A Concept

Well, of course its night time in Colorado Springs and the further out East you go, its already Wednesday. But back to writing, its the time to update and inform everyone and my thoughts on a few things.

But Mother's Day is over (Whew!) I've been on track to recovering, got out yesterday and today, got to enjoy some great hiking, take some amazing photos, and spent some time at the library reading of course. Some fresh air was in call for and also some rest. Now that that's over, its a brand new week, I'm rested and all is good.

Before I go on to continue with what the title of this blog is about, I want to discuss what I made for dinner. Tonight I had the pleasure of cooking dinner for Mark and Mary and it was quite an event. Nothing blew up I promise, but I was given the challenge to prepare wild goose breast. Now I've never cooked goose in my life, never eaten goose except for goose liver pate but I knew this was going to be interesting. So the menu was roasted goose breast, with fingerling potatoes, asparagus and a Merlot reduction with dried cherries. Now everything turned out great! except the goose breast. Now it was wild and it had quite the gamey taste and not only that it was tough and there wasn't much fat so t was very lean (and we all know fat = flavor to be quite honest, just don't lie to yourself and admit that yes bacon does taste so good and partially because of all the fat!). So it was an interesting experience but that was really all to report to dinner, I guess more experimenting to come....maybe....or maybe not.

Though dinner was partially a let down but a great learning experience on the other hand, my package from J.B. Prince did come in today and I GOT MY SPOONS and a set of plating tweezers!

I'm waiting for one more to come in, its on backorder so it should be here in a couple of weeks.

But as for my concept, I'm thinking about researching a chef every week or two and then writing a piece on their outlook on food, how its impacting our industry and then who knows what else is to follow. So I'll do some more research this week and we'll see how it turns out I guess. Feel free to provide some input, any suggestions on who I should write about, etc. I really enjoy writing this blog and I feel it would allow me to expand more as to what I write about.

Other than that, the whole career, thinking about life thing still stays in the back of my mind and gets me thinking some nights but I try not to get too caught up in it all, but I think I might be on the right track with what I'm thinking about doing but then again, things can always change.

A friend of mine Lisa (a fellow student on extern from the CIA) has a blog and she wrote a great post about where home is and it really got me thinking more about my future and where everything will be at in my life. I recommend everyone checks it out, here's the link:
http://lisaappleton.wordpress.com/

That's all I have for this evening so I'm going to sign off.

-Garrett