Sixth Week Winter Quarter

We are concentrating on artistic creativity with food in theory practice. We make little figures out of hard boiled eggs, with various carved vegetables for the appendages. A hollowed out orange becomes a chicken decoration for a plate of fruit.
I am spending my cooking time making vegetarian soup, a gallon at a time. George shows me how to set up and use the smoker, to smoke marinated vegetables to be used in a soup. When we plugged it in to try it inside, people kept yelling "something is burning"! We take the smoker outside to keep the smell out of the kitchen. I have to wear a jacket to check on the food or shut it down, because it's cold outside.
There is some freezing weather in the early morning, so Merlin drives me to school and picks me up afterwards, a couple of days this week.