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| So as of three weeks ago I started working at a second restaurant in Warrenton. The Black Bear Bistro. It is nice. You should come check us out. The address is 34 Main Street. I am still working at Napoleon's. That is going. Just going. People have been quitting. Chef Todd quit to go start Black Bear Bistro. Justin was tapped to take over control of the kitchen. Him and Allan fought a lot so he (Justin) quit last week. He is now working at the Bistro. Haha! Kitchen drama. Napoleon's sure had that. Supposedly there is a guy starting today at Napoleon's who is to be the executive chef. We shall see how that goes. I work there tomorrow and then go work at the Bistro in the evening.
I have three weeks of school left and then I am done. Yes! Can't wait. Graduation will be in December.
I like this CD a lot. Matthew Perryman Jones. Very good musician. I saw him on the Ten Out of Tenn Christmas Tour last year. I want to see him at a solo show. The problem is though I am so busy working at two restaurants that I hardly have any free time. No time to go to shows. This is not good. Well, I guess it is good for the paychecks but not good for going to shows.
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| I was tested yesterday at work and passed. I had cut NY strips and fillet Mignon the other day. There was some odd pieces left over that couldn't be portioned correctly. So yesterday Tony, the owner, wanted me to make something out of the scraps for him and Mark, the GM. I'm not good yet at making something off the fly. Haven't been a chef long enough. I'm still learning stuff all the time. So I did something that was quick and easy. I took the pieces and coated them with house-made Cajun spices and flour and pan seared them. Then I deglazed the pan with white wine and put it in the oven to finish off. I also got some mashed potatoes cooking to go along with it. While I was in the midst of making that an order came in. So I was rushing around for a bit. It was all good though. I got the order out in good time. My off-the-cuff Cajun NY Strip pieces with white wine pan drippings and mashed potatoes turned out quite well. Tony told me today that he really liked it and we need to sit down sometime and I tell him how I made it. Who knows...it might go on the soon-to-be new and improved menu. Tony was wanting me to create something for the menu. I was thinking about making a potted beer and cheddar cheese dip for happy hour, but maybe my spur of the moment dish will make it on.
I hardly ever go outside barefooted. I did this evening and stepped on a bee. Grr! This is not good because I am very allergic. My foot is already quite swollen up and will be worse in the morning. I am scheduled to work tomorrow. We have a party scheduled for lunch. D'oh! I can see me hobbling around tomorrow. Good thing I won't be alone in the kitchen or else it would be worse than it already will be.
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Every Fight is a Food Fight When You Are a Cannibal
by Safari So Good
Yesterday the youth from the church, what few we are, went to Loren and Ruthie's house for a Memorial Day party party thing. We played games. Ate good food...grilled chicken, baked, beans, and mac 'n cheese. Held the baby. Talked. Played more games. It was fun.
I have class tonight. A math class. Boo. :( But it should be rather easy because it is just a basic math class. I am also signed up for the externship class. That will be easy because I will do it at Napoleon's and I have been working there since mid-March. Those are my final two classes. Woohoo! 10 more weeks then I am done. Graduation is in December.
Chef Todd is not going to be at Napoleon's for the majority of this week. So I think I will be by myself in the kitchen tomorrow and Thursday. Let's hope I don't get in the weeds. I know how to run the kitchen by myself but if a lot of people come in at one time it's rather strenuous having to cook all the food by yourself.
