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So, yes, a month or a bit less since I last wrote anything other than ‘Two pints please’. Where does all the time go? I’ve been working most days, usually mornings only, but even that has been tiring. But then I went to school yesterday, worked last night and worked this morning and feel OK…
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I get the whole idea of progressions; I understand why we do them and I even think I understand how to do them. But, to start with, I find it hard to actually write one down.See, standing in the kitchen at 9 am it’s easy to see what needs doing first and why – square…
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A quick note: I’d hoped to get this up to date during January when the restaurant was closed for a month. Unfortunately I went down with an ‘erisipel’, blood poisoning from streptococcal bacteria which apparently got in through my foot – my foot and leg swelled up enormously and I couldn’t walk for the first…
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…now, what’s your point? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_drawings.jpg if you want to be offended (NB: Those practising medieval superstitions should send complaints to the usual address)
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BBC Masterchef has an interesting series of quizes on its website designed to see if you’re good enough to be a cook. Try doing the first lot without reading the articles – I got one question wrong in the first 50 thanks to my superior cook’s training. The last lot you’ll need to read the…
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Thanks to Duane for this one: Are you tired of those sissy-ass “friendship” poems that always sound good, but never actually come close to reality? Well,here is the way it REALLY is….without the feel good gingerbread. 1. When you are sad — I will help you get drunk and plot revenge against the sorry bastard…
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Once again Chef (restaurant – as opposed to Chef (Ecole) – I gotta find a better shorthand for these two) came up trumps by getting me to make a few kilos of puff pastry in advance of this week’s school session. Normally in the restaurant we use bought-in sheets of puff pastry, one of the…
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Absolutely shitty day at school yesterday. Everyone was either off sick (six out of 17 of us), should be off sick (me, Eric, David to name just three) or in a really foul mood (absolutely everyone, Chef included and especially). We spent the morning from 9 to midday doing about half an hour’s work which…
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1. I’m ill: old problem of tremblings, fever, swollen leg etc. but this time our new Avignonaise doctor has diagnosed the problem: an erisypele, a Streptococcal bacterial infection of the blood via cracks in my poorly maintained feet. She’s the first one ever to do so, but I still can’t walk, stand up, eat or…
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