21 july - 24 july 2011mountain bike race

21 July 2011- today i made poached pears for the first time, it was really interesting, because i have poached an egg before, but there is so much more that can be done then just eggs or pears, i poached them in red wine, raisins, capers and cinnamon, i also made a bechemel sauce, that i used for an Alfreda for the pasta being used to carbo load at the mountain bike race being held, with the bechemel, i pan fried mushrooms and ham, which was added and used as the pasta sauce, i also needed to make curry mince for the vetkoeks that were going to be sold

22 July 2011- i set up a kitchen at caravan park today, it took most of the day, but was really fun, we had to transport all the equipment, utensils, cleaning materials and tables from the kitchen, it was really fun working today, it is a change to come out of the kitchen sometimes

23 July 2011- we were still working at the mountain bike race in caravan park, where we sold hot dogs, boerewors rolls, prego rolls, pap and potjie, breakfast rolls and there was a beer garden, we even sold coffee and tea.

24 July 2011-today i went back in the kitchen after clearing up all the caravan park equipment and cleaning, Jay-Dee a proficiency student working with me in the kitchen, was getting bored of not knowing how to garnish salads, so i started showing him basic ways of garnishing by using onions(cut to the shape of a protea), cucumbers or baby marrow(cut to look like a leaf), tomatoes (peeled to look like roses) and pineapple leaves were also used, with this he couldn't stop thinking of how to garnish his next salad, which shows passion.