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Lost Senses, More Innocence
by Nodes of Ranvier
The other day I went with Galen to the Hylton Memorial Chapel to see Mark Lowry, LordSong, and Stan Whitmire. I didn't really want to go because I don't like Southern Gospel music. I would have much rather have gone to Fredericksburg to see Parkway Drive, Stick to Your Guns, Mychildren Mybride, and Advent but Galen said he would pay for my ticket to the Mark Lowry show. Free is always good for this poor college kid and I didn't really have the money for the other, much better show. The best part of the concert was when Mark Lowry did some stand-up comedy stuff. Other than that I didn't really like it. So after the concert Galen was hungry. He said let's go to McDonald's. I'm was thinking yuck but who was I to say where we eat because I was just the tag-along. So he ordered us both 2 cheeseburgers. After eating those little pieces of fat I felt sick to the stomach when I got home. I am taking a Nutrition and Menu Planning class and we had just recently watched Supersize Me in class so I know what is them cheeseburgers. Fat, sodium (salt), and cholesterol. That's pretty much it. Fast food in and of itself is not bad food. What's bad about it though is that it is loaded with fat, sodium, and cholesterol. So that is why I felt sick after eating those cheeseburgers. I don't usually eat fast food because it is rather disgusting. There is so much better food available. My body is not used to having that much bad stuff in there all at one time. I felt like Morgan Spurlock when he said in Supersize Me while eating a double quarter-pounder supersize meal, "See, now's the time of the meal when you start getting the McStomach ache. You start getting the McTummy. You get the McGurgles in there. You get the McBrick, then you get the McStomach ache. Right now I've got some McGas that's rockin'. My arms... I feel like I've got some McSweats goin'. My arms got the McTwitches going in here from all the sugar that's going in my body right now. I'm feeling a little McCrazy...I'm dying. God, that looks so nasty. It's making me puke."
There is this woman in my Hospitality Supervision class who is a manger at a Firehook Bakery. She loves to bring food in to class. Last week she brought in some sort of desert that she had gotten at Cheeseburger in Paradise there in Woodbridge. And she brought in some scones from her bakery. I'm not really hungry in class because I usually eat before I leave for school. But this woman pretty much forces me to eat the food. She begs and begs. It's really annoying. So I eat the food. The next morning I wokee up at 3:30am with chills and a fever. I thought I had the swine flu or something. I was sick all that day. I really wasn't too much worries about the swine flu, but Dad really was. So he took me to the doctor's office. Turns out I had food poisoning. Nobody else in my family got food poisoning. Ahaa! I think I got it from the food in class.
Tonight the woman brought in cheesecake because one of our classmate's birthday was today. She said to me, "Eat a big piece." I got a little piece. Hahaha! She also gave me a big chocolate covered coconut macaroon to eat. I ate the cheesecake but could only eat about half of the macaroon. Those things are disgusting. For one thing, I don't really like coconut. For another thing, coconut is loaded with saturated fat. Saturated fat is really bad for you. Then the other people in the class were hungry so we ordered pizza. Of course they said to me, "Eat. Eat." So I end up eating two pieces. Oh, and I drank a Monster Energy because I was rather tired after having worked three days in a row. A while later I started feeling sick...and I know why. All that stuff I ate was fattening. So from now on I won't eat food like that. Only healthy food for me, please and thank you. Besides the fact that junk food, fast food, etc... isn't good for me and makes me fat, it makes me sick. No more. No more eating that woman's food in class either. Thankfully the class is soon over. We take the final next week. Woohoo!
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| I'm all alone. Everybody went to Kansas for Tryphena's graduation. They left yesterday morning. Not coming back until Sunday evening. Last night I had school. Today it didn't rain...wow, I know...so I mowed the jungle, er, grass. Still not done. Gotta mow more tomorrow after work.
I didn't feel like cooking for myself tonight so I went to Pho Gourmet in Manassas. *side note: I forgot that there was a singing group at church tonight. Oops. Oh well. I was mowing grass rather late.* Me likes the Vietnamese food. I got the fried, I think it was pork, over lots of noodles with some veggies. It was good. I was happily eating my noodles and pork, with chop sticks mind you, when I realized that the noodles were kinda dry. So I put some hot sauce and soy sauce on it. Ate some more. Hrmm... A little better. Then I remembered the little bowl that came with my pork and noodles. Aahaa! Fish sauce...with some carrots in it. Fish sauce. Yes! So yucky, but so good. I dumped some on the noodles. Much better. Then I dumped the rest of it all over the noodles. Yum! Somehow fermented fish juices makes things taste so much better.
So I gotta work tomorrow evening. I work Sunday too because of the Mother's Day brunch. In the evening the church is having a mother's appreciation thing. The men are making food. I am going to make dolmathes. Stuffed grape leaves. Good stuff.
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