FOOOOOOOD!

Day... 8? maybe. I forget.

I do not have pictures at the moment... BUUUUUT. My favorite places to eat are (in no particular order):

1. Buca Di Beppo. YUUUUUM.
2. Red Iguana. YUMMY!
3. My own house. :) ...even when it's just pb&j
4. Little ghetto places because they always have the BEST food.

...and if it's time for dessert then it's this Caribbean place with a Guava caramel dessert. yummy squared. ha.

So since that was short... let me tell you a little bit about my day. It is related to food, after all. Today in American Regional we were talking about the South. That's right, BARBECUE! Our recipes for today were:
* Carolina pulled pork sammich
* Slaw
* Fried Green Tomatoes
* Roasted Red Pepper sauce
* Potato salad
* Banana Pudding

My group decided to split things up since a lot of it took a long time to prep/cook/rest or what have you. Jess did our pork. She made the dry rub, the barbecue sauce and put the pork in the oven. She was also in charge of basting it every so often. She also made the roasted red pepper sauce and mayonnaise for the potato salad and slaw. Good deal. She did a lot and worked hard. Shayna only made the banana pudding. That's it. In a 4 hour class... AND she didn't even make angel food cake for it... just used nilla wafers. I was getting Frrrrrustrated.
I set to work on making the slaw and the potato salad. I made the MOST BEAUTIFUL hard boiled eggs I have ever seen... there was not a single hint of that green/grey ring around the yolk... and they were cooked PERFECTLY. I was quite proud of myself to be honest. :) So I did all the prep work for those... and there was a lotttt of prep work. By the time I was done with that Jess had finished the mayonnaise for me so I could put them together. I got them in the fridge and started getting our station cleaned up. We were a little behind on dishes so I gathered them up and washed them. Then it was time to start the tomatoes. I made the marinade and sliced the tomatoes. We didn't know they were supposed to marinate for about a half hour... so we didn't quite have time for that. But it was all good. I then breaded them... it said just to stick them straight from the marinade to the flour/corn meal mixture... so I did. But then they didn't look like they had enough breading...so I double breaded them. GOOD CHOICE. The groups that didn't... had soggy and not very pretty tomatoes. MINE WERE BEAUTIFUL!!! :) :) Chef thought they were great too. :) He liked ALL of my dishes today!!! (even though my red cabbage in my slaw bled...so it was the color of Barney... he said it still tasted good). It's days like today that remind me why I am actually in culinary school. I know accidents happen and I'm at school to learn... but it just feels so great to do a good job sometimes!

So... I will upload pictures later... I'm too tired to do it right now. Even though I get to sleep in for an hour because I have class at 8 instead of 7 tomorrow!!! I never thought I would be excited for an 8 am class... let alone think of it as my "late" class. but so is life I guess..