16 may - 22 may 2011 offal and lemon week for me

16 may - I packed the fridge and freezer today, this day also consisted of a test that i recieved 85 % for, it was a 3 hour test and I thought I did very well, the rest of the day we were off.

17 may - we worked outside making offal, which is all the

 internal organs and edible meat inside the cow, 

we all needed to make something different with our parts, me,

Francois and Bianca worked together and i got a heart and

Bianca got kidneys, she made devil kidneys, which is shallow

frying the kidneys with a lot of chilli, i made a heart stew, 

which consists of cubed and cleaned heart, origanum , red wine 

and many different sautèd vegetables, many of the students liked 

the heart and even Mel complimented my dish, it was very fun, we

all had different parts and after that we cleaned up and went home

18 may -everyone was off because of elections

19 may - I was sent to the academy kitchen today to work with lemons, we never had a chance to make different lemon dishes or products, so chef gave us a chance to make different products consisting of lemons, I made lemon, caramel and vanilla syrup, which was bottled, i also made lemon curd as well as a lemon marmalade, all these products were bottled for future use.

20-22 may - I was on my off weekend and returned home