Salmon

I’m going to make this blog short and sweet.

On Monday, we were shown how to clean a fish; a big ole salmon. We each had to cut out a filet, but I cut mine a little too big. (Not my fault, my teacher showed me where to place the knife.) Anyways, I was feeling reaaaaaal sick that day. I ALMOST went home. But I stuck it out like a champ. I made seared salmon with some peach sauce. It was supposed to be a mango sauce but we didn’t have any mango. I don’t like mango but I was willing to give it a shot as a sauce. We also were supposed to melt brie cheese over the top but we didn’t have brie so I had to use goat cheese.

We also had to make some sort of special potato that ended up tasting pretty good and I’d do it again. I forgot the name but that’d besides the point right now. We had to add something to our potato and I don’t know why but I wanted to use beet. I just let my imagination go crazy. I made a sauce. I put a whole bunch of stuff in there. White wine, goat cheese, butter, heavy cream, salt. I didn’t like how it turned out so I just added water and brown sugar and it turned out a really pretty color and sweet. I made some sweet beets.

My teacher said that my plate presentation had the best height in the class. Which is a good thing; the higher the better. Overall, I’m glad I stayed because the salmon turned out perfect and I loved it.