Here goes: The beginning of last week (sorry!)

Although it was great to have Monday off last week, Tuesday felt like working on a Sunday. Jonathan was coughing and woke me up at around 2:30 in the morning, which was a good thing because I had to catch up with a bit of homework and study for the week's tests.
5 hours later, I was out the door on my way to school for the day.. sigh...

So, Monday, We learned how to cut a potato up pretty fancy schmancy using these cuts:Cocotte, Fontande and Chateu.

Wednesday was fried chicken day. We each got our own chicken breast which we could season to our liking (I picked cinnamon, cayenne and other secret things) and we had to bread it and fry it. My chef instructor then said to make it smile, not laugh, during the frying process. (logical, don't you think?) We were excused early to judge a salsa contest that was being held a couple doors down in Intro to Garde Manger class. Deelish! One of my classmates, Chong and I stood there and ate our chicken and herb potatoes that Chef Lou made for us as we watched people challenge their tastebuds with these spicy salsas. When we had our turn,we found they were as delicious as they looked! The one I liked best was named "medium hot", so I don't think I could look up the recipe anywhere, but it definately rocked!
Thursday we watched a huge salmon be cut up for us to prepare Salmon en papillote avec Beurre Blanc.

Here is a shot of mine after being cooked to perfection: Joe would call this 'Food Porn."

I had a layer of thinly sliced potatoes only because I knew that this would be the only thing we would eat and I thought I might as weel get some potatoes in it. I am of German descent after all. By the way, it was as good as it looks!