{"id":6258,"date":"2015-01-13T06:11:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T06:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.darais.com\/?p=6258"},"modified":"2015-01-13T06:11:50","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T06:11:50","slug":"first-day-scares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/13\/first-day-scares\/","title":{"rendered":"First day scares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was my first day of class, and it scared me half to death. The chefs, one of whom is Chef Katie from\u00a0<em>Top Chef<\/em>, made us:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>concasse a tomato<\/li>\n<li>brunois a carrot<\/li>\n<li>supreme an orange<\/li>\n<li>brunois the orange peel<\/li>\n<li>tourne an apple<\/li>\n<li>julienne an onion &#8212; this included cutting and scraping every single peel until they were all of uniform depth<\/li>\n<li>small dice a large baking potato<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;in <em>forty five minutes<\/em>. Needless to say, I did not make it happen. I dropped so many things from nervousness that at one point the chefs probably wondered if I thought the task at hand was actually to decorate the floor with organic matter. The whole exercise was a scary wake up call that I need to practice more seriously at home.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to writing my recipes for tomorrow, I have to find an economical place to get my knives sharpened. I also have to buy an outfit for when I work front of house, find and write recipes, organize my binder, and learn how to tie a tie. Somehow I&#8217;m 31 an still have no idea how to do that. (We have to wear a tie when we&#8217;re working front of house.)<\/p>\n<p>It was just plain scary, although I feel sure that I will learn more in this class than in any other.<\/p>\n<p>While I was sweating nervous bullets at class, Abe was home having an Elsa dress dance party with the girls.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0821.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6262\" alt=\"IMG_0821\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0821-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0819.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6261\" alt=\"IMG_0819\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0819-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0825.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6259\" alt=\"IMG_0825\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0825-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was my first day of class, and it scared me half to death. The chefs, one of whom is Chef Katie from\u00a0Top Chef, made us: concasse a tomato brunois a carrot supreme an orange brunois the orange peel tourne an apple julienne an onion &#8212; this included cutting and scraping every single peel until &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/13\/first-day-scares\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First day scares<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-t","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}