Ramblings
Step outside this evening to round up the outdoor cats for the night and was met by the many voiced chorus of the Pacific Tree Frog. Have I mentioned that the Tree Frogs are back? I wish I could really record the overwhelming sound that comes from a creature so small. I recorded a little bit of their calls last year, but there’s no way to really appreciate it unless you stand in the middle of a couple hundred male frogs all trying to outdo each other.
Culinary class yesterday was exceptional. Kitchen Fundamentals, This was the second class I’ve taken from Chef Thompson, one of the primary chef/instructors at the school and I enjoy him more each time. He’s a talker. He warned us at the start of the class that he’d probably run the class over time and he managed to turn what was supposed to be three hour class into a four hour class. I actually had more hands on work with a chef’s knife in this class than in the Knife Skills class last week. A bit of everything, including roasting peppers, learning to do the little wrist flip thing you see cooks do while sauteing. We had chopped onions (using the same technique I mentioned last week) and then sauteed them in a little oil over *very* hot gas stoves, attempting to flip and keep most of the onions in the skillet. I did pretty good, as I’ve worked on the flip for some time, but others weren’t as adept. There were lots of onions on floors and stoves… 
I’m glad the Consumer Class students don’t have to clean up after themselves. Finished the class, breading and cooking up *huge* chicken breasts. The more I take classes at Oregon Culinary Institute, the more I want to go full time. Soon…
Not much knitting the past couple of day because of work and classes, but I’ve picked up stitches on the second sleeve and given a couple free hours I should be able to finish it and then finish the neck and the little sweater will be complete.
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