Fascinating Moab, UT.
“This” is definitely a “destination”… a smorgasbord of rides, photography opportunities, just being amongst it all can be overwhelming and glad that we will have the time to explore it all… versus just blowing by at a multitude of frames per second.
Strangest weather here, 80 in the sun by the afternoon, 20 at 6 am… 60 degrees difference within every 24 hours! Dress up and take it...

back at school , its gone by really fast. we have been doing practicals all last week and this week and are currently in assessement mode at the moment
revisiting the classics soups and stocks , which for me is a bit like doing them in my sleep in some ways , but its been great and im just loving it. Will post some photos on the weekend of different things i have been doing . In just over 2 weeks we will be getting in to the pastry side of things ........ i so seriously cant wait and have...

Leaving Texas…
We are in Moab today… as soon as we made that eastbound turn on 550, a bit north of Albuquerque, big empty and vast spaces presented themselves and suddenly it was as if another new page of this Journey had been turned. Peaceful, calm and serene, mountain tops covered with snow, cattle grazing in search of green patches, it was as we had never left the West. We stopped many times as the weather...

To Albuquerque, NM
Try spelling that word without looking!
We end up using all three free nights of camping the City of Slaton gave us as we had to regroup yesterday. What is regroup? Just a feeling that we are caught up with everything including replying e mails, baking some Treats, cleaning, filing pictures, roasting coffee and… taking a nap! That is “regroup”!!!
A bit of snowing, a bit of wind...

For Basic, we just broke down 2 chickens using different cuts. Nothing else. We are supposed to have a written mid term next week, but we have only really covered 5 topics--so nothing too crazy.

For Garde Manger, we made different kinds of sandwiches. I think chef and a number of us were disappointed with the results. For example, our team made a lobster salad sandwich. BUT we were literally given HOT DOG BUNS to put it on.

WHAT'S WORSE...we didn't use imitation...