Lately I’ve been doing research about Portland, OR for our honeymoon. I know you’re thinking that it sounds like we can barley afford a wedding let alone a honeymoon. Would it be selfish of me to purposely have a wedding with only a few family members and no reception so that we can take a nice vacation? I personally don’t think so, and Portland sounds fantastic!
It’s incredible to me how the universe can simply realign itself in a matter of a few days. If you read my previous post you know that at the beginning of this week I was on the verge of a breakdown. Okay, maybe not a breakdown but I was definitely dealing with some issues. Somehow over the course of the week things seemed to have just clicked back into place and I am now faced with the exact opposite scenarios as I was earlier this week.
Coming back from Spring break, I still feel like I need a break. For our vacation Brian and I went down to Orange, Tx (my hometown) for four days to take care of some wedding stuff and hang out with my family. We took engagement photos, met with a cake lady, met with a caterer and met with a few of my mom’s friends and my M.O.H. (Maid of Honor) who have offered to throw a bridal shower for me.
I enjoyed the break and had fun doing wedding stuff, but we didn’t really have a whole lot of time to relax. I’m still working at Freebirds Burritos, unfortunately the job at the bowling alley didn’t work our for me. I returned to work on Saturday to find that I still have the same schedule from when I was working at both places. This schedule has very few hours. I told the GM at Freebirds that I wanted to stay and go back to my schedule of 30 hours per week, but it hasn’t changed. This is a bummer because I really enjoy working at Freebirds; it’s lot’s of fun, but I won’t make enough money here and it will not count as a culinary externship which is required to graduate from TCA. (more…)
Lovely example of a mirror presentation - we did these in class but this is not mine!
I have been extremely busy and apologize for my unexplained hiatus. I have a job now! Yay! I’ve been working at Freebird World Burritos since about the middle of January and I’m still in school at Texas Culinary Academy.
We finished up Proteins class then we had Bake Shop for 3 weeks in February with Valentines day falling right in the middle of it. So Brian got a chocolate box with chocolate truffles inside as a Valentines day gift. Unfortunately, I had food poisoning the week before that, so I didn’t really get to enjoy Valentines day or much of Bake Shop for that matter. We are now finishing up Garde Manger which is a class about cold foods such as salads, dressings, and sandwiches as well as the old techniques of charcuterie or food preservation of the pre-refrigeration era. (more…)