School is Kicking My Ass Today

Filed Under: French Culinary Instituteon October 7th, 2009

This morning I didn’t have breakfast. Well I did, but it wasn’t my normal cereal and yogurt.

Our first savory tart for class was an onion tart, topped with walnuts, blue cheese, and tomatoes in a pate birsee. This is essentially what I made last night for a dinner on a pizza with the addition of balsamic vinegar and pears. So I thought I was golden. Golden being the key word. That was the color my onions were supposed to be … yet I managed to BURN them.

I burned onions! I could cook onions perfectly in my sleep, from another room, while being half paralyzed. Nope, but not today. So not only was I embarassed in front of the whole class, I was punished. And my punishment according to Chef was to eat the burnt onions … at 8 am in the morning.

Some breakfast.

Hiding in the computer lab during family meal … ugh … wish me luck!

2 Responses to “School is Kicking My Ass Today”

  1. Jenny says:

    balsamic vinegar pear pizza sounds delicious. how’d it turn out? did you make the pizza dough from scratch?

  2. Colleen says:

    Sauté the the onions until caramelized then splash with balsamic and top pizza dough with them, thinly sliced pears and blue cheese. I personally prefer buying dough directly from a pizza shop – it’s cheaper than making or buys a pizza, about $3 and well worth it! Proofing and allowing dough to rise takes mucho time! Hope this helps!