What a week it has been. Been cooking all day and all night since last Thursday. So many ups and downs in this industry..at least for me.
We make daily features at the restaurant everyday and now we get to post pictures on Facebook, which is really exciting to me. So far I've made two hits! One is called a "Frickle Burger" and it has pepperjack cheese, breaded fried onion strings, spicy mustard and a skewer of hand-breaded fried pickles...healthy? No. Delicious? Yes! The other feature I tried tonight, and I called it "Island Chicken" and it was a chicken breast glazed in a spicy orange glaze with provolone cheese and a grilled pineapple and shrimp kabob. It was good, and I really wanted to do something outside the box...I think I nailed it!
On the downside, I promised my cousin that I would make her gin and tonic cupcakes. Found this recipe on the internet that looked great. Yeah, not so much. Slaved about 2 1/2 hours over these cupcakes last night, only to throw them all away. I hate gin, but all personal tastes aside, the texture was just weird. It was kind of like a sponge cake, using mostly egg whites as a leavening agent, but the only ingredients in the cake part were egg whites, cream of tartar, pinch of salt, powdered sugar, flour and tonic water...it turned out okay. The worst part was the mascarpone icing, which was just a nightmare. Mascarpone, gin, corn syrup and a little green food color. Thats it. Unless I used too much gin, I think the alcohol made the mascarpone separate. I was beating myself up over it all night, but you just have to move on, and make something better next time!
The worst part about all of this is that I went to culinary school specializing in baking and pastry, and look where I'm excelling..in savory foods!
Oh well, you can't win 'em all!
Exhausted and hungry,
Alaina
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