Level 3 is NO joke. Wow- I swear I look at the clock at 9 am and the next thing I know I’ve been cooking straight through till 2pm! We...

Going into my third month and wanting to pass out thinking about how in a month I'll be half way through with my program. With every new...

Level 2 final here I come! We took the final written exam, which I tend to hit a home run on (got a 97%- only question I missed was an...

Breaking Chef news: Chef Dominique shaved OFF his mustache! He no longer has the Captain Hook facial hair going on. I hope it grows back...

Three words: Flounder Your Way. At around 2 am last night, I woke up and all I remember is that I was thinking about how I was going to...

We’ll we finally landed in Italy today and for the most part I was pretty impressed (we didn’t actually travel there for all those...

Bonjourno everyone! Today felt like I was preparing myself for a little trip to Italy with Mushroom Risotto, Meat sauce, making our very...

Monday Morning, but yet I didn’t feel so sluggish. Maybe it’s because I knew that I only had half a day of cooking again. Not sure what I...

Another half day of cooking and nutrition. Today we ventured into the world of vegetarians. We made ONLY vegetarian dishes (which I am...

Getting back into the culinary groove took some time, not going to lie. I shadily forgot how to cook the onions al blanc (simple as a...

I don’t know if I am sad or happy about the fact that today was our last day of pastries. Now it’s back to culinary and I’m a bit scared...

Sorry for the delay. I was busy attending the International Culinary Center Career fair where I met some fabulous potential...

Two weeks into level 2 already and this is culinary gig is flying by. The fact that I’ve almost been here two months is hilarious, but my...

Mousses and Soufflés were the name of the game today! All it really takes to make is egg whites, flour, butter, sugar, flavoring (cheese,...

Day two of pastries and I’m still high from all the sugar. There was a point in the day where I was licking the soufflé mixture out of...

For the first two mornings of the level, I would bring chef his coffee from the machine. I could have sworn that he said no cream and a...

I’m in an egg coma. I have never worked with so many eggs in my entire life. As a class, we must have gone through 20 dozen eggs and I’m...

Back from my visit at Harvard to see Stephen (hence why there was no day 24… sorry) and I was feeling quite chipper this morning. Chef...

Roger Rabbit. Bugs Bunny. Meggie my pet rabbit (who we had to give away when Nataly was born because she starting biting us…thanks a lot...

Every morning, we come into the kitchen and have to choose an “island” to work out with a partner. Depending on what time you come in...