Manic Mondays!

yea, although i haven't really loathed mondays since high school, i really dont like them now. Basically every monday, and last night, we just have a looooong lecture and demos for most of the dishes we'll be preparing this week. So we had a demo for espagnole sauce, clam chowder, cream of tomato soup, roseti potatoes (yes, thats not a typo, its a swiss dish aparently, pommes anna, and some egg dishes. Yes we had a long lecture about eggs. I now know what the different egg grades mean and the different components of the egg (yes, it more than the mere yolk and white). What was sort of funny was that we got a list of egg sizes and it included: jumbo, extra large, large, medium, small, and get this, pee wee! yes mini eggs are apparently called pee wees! any how, yesterday was basically all talk so we weren't actually cooking. today should be better, i'll be making all the dishes we saw in demo and before our whole class actually gets to go the school "bistro" where the almost graduates serve the public but one day a quarter each class gets to eat there so the chefs at the resturant handel a simulated "high volume" situation. I'll tell you all about it, it should be yummy!