Food Porn

Here are a few pictures of some of the dishes I've been making.

Enjoy.

Canard roti a'l'orange

BBQ, PBR and "Fair and Balanced" coverage

Mavis the sheep

It’s 4:45am on a Saturday morning and I’m dragging my hungover ass out of bed. It feels like I only got into bed an hour ago, when in fact I got at least 2 hours of sleep. I’m “industry” now, I don’t need sleep, a pot of coffee and a few 5-hour Energy’s and I’m good to go. Too bad I don’t have either!

Making Ice Cream in Hell

Chocolate Souffle

Today was one of the hottest days so far, the temperature outside was 97 degrees with over 50% humidity. In addition to this, we are in a kitchen with no A/C and 20 ovens running all day!

This has been the situation all week which in itself is manageable if not for the fact that it’s “Desert and pastry“ week! Pastries aren’t a strong point for most people in Culinary Arts. Lots of respect to people who can bake, it takes a special talent for the anal, to do well at it.

pondre, les oeufs putain!

Ceufs Farcis Chimay

Today  was quite possibly the most disgusting day of cooking so far! I went through 300 eggs today!! Well maybe only about 30, but that’s enough!!

This food is Offal!!

Lamb Tongues

Today was Offal day. For those that don’t know what Offal is, they’re organs. Not the kind that you play at church, but the kind that filters impurities into urine and produce bile.

In addition to having to cook these usually discarded parts, Chef Pascal was away and we had a substitute teacher, Chef Nick from the Ukraine. Just as I got used to the French accent, now I have to decipher a Ukrainian one!

We prepared 4 dishes; Pan Fried Sweetbreads with Creamy Goat Cheese Polenta, Lamb Tongue with Potato Salad, Sautéed Calf’s Liver and Sautéed Kidneys.

Its Sunday morning so don't expect much!

Ok, I’m getting it from all sides! “Todd, you haven’t updated your Blog”, “Todd, I want to know more about what you’re doing in school and less about how much of a miserable bastard you are”, “Todd, if you were to die and come back as a Spice Girl which one would you be”?


Listen people, I’m in school, not on vacation! You think I’m just sitting around all day coming up with witty things to say for your amusement. It’s true that my world revolves around you (you know who you are) and I live to have you hang on my every word, but for 7 hours a day I have an angry Frenchman shouting and pointing an 18” blade at me! The rest of my time is divided between consuming beverages at Onieal’s with my classmates and studying for what have become bi-weekly tests! In addition, apparently one of you bastards has to come to NYC F’ing every week!

I Hate IKEA!!

It’s been an extremely busy first couple of weeks. Between finding and furnishing an Apt. and having my first week of class I haven’t really had time to do much updates. I also have my first test on Tuesday so I’ve been studying all weekend (well most of the weekend, I do have to make time for beer). Anyway, I’m taking a little break from the books and will try and fill you in on what’s been going on.