Jamaican Gal Lost in Europe: Vevey and School

Hey!! How was your week? Mine was a little ruff but pressing on.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2011.

Winter is upon us ... autumn is ending as the leaves shed!

So I went to Vevey this weekend to buy a coat and I got one :) ... it is getting cold and getting cold fast.

I even went to the national food museum of Switzerland. Yes leave it to me to go to the museum all about food .. yuum!

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2011.

This week was a students final maître d’hôtel exam. I was service staff. This means she was in charge of the meal service and her waiters (me and 3 other students).

I was in charge of the Table setting but the flowers were quite amazing. They built a structure out of sticks and then did individual orchids in vases and hung them from the structure.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2011.

In cooking class we made:

Appetizer: Mushroom Capachino (mushroom soup with cream ontop, served in a coffee cup 'normally')

Entree: Creole rice with Gratinated fish and vegetables (spinach) in mornay sauce

Dessert: Fresh Fruit Salad with Vanilla ice cream.

Then we had Cheese tasting for our evening class! The softer the cheese is the younger it is and you taste from mild to strong, so from young to old. I seem to prefer soft cheeses, Goat cheese, Tomme vaudoise and Brie were my favorites.

Tomme vaudoise is a soft cheese from the Vaud canton of Switzerland.

Brie is a soft cow's cheese which originated from the French region.

We ate the cheese with bread, grapes and walnuts! I recommend all these combinations.

But make a note to yourself soft cheese it eaten on bread but hard cheese with knife and fork or with fingers.

This gadget is called a Girolle. It is used for semi hard cheeses like Tête de moine ' Monk's head cheese.'
A monks head is bald so you use the device to shave the top of the cheese like a head.

Guess what?

I got Mail!!

Who from?

Touzeau!