Sauces

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These past two days in Fundamentals we have been making sauces. 6 to be exact. Thursday we made Classic Tomato Sauce and Espanole Sauce which is apparently never used to sauce anything its a base for other sauces. Anywho it was our 1st real day of working in our teams, there are 3 of us and 1 didnt have her recipes so she just kinda got stuff and cleaned while me and the other girl preped and did the cooking. we did get told at one point we were behind in the prep, which yeah we could have gotten things together quickly had it not been our 1st day and we knew where stuff was. so we got the sauces together but class was over so he had to chill them and continue cooking today.
So after we walk into class we get our sauces back on the stove to finish simmering, my partner makes more roux for her sauce (the Espanole) since she didnt make enough the day before. as our sauces simmered we gathered the items so mayo and Beurre Blanc and we were much quicker today for 1 we kinda knew what to expect and 2 there weren't alot of ingredients but again the one chick didn't have her cards, and she left early which was fine with me than me and my partner each made a sauce. Next came time to make Double Cream Sauce and Hollindaise Sauce, so again we each took a sauce (I made the double cream) and in the mean time we finished our sauces from the day before and tasted them and had them tasted by Chef and they were good the only sucky part is we had to through them away we weren't allowed to take any home sad face. So again we made these rich sauces and I tasted each sauce which is big since I do not like mayo or cream sauces at all really and by the end of class i just felt like i was sweating mayo even though i maybe had a combined total of a teaspoon of sauce(s). But the best part is Chef said my sauce was good and well balanced and very nice and smooth happy face. She also told us in a few weeks as our mid term we will have to make the sauces all by ourselves which is fine with me i like working/cooking alone that way i know its done just how i want it done and no one is in my way.
I have been running only 2 days so far this week but hey its a start not to mention i know im not eating as much as i used to so hopefully it will net me a loss on Tuesday which will be my weigh in day since its my day off and i can do it in the a.m.
Next week we are making soups it is going to be soo frickin hot uggg and i need to buy inserts for my shoes i can stand on my feet for hours no problem so long as my shoes are comfy and these are not i dont know how people wear crocs all day. Well im sleepy and have 4 hours each of driving and football tomorrow so im gonna try and sleep and not dream of sauces like i did lastnight.
-EGG