"food is our common ground, a universal experience"

Hey yall!
It has only been a week since my last post this time but so much has happened! For starters, last weekend was crazy with work - I did three events! We had friday off from school but i was up early to work to prep for the crazy weekend. On friday night we had a private dinner party, and we get to the house and my chef says ok you got it, ill pick you up when you are done. he just left me! and it was GREAT! I made a baby mache salad with baked goat cheese and a peach champagne vinnagrette. The main was a purple potato crusted halibut with herbed polenta and black truffle oil. For dessert we had a lemon sabayon tart with a honey marscapone. It was all so delicious! Then saturday morning we got there real early to prep for two 100+ lunches we were catering. The first was a corporate party with 130 people, and we made 3 different kinds of sliders (italian sausage, vegetarian, and beef), smoked tri tip with my homemade bbq sauce, roasted vegetable orzo, jalapeno corn bread, veggies with a green goddess dip, baby greens salad with goat cheese, pears, and candied walnuts, and bangin choc chip cookies and lemon bars. And thats not it! For the SAME DAY for a memorial we made a whole other batch of food i could go on and on about! So we prepped all the food, then Chef dropped three of us off at the party and we ran that on our own while he went and dropped the other food at the memorial. It was a CRAZY weekend, but intense kinda hard fun if you know what i mean, and a great experience.
So monday was our first day finally in the kitchen! Every day from 7 to 130 we have meat fabrication and id, which is basically a butchery class. To give you an idea, the first day we did chicken and learned how to do all the different cuts, how to debone, etc. Tuesday and wednesday were beef, today was veal, and tomorrow is pork. All I do is manhandle meat all day but its really interesting - to finally see where those strips and chops come from on the animal and how they all fit together is fascinating. So im on my feet all morning, and then twice a week i go from school to work - basiclly on my feet from 7 am to midnight! This weekend we only have one event tho so it will be good to sleep :).
I have to run to work now, but I will update more this weekend because BIG things are coming! until then, eat well yall!
<3 Coco