Center of the Plate- Tuesday 9/1/2009

Hey ya'll. Sorry I didn't blog about my class last night. I was so dead tired! Class was kind of disappointing because we were doing pasta. The groups made homemade pasta. My group made mushroom ravioli. I love mushroom ravioli. But I can't tell ya'll how to make it because I had nothing to do with it! I spent the entire class making a basic cream sauce. I started out making a small batch for my group. Then my chef asked me to make a batch for the whole class. That was not quite as easy. Instead of making it with 4 TBSP of butter, 4 TBSP of flour, and 2 cups of milk, I used 16 TBSP of butter and flour, and 8 cups of milk. That much has to cook a lot longer in order to get the floury taste out. It was very close to being a success by the end of the class. So since I had to stay and stir the sauce almost constantly, I didn't get to be involved in making the pasta. So that was a disappointment. And in the end, the rest of the class didn't use my sauce because it took the entire class period to cook it! So now it's just sitting there, in the reach in fridge, all lonesome and unused. Hopefully tomorrow I will get to do something productive. I will hopefully blog about class tomorrow. But if I am too tired (cooking wears a person out!) I will blog Friday.