Well todays the day!!!!!!!

We started school in feb this year, the first few weeks were so new and so scary yet so exciting. A few weeks in we were given a new timetable and on it it said we would have to in order to pass serve at the silver service restaurant owned and run by the college. Now normally they dont shove first years down there because its a scary place. Most trainees dont see a silver service restaurant as far as working in one in most of their chefs life unless of course that is what you wish to pursue. For me silver service is nice but its not who we are, we have no desire to work for fine dining and probably never will. But the powers that be say that in order to pass the course we must present food at a silver service.

To say that we are scared would be an understatement, this is a world that is foreign to us and normally we wouldnt undertake this till last term if you go on to hosp III. But today for the first time i will be in charge of one of nine dishes and i thought id share the menu with you

Entrees/starters.

King Prawn Salad
Tortellini
Peking Duck

mains

Roast beef
chicken supreme veloute
Sea Fish meuniere

dessert

warmed date pudding
passion fruit pavlova
Crepes St Clements.

One of those will lbe my duty for the night including all accompaniments.

Scary as.

After today we have a few more days in the kitchen and a one more prac exam to do then straight in for a week in silver service and a week in the more comfortable cafe' that they also own, and then if we survive and pass we get our cert II in hospitality wohoooo