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