Today when I got to school Rex put Adrienne and I in charge of a big lunch on Tuesday. It's for the women in business lunch, so he didn't want any males working on the food. We spent the morning looking at plating designs trying to get ideas for this lunch. Adrienne found a puff pastry napoleon with mango and raspberry. It looks delicious! It's stacked pretty tall and looks really good. I think we are going to try and do something based off that for the dessert. For lunch Rex told us we are doing pork and was leaning toward maple glazed pork. I wanted to do something other than maple so we spent the morning testing out four different orange-chile glazes to put on the pork instead. the first one we made was burn your face off hot and thick and not pretty at all. The second was delicious with a spicy kick after all the flavors hit. The third was awful. Rex told us to try an orange simple syrup with red pepper flakes in it. It was super sweet and not at all what I was going for. He liked it though, it was comparable with the maple sweet wise.
We are going to do a test run on Monday and try out our second orange-chile glaze and see how it tastes.
After we finished our test run, I needed to cook my trout I had pulled out the other day so it wouldn't go bad. I seasoned both sides of the fish and coated it in corn meal. After that I took the entire fish and pan fried it in oil until it was golden brown, about 3 minutes on both sides. I pulled it off and stuffed it with my eggplant caponata and topped it with the eggplant as well.
It was pretty tasty! I liked it with the eggplant. I think it was a nice change for how I normally cook fish.
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