At The End of The Day....

When you can walk away from your day at work and say, tonight was great, I feel great about the work I did and the dishes I put out. That's a great sense of accomplishment. It's nights like these I want to have and feel more of. It's also when you can feel that "Hey, my speed is getting better, I'm learning and feeling more comfortable about this all." I feel like tonight was an awesome night and I'm feeling alot better and more confident about running my station.....though I still need to work on my speed.

But other than that, the line tonight put out some awesome food, gave our line a nice little scrub down, and wrote out the prep lists for tomorrow and thinking into the future for the spring menu (I'm looking forward too it!) Had a good conversation with the PM crew, my Executive Sous Chef and our PM Lead who runs the grill. Talks about food, technique, careers, goals, etc. It was a great day simply put!

I didn't get time to check on my picklings today once again! I feel so bad about that...I promise it will happen! But this afternoon, my Executive Sous Chef was working with an item I'd never quite seen nor tasted....Sorrel

Now Sorrel is an interesting green/herb, what ever it maybe but I think its delicious! Eating it raw it has a fresh crisp but it produces a citrus like flavor. I think if you threw this into a salad of mixed field greens or baby greens it would be a little surprise to your guests, its like when eating it you didn't even need vinegar or a juice, just alittle oil that's how much citrus flavor it gave off. My executive sous chef wanted me to blanch some (he was playing around with it) I blanched it and it turned into this ugly brown, over cooked greens color. I followed standard procedure for blanching green veg but this doesn't seem to follow that procedure. Despite its ugly color I went on to eat it and after blanching it its citrus flavor only intensified and was even better. I'm hoping we get some more in the kitchen or I can find some, I'd love to play with it more and see what I could apply it too.

But I'm looking forward to another day at work tomorrow and of course another day of learning. (When do I not look forward to work!) Good night all!

-Garrett