Day 76 - January 22, 2010

Day 76:

Today I talked about my next couple weeks with Rex and we decided that I'm going to be doing salads, dressings and the salad bar. I started out by making some blue cheese dressing for the salad bar that day and it was delicious! Last time I had blue cheese dressing it was surprisingly bland considering it was blue cheese so I was a little nervous. I ended up using gorgonzola instead of traditional blue cheese (so much better!) and added salt and pepper. I loved it! I will definitely be making it from now on.

Delicious Blue Cheese Dressing:

1 cup blue cheese (I used gorgonzola, so much better!)
1 1/2 cups mayonnaise
1 1/2 cups sour cream
2 Tbsp lemon juice
2 Tbsp Dry mustard
2 Tbsp onion, minced
2 Tbsp chives, minced (or scallions)
Salt and white pepper

In a bowl combine the mayo, sour cream and lemon juice. Add the dry mustard, onion and chives. Stir in the cheese. Add salt and pepper to taste.


After I finished my dressing I helped Adrienne weigh out and shape rolls and then scoop chocolate chip cookies. After that I set up lunch for 10 in the class room. We needed their dessert so I attempted to plate some coconut cream pies, but they hadn't set up quite yet and that turned into a royal disaster when I scooped an entire slice out plated it and then looked back in the pie plate and saw the entire crust sitting there . . . Yeah I passed that job off to Adrienne at that point. After that I helped serve lunch and everybody loved it. We served philly cheese steak prime rib sandwiches (always a hit), with homemade potato wedges and slaw.

After lunch I cleaned up and stopped to talk to Jon for a bit about next weeks schedule. I was on for the salad bar, dressings and he assigned me to be in charge of a lunch for 150 people on Thursday. We would be serving chicken cordon bleu, rice pilaf, a veggie, rolls and a salad of sorts. I would be organizing it.

That was about it for my day