Fruit Tart with Pastry Cream and Fresh Fruit
I doubt many of you have ever made your own puff pastry before – well neither had I before this lesson in school. I had never even used it before in fact. Surprisingly, it’s actually pretty simple to...
View ArticlePommes Rissolee / I Started Culinary School
I know, I know… It’s been a while since my last post. Luckily there’s a good reason for that and it’s called culinary school. I had been going back and forth in my mind about whether I would actually...
View ArticleI’m a Master Baker
Well… maybe not just quite yet, but sometimes I think that perhaps I should consider a pastry career. Although I’m not a big fan of sweets (I’d much rather have a steak than a cupcake), I’ve found that...
View ArticleMenu Project: Summer Barbecue Inspired Four Course Meal for Eight
Dear Readers,Sorry I have been a little MIA recently, but it was all for a good cause. For school I had to create a four course menu for eight that is one of the big assignments of the whole program....
View ArticleMixed Green Salad with Goat Cheese, Blood Orange, Fried Shallots, and a...
Here’s the first course of my menu project that I created for school. I got the idea for this salad from some random restaurant I ate at in the West Village. That meal was a salad with goat cheese,...
View ArticlePort-Poached Apples with Goat Cheese Mousse and an Oatmeal Crisp
For your viewing pleasure, I now present the fourth and final course of my menu project (hold the applause). I was inspired by a dish I actually made last summer when a few of my best friends from...
View ArticleBlack Bean Cakes with Red Pepper Coulis and Roasted Corn Salsa
The last third of the program at The French Culinary Institute is working in the attached restaurant, L’Ecole. My time in L’Ecole, similarly to many of my fellow classmates, is my first stint in a...
View ArticleLate Night Snacks: Pan-Seared Pork Chops
When I was in culinary school I wouldn’t get home until 11:30 p.m. at the absolute earliest—and that was only if it was a slow night and I ran to the locker room as soon as we were released by the...
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