Foodie: n. A person who has an ardent or refined interest in food; a gourmet

"in the culinary fast lane, where surprises are expected and foodies beg to be thrilled"

So from previous posts, you might remember the cheese poster for Humboldt Fog? Well Cypress Grove was kind enough to send me a tshirt and food carrier after seeing the post, how great is that! So once again yall, check out their cheeses they are exquisite.
So today was the final for meat fab, which I feel really good about. After the test we spent the rest of the classes making sausage! It was actually REALLY cool. Like, we cubed and heavily seasoned the meat, ground it, emulsified it, and then stuffed it into casings and hand twisted it to make link sausages! Nothin beats fresh sausage. We also got to try the corned beef we have been making for the last few days and it was DELICIOUS, so tender like butter. So now that meat fab is over, tomorrow morning we start fish fab. Which im concerned about. Those of you who know me know that i do not care for fish, and since i dont eat it i dont know a darn thing about it. But it will be ok, its good to learn and I really do want to at least be able to appreciate fish, plus after fish fab we are on to skills one! Big stuff :)
We had another special presentation today (we have about one a month - the first was the beer one i mentioned in earlier posts). Todays was on PacoJet, a new wave "icecream maker". I put that in quotations because it is so much more. It basically makes icecream in THREE MINUTES, but can be used to make peanut butter, pastes, and really cool molecular gastronomy tricks - playing with textures. For example, he got the juice from a cucumber, and put it into the PacoJet and came up with frozen cucumber powder! One of the great things about this place is being so in the now with the culinary world, which includes great presentations on new wave technology which really does have a ton to do with our success in this industry.
I hope everyones doing well! In other news i bought my plane tickets home for thanksgiving, Im real excited! Thats all for now, but big things BIG things are happening next week so keep your eyes posted :)
eat well! <3 coco
So since i have been putting some hours under my belt, i have saved enough to finally go buy another digital camera which means lots of pics so yall can get a visual of the settup here are headed your way!