Week #3, Monday to Wednesday

Second week's weekend was very quiet and calm, mostly because the younger student went out of town, so I got to have some peace and quiet ;)

Monday was the beginning of the second work placement week. Eager to learn something new and maybe finally to get to prepare a dish or two from scratch by myself.

I got to make duck rillettes, another thing I had never done before.

On Monday I also got to make chocolate chip brownies. I love baking brownies, so it was fun to get to do them here. Especially, since the recipe highly resembled a chocolate cake recipe from a certain Italian style restaurant I learned on the job at a few months ago (replace the chocolate chips with peanuts and it's precisely that!)

Tuesday, I was asked to make fruit salad for Wednesday's breakfast service.

I also made some pesto and chopped garlic into a fine paste.

Then I got to prepare our supper. A chicken dish from the menu. And I got to prepare it all by myself, aswell as build the dish. Got some of that dish preparation confidence back: I can do this, even without recipes or pictures of the dish itself!

I noticed the brownies on the recommendations menu on Tuesday. The brownies were cut into pieces and I was complimented on how well they turned out. It was a great feeling, knowing I'd succeeded in something.

Third chef's take on the brownie dish.

My brownie dish.

Wednesday, working with head chef and the student from the local college. I was in the starter side again.

Dauphinoise potatoes, first one I've ever made.

I learned what goes into the figs starter and how olives starter should look like.

I also got to make a sticky toffee pudding dish.

Two more days at the hotel and then this work placement in an actual British hotel is over! Unbelievable how quickly time passes by when you're having fun, isn't it?

I still have one Sunday to try and get my butt to that weekly car boot sale I was planning to go to last Sunday (but didn't, after enjoying some drinks in my bedroom and staying up very late watching films on Netflix).

Speaking of which, I was happy to notice that my Netflix account now shows me the British selection. So I have to try and binge on as many shows and movies before I go home, because a buttload of them are not available in Finland.

We'll see what antics tomorrow brings!