AHHH Vacation

Today is the 1st day of my winter break and boy does it feel good. I have decided to work out my hardest during this time and will go back to school a different person inside and out. While on break the following changes will occur:
My bulldog tooth will be pulled and replaced
I will no longer take shit from anyone without speaking my mind
I will be solid with my diet and exercise
to be completely done with jr. football
the only one that will be a little tough is of course the diet/exercise one since the holidays are here but i am going to try my best.
I have passed all my classes but only have firm grades from 2 of the (B's) I know that next semester will be harder but i am up for it.
Now its time to clean up and make some cookie dough.
-EGG

Finals and new recipes

Thursday was when my finals started. In my Fundamentals class we got to pick a chicken dish with sauce, mashed potatoes, steam veggie, glazed carrots, and carrot soup. The first step was to fabricate the chicken as usual me and one of my table mates broke off to work at our own table, got our chicken and in less than 3 minutes I had taken my half of the chicken off and once Chef checked everyones chicken we were left to our own devises to prepare our food. I started the soup 1st since that would take the longest followed by the chicken now considering this is the 1st time i have ever made it i wasnt even worried, that is until the T.A. came and asked me to write down the temp chicken should be cooked at and this was after I had turned in my chicken, I asked around to see if anyone else had to do this and no one had so i could only think one thing. I had served raw chicken. but I had to finish so I completed all my dishes and was the 2nd to finish so I started dishes and by the time everyone was done she started calling us in 1 by 1 to discuss our dishes and grades. When my time was up i went in and she slowly started going through the dishes which to her all needed more salt. All except my chicken which she said was thee best in the class the only one that wasnt dried out and the sauce was perfect. WHEW!! I told her how panicked the T.A. made me by asking about the temp. She also said I did better than most of my classmates, but she wouldnt tell me my grade since we werent done testing, we still needed to do knife skills and make hollindaise. At the end of class we all gathered together and she was discussing the scores and that no one got a perfect (as we all needed more salt) another student asked if they could hear their grade so she said fine and if we wanted we could hear ours in front of everyone so 56 was perfect the highest score was a 49 I got a 46. Next day we did our sauce and skills test all got perfects on it so I aced my final for that. Not to mention in the middle of class on Friday I left for an hour to take my Servsafe test and still had time to do my sauce when i got back.
Next I have Concepts tomorrow than I have a take home final for my management class and than a written final in Fundamentals and im done with my 1st semester. WHEW!!
Now on to new foods now its nothing real crazy but I made a zucchini bread. I am getting into trying new bread and pie recipes.
This week in honor of it being the last week of the semester I am making Whoopie pies. I am making Gingerbread with candied ginger filling and one called hot cocoa. I think thats it I will try to be better about posting.
-EGG

Gym, School, Work. (G.S.W.)

So I have been a little MIA for a few weeks but I have a good reason. I joined the gym and have been going at least 5 days a week for about an hour each time, I forget how good it feels to hit the treadmill and weights when super frustrated which is what I was last Thursday. Started off as a normal day went to Fundamentals which started with a pop quiz about measurements easy peasy except for everyone else in my group who got all pissy that they didnt know how many ounces are in a cup. One in Baking even said why should she learn them she is taking baking its not important. WHAT! Truely scary. Then we all got to work making chicken this and chicken that, finally learning the tourne cut which is a waste of veggie if you ask me. And here is where it went down hill 2 of the group members just seemed to get dumber as the class progresses they put about 2 inches of oil in a pan even though the teacher said just enough oil to saute the chicken in, then they took forever figuring out how to dreadge some chicken then placed it in the oil (which was in thee largest pan ever) and brought it to the stove. EWWW. and then they couldnt figure out how to fix it and it just got worse from there, they would stand around and wait for someone to tell them to do something but then ask a billion questions on how to do it. Needless to say i was pissed when i left so i hit the gym and got a great workout in and then I didnt go to class on Friday.
Instead we went to Mayahuel a new mexican restaurant in Sacramento and it was great I tried nopales and they were alright tasted like string beans, everything else was great to I had spicy shrimp, hubby the pork ribs, and mr chicken tacos.
Saturday I got to work all day on the truck at the MOFO festival and than a biker party man so much fun I forgot how great it is to work doing something you enjoy. It was from like 9 am- 12am. Sunday we hit the auction and i got some veggies.
Today I baked off 5 kinds of cookies and a new "bar" for an order. Instead of doing what im supposed to be doing which is homework since this week I start taking finals uggg. And tomorrow im supposed to do the mock interview thing for M.S.,&C.D. I do not like this class not because of the teacher or anything I just dont have a desire to be a boss lady. Well I should go now and do a little more homework and go to bed.
-EGG