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May 20, 2005

CULINARY EXTRAVAGANZA

This evening, intead of having class as usual, our class was assigned to help with this quarter's culinary extravaganza. This is a big production put on the Thursday of Week Seven during every quarter. There are cooking competitions (different categories each quarter), gobs of food and desserts and then a whole heck of a lot of dishes to wash.

The categories for tonight included 1) melon carving; 2) ice carving; 3) cold soups; 4) red white & blue desserts; 5) ice cream; and 6) picnic-style chicken. I didn't get any pictures of the desserts or the ice cream as they were taste-tested and had disappeared before I got outside to the extravaganza.

I arrived at class this evening having absolutely no clue as to what tonight would hold. I knew our Chef-Instructor would be busy with the activities but I didn't know that we would end up completely blowing off our menu for tonight to run the show.

When I arrived to class, Chef was trying to talk a couple of people in my class into entering the melon carving contest. The Alien and the Pirates ship melon entries were the result of his begging. Jeff, a classmate, at about 6pm decided that he wanted to enter in the Picnic Chicken category and seeing that he only had one hour to get the plate done he asked me to help. We breaded chicken with breadcrumbs and parmesan cheese and sauted them in a pan. Then tossed the breaded chicken with some diced tomatoes and placed on top of a bed of fettucine with a basil pesto sauce.

And we WON! Not bad for a last minute decision to enter the contest. I wish I would have known about tonight before hand because I would have made the watermelon ice cream that I used to make with my Aunt Ruth and entered into the contest. Oh well, there will be another Culinary Extravaganza on August 25th and I will be watching to see what the categories are and I might try to enter in the competition. I've already warned my parents about this date, and if anybody else wants to come, the extravaganza is open to anybody and a lot of good food.

Posted by FutureFoodTVStar at May 20, 2005 12:50 AM

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