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This morning, the skills development class consists of peeling grapefruit and oranges with our knives, and sectioning them, both the fancy way and the utilitarian way. We also discuss the technique for hard boiling eggs, with a bath of ice water for cooling.
In class, we make 3 different soups with a base we cooked yesterday. It is a thickened mixture of onions, carrots, and celery, called mire poix. Two of the soups go in a pot to be served for lunch, and we share the third soup called "black box". The name comes from a test given to cooks, where they are required to use all the ingredients in a black box to make a soup. We are able to use any ingredients available to us in the kitchen.
There is an interesting thing happening through the student union of Clark
College. Several times a month they give away free pizza or free hamburgers to the students. This food is apparently ordered and served from an outside source. Because the event is held in the auditorium next to the dining room, it slows the food purchases in the cafeteria, of everything but desserts. We scramble to keep desserts on the line. Today they go through three trays of carrot cake, three trays of banana cake, three trays of zuccini cake, one tray of cheese cake with strawberry sauce, and a tray of hastily prepared vanilla pudding.