Life at home in Michigan is very different than living on campus.  My house is quiet, I don’t have to share my bedroom, and the best one; no security cameras in the hallways!  Although I do miss home and how life is there, I love being on campus and living in the resident halls.

Right now, I live in Triangalo Hall, which is an upperclassman only residen... Read More

For our breads and rolls class, it is time for our mid-term project.  Our assignment was to research any type of native bread that we were not going to make in class.  The class is only half over and already we have made 60 different types of bread!  So, finding a unique bread to research was a little difficult.

I came up with the idea of making

Just like at any other college, high school, or any other type of school; each teacher is different.  Each chef here has their own style of teaching, their own rules, and very different personalities.  When I started my first lab, I already knew my way around a kitchen.  How to clean, have a sense of urgency, skills, etc.

The first day of classes I was nervo... Read More

Production of breads and rolls is three weeks in, and class has been fairly monotonous.  Each morning we stumble into class and sit down for a lecture, which is sometimes followed by a quiz.  Once we are done with lecture it is time to start our day.

Mise-en-place
We are to mise-en-place (pre-measure and scale out every ingredient on th... Read More

In our second week of making breads and rolls we moved onto rich breads.  We started making rye’s, brioche, sweetbreads, and focaccia.  For the first day of making focaccia, our table was placed in charge of preparing all of the topping.  We had several different types of cheese, onions, peppers, zucchini, and herbs.

My classmate Ericka began by choppi... Read More

So Ericka and I are finally all moved into our apartment/dorm.  We really didn’t think it would all fit but surprisingly it did!  We decided to buy a couch, which we had to take the door off the hinges to get it in!  but, now that everything has been unpacked, and put out the room feels right at home already!

Here are some pictres of the place when we ... Read More

I am from a fairly small town in Michigan, and the restaurant choices were not very vast.  After traveling to many different cities and states, I got to see (and taste) some pretty great to pretty bad restaurants.  So, when I moved out to Denver last year to start school I was excited to try a lot of new restaurants and see how they stack up.  While I have found so... Read More

School just started and my first week of class is over!  I have one lab right now; Production of Breads and Rolls.  As the name states, the class is devoted to making breads and rolls.  Go figure.

On the first day of class, all we did was have a very long lecture and a tour of the class.  We were even fed by one of the other culinary labs, and seeing as it ... Read More

I was, thankfully, able to shove everything into my car and still have room for both Ericka and myself to sit somewhat comfortably.  My skis were perched on the top of the passenger seat headrest.  “Well, it’s kinda like a headrest”, Ericka said as she plopped herself in the seat.

We left bright and early that morning, finally hitting the ro... Read More

I feel that it goes without saying that if you want to perform accurate and with speed in a kitchen, you should know your way around one and where everything goes.  Well, apparently some people at my school just didn’t get that memo.

It wasn’t until my second trimester at JWU that I started my first lab.  Nervous that not knowing the kitchen very ... Read More