First Timed Evaluation

So you think you can cook. You’ve done it a million times. You have friends over, they compliment you on your style and ability. But then again, they just got a free meal and didn’t have to leave a tip. So you you cook for your family and they tell you how much they love your lumpy gravy. Here’s a nouveau way to spend a Friday Morning. Take ten highly motivated individuals from around the world, give them a deadline  and a big pantry.  Fabulous looking and mouthwatering food. Oh I forgot to mention it’s a evaluation day. Not a test because test is not good. An Evaluation because evaluations are a  learning experience. So here’s my plat du jour delivered withoute,  10 seconds of the 12 o’clock deadline. Impressive huh?

Yummy or so I thought

Just before you download this photo, print it and give it to my elderly mother to put on her fridge. Let me tell you about my evaluation.

Nous vous presenton specialement pour vous Filet of Lamb with a hunter sauce reduction on a bed of roasted garlic with wild mushroom garnished with a melange of mint and citrus , buttery mint baby carrots with new potatoes cooked in  a lemon thyme water and pan finished with lemon and orange infused olive oil.

So with my identical plates in hand, I proudly walk into the hallway away from the ever maddening kitchen that looked like a kitchen gadget party gone bad. There is mon chef, the evaluation chef and 30 people  in dark suits, who were very interested in my creation. I guess with my grey hair and my initial look of pride, I think they believed they were experiencing international gastronomic history.

All 30 of them gathered around the table with great interest as the evaluation chef went thru every centimeter of my dish.  He cut my filet, Cinq en Cinq. Five on Five. I am brilliant. Those 30 people should ask me for a photo. Sauce Cinq en Cinq. Five on Five. Perhaps those 30 people are from the Michelin guide and they are here to give me a well deserved star.

Science says stars burn brightest just before they die.  The potatoes were amusing. The carrots were horrible, not cooked. Another note to self- cook carrots and then cook more and then when you think they are cooked, cook them more. Alway put any soft texture like roasted garlic on the top of your hard surfaced meat. Don’t be so cheap with potatoes. My dish ended up in the middle. My 30 fans dispersed with a look of happiness that they were visiting and not cooking.

I Could have been a Contender!