Day 17

Therese gave me a hot water bottle over the weekend. SHE ROCKS! So now I never go in to bed without it. Trust me it's been cold over here. And this is a pretty old house so when you're not being all nice and toasty in front of the fire, you're god damn freezing your nuts off (sorry Mother).

I'm not sure what happened today, it was one of those collective cock ups when 30 odd people seemed to have missed that they were all supposed to be making Mushroom Soup. Cue much chaos everywhere. Aside from that I had an absolute doddle of a day! Tomoatoe and Basil salad and French Omelette (harder to get right than you think, it really does only take 30 seconds). So I took the opportunity to brush up on some of my techniques that Darina told us we're going to be tested on, I'll scan in the stuff we need to learn later tomorrow, I decided to segment a fruit and make Scones. Honestly you've never seen Scones go so quickly, teachers and staff go mad for them. Out of the 20 odd that I baked, I managed to just grab the last two to bring home for Therese.

I did realise that the course is getting harder, slowly they're upping the ante on what we're cooking. It's gone away from the "you certainly can't mess this up" to the
"if you even slightly over-cook this we'll be able to tell". A case in point being the pan fried fish I've got to fillet and cook. Certainly at home this could be done easy enough, but you've not got the figures of Darina and her team hanging over you pointing out every little fault in what you've done. Stressed? Moi? Nah.

I promise I'll have a recipe for you tomorrow.