Recently we've come in and found ourselves in the midst of full-out catering. The whole dining room gets rented out, we have a set menu and the whole class works to put out several served to everyone simultaneously. Recipes were, er, 'fluid,' so they're not included here but I did have a few spare moments to take some pictures which you can see below.
Prep work, ah, lovely prep work.
Pots simmering on the stovetop soon before we set up for service.
The finished product right before it goes out. A consomme with a braised meat. The accoutrements: mustard, cornichons, tuiles, pickled onions and salt. Kenny slicing the meat just before plating.
Kitchen Toro is a culinary student's 10-month education in the classroom kitchens of the French Culinary Institute, experimenting in the home kitchen and exploring the NY culinary world (and beyond) whenever possible. My earliest travels were via the ingredients in the kitchen: my mother’s Italian-American kitchen in Long Island, my Polish-American grandmother’s kitchen in rural Massachusetts and when my family moved to Hong Kong, our cook, Ah-Hing’s kitchen. Watching these women cook, I developed an adventurous palate and a passion for food and cooking which I decided to follow professionally. I began a 10-month, thrice-weekly Classic Culinary Arts program at the FCI in January 2006 in pursuit of my passion for food in the kitchen and on the page. I started Kitchen Toro in April to chronicle my culinary adventures.
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