Semester 2, Week 8: Getting Back into the Swing of Things

 It was the week that I got back to class after my spring break. I was a little dazed after spring break but I got back on the horse with little or no complications.

 On Monday, Things were starting to get going but there was a problem though. The produce truck didn't show up due to mechanical problems and since my assigned dish I was supposed to prepare was eggplant parmesan, I could not prepare my dish. The good news was that class was dismissed early and get some extra free time. Later on that day, I also went to Mr.M's class and I got 3rd place for this contest/project. Ill try to post it up so people can see it in the sometime future.

  As the week goes by to Wednesday, I was serving the last buffet night at the dining room and moving up to Semi-al le cart. I was actually scared  at the thought, but I believe I would do beautifully on the semi- al le cart with my politeness and knowledge of the culinary arts. I am also going to learn more about the server lingo such as "Firring" or "Go'in out." In fact, I was thinking about starting some dictionary so that readers such as yourself can understand the lingo that would be discussed as the year goes on.

 So far things have been a little quiet at the college but soon things would start to pick up as the semester comes to a close. For now, its just me and my life as a culinary student. So now, I bid you a-do.  

Hey Everyone: The Newsest Artical is in.

Hi everyone, this is Chef Kyle and I got a new article out called "The Server and the Served." If you want to check it out, its in the Chefs Specials Tab just up above. I also want to tell you that my classes start up again tomorrow so there would be more weekly updates and other posts in the future.

That's all I have to say for now. I will be posting again really soon and I bid you a-do.

Semester 2, Week 7: Into the Jungle

Last week was like going into the fray of the jungle because there was discovery and uncertain risk. On Monday, I actually left 2 hours earlier to go to a job fair in this zoo in my neighborhood but I was only there for 5 minutes because it was only there to turn in applications and I already finish mine 2 days earlier. I thought there was going to be interviews but I only needed to turn in my application. I felt a little bad afterwords because I left 2 hours earlier from one of my classes and was only there for 5 minutes.

The next day, the executive chef from that same zoo came into my hospitality supervision class to talk about the job offers at the zoo and how to be successful in there. I'm not sure if its a positive or negative because at the job fair I was wearing a nice shirt and dress pants, but at my class, I was wearing a Indiana University t-shirt with a leather jacket and jeans. Tell you the truth, I almost choked on my iced coffee to here he was here to talk about the job offers. Luckily the chef said that I have a good chance of getting hired but the job is very intense and might involve me to work as late as 2:00 a.m. Luckily I have the drive to go to the limit of my full ability to fulfill my job as chef/server/cook.

Wednesday was my first time to take care of 3 tables at once. It was a little calm but still busy because we were short handed. During the service, I was taking  drink orders and ,being the over confident server as I am, I attempted to memorize the orders. Unfortunately,when I got to the back, I forgot what the all four of them ordered. Suddenly, I started to panic about what I should do. So I did the one riskiness moves in the industry, I picked up the 3 orders I knew what they wanted and serve the 3rd drink to the guest I forgot to see if i got it right. When I served it to them, I was right and got the fourth drink out with no problem. I was relived and lucky but from that point on, I write down every order I take. So the morel of that story is to write everything down even if you don't want to.

After my Thursday class, I have officially started my spring break, so there wouldn't be anymore adventures from the college this week. Luckily, I am working on a new article, so there would still be more dinner in the dorm goodness. I will also be working on my cooking show project for those who are curious were I'm at. As soon as I figure out how I can upload videos to YouTube, I would probably get started soon. So for now, I bid you a-do.

Semester 2, Week 6: Week of Redemption.....Sucess!!!

   This week was all about redemption from the week before and I have finnally achived my goal. This week I have redeemed myself from last weeks poor performence.

  For monday, I made mushrooms from potatos. Now some people will think that would be imposible to do but I managed to make 100 mushrooms in one morning and I did it with an apple corer and a small paring knife. In fact I think I will show you in C.C.S when it gets up on youtube. On wednesday, I served the chefs table at the dinning room and I was going around like a worrisom tornado of service by clearing tables, serving drinks, and explaining the menu. I felt like mush as I decended on to my bed that night but felt good after a good nights work. To my luck, I also didnt have my class on thursday and that gave me extra time to get my things ready for my project.

  I'm also starting to play guitar again and I was thinking about writing my own song for this project Im doing for one of my classes on monday. Im not the best but I did had some great works from the past so I can have a good chance that it will rock.

  So that is all for now, but I will bring you more news of my progress and other future events. I bid you a-do.