Day 65 - January 5, 2010

Day 65:

Today I was in charge of chicken alfredo for a lunch we were catering. I started the morning off by putting a gallon of heavy cream into a non-stick skillet with a 1/2 pound of butter and let it start reducing. While the cream was reducing I started working on my whipped cheesecakes. They were going pretty good and I was staying busy running between the alfredo sauce and the cheesecake. As it got nearer to lunch time (which was moved up a half hour from what I was originally told) I needed to spend more time on my alfredo and had to keep putting off my cheesecake. I needed to get my noodles cooking because I had a ton of them and they would take a while.

I got to the last step on my cheesecake and started to put it into the pans and spread it out when I ran out of time and couldn't focus on it anymore. Megan helped me out and finished my cheesecake while I finished my alfredo.

My sauce wasn't quite thick enough, we ran out of time and had to thicken it up faster than we would have liked. We ended up adding a little bit of a cream base and tossed parmesan cheese in with arrowroot powder. Arrowroot powder is a thickening agent like cornstarch, but unlike cornstarch it is clear and not white when it dissolves. After that was all in the sauce, we seasoned it up with salt and pepper and added a touch of white wine and it was delicious!

We got two more new people today, Rosemary and Cami. They were in charge of cooking my chicken because I was still focusing on other things. I trimmed the pieces up and Rosemary started cooking. We also started steaming some mixed veggies to go with the pasta.

After it was all ready, John and I started plating it up. We had a big bed of noodles with alfredo sauce and a couple chicken tenders sliced up with a side of veggies. It all looked really good! I was very happy with how it turned out.