cranking out the food there were no errors no send backs I imangine that I was a little slow however in no way shape or form was anyone waiting on me for any thing. So, here I was cranking along (it was later said that I was more than holding my own) and we ran out of fritter batter so, I was asked to make more. Cool right?? Well, normally I would agree with you however in this case it was all a nasty plot to get me off the line and to put the favorite back on the line (the owners would later confirm this in the hour lecture that we recieved) enter the sherrif (the dreaded evil that is employed were I work) so anyway back to the story I'm making fritter batter when the kitchen manager starts flipping out because I was not on the line. Well, J-dawg cut the tip off of his finger durring all this and so I took his spot on garde manger. It was a crazy night. I really was not as mad as the management I was alittle mad however, I felt that they were probably just trying to make sure that I did not get over welmed I was fine but, I choose to believe that the intentions were tru and just. (ok I know that is a lie but this is my blog)

The New Kid!!

Have you ever been the new kid? You know first few weeks of a new job, or a new school, new house, or even new to a family or group. Well, I am currently the "new kid" so even all the shmucks at work (yes I actually used the word shmuck) think that they can boss me around. It is so fustrating to have someone try to tell you what to do when you are already doing a better job then them. In the three weeks that I have been at my Job I have done every job except 2 which is really good for a kitchen job. I already have my arch nemesis I intimidate him and so he tries to make my life miserable however he is the sweetest person 5 mins later. There is at least one person who I swear has no business working here . You know being the new kid when you are an over achiever with OCD. (bet you would love to work with me) Any way, because I am new every one assumes that I couldn't possible know as much as them. However in past 3 weeks that I have been working there we have implimented at least 5 changes and I now have everyone trying to out clean, out work, just plain out do me and the sad part is that they are working hard just to keep up with my norm just wait till I turn up the heat and start trying hard. (insert evil laughter here)