Job Shadow

For my capstone project, I had to do some job shadowing in the field of my subject.  Since we are lucky enough to have a professional chef (who has years of experience in the industry and even owned a restaurant.)  His name is Chef Rick.  (I didn't get a picture of me with him.)

I learned that it takes a lot of work to be a chef of a restaurant or a lunchroom.  So many kids have different food tastes and are so picky with what they will or won't eat.

I couldn't help prepare the food because I am not old enough to have a food handler's permit, but I did get to help serve.  I job shadowed during an elementary lunch period, so we saw a lot of kids through that day.  I helped serve the potatoes.

It  was a lot of fun!

Cupcake Wars #2

My friend, Rachel, invited me over for another round of Cupcake Wars. We were given a vanilla cake mix to start off with and then we got to add whatever ingredients we had on hand to add to our batter.  For one cupcake recipe, I added defrosted, frozen, diced strawberries. For another recipe, I made almond chocolate chip cupcakes.  I chopped almonds and added those along with semi-sweet chocolate chips to the batter.  For a third cupcake, I added just chopped almonds.

Rachel went crazy...again. She did flavors like a Welch's Fruit Snack one, and Fruity Pebble cereal flavor, ending with a berry pudding/jello cupcake. For me, those flavors were too sweet.  She has lots of advantages because her family usually judges, and she knows what her family likes.

She won...again. I think one of the reasons was because her younger brother and his friend were two out of four judges. Of course they will vote for the sweet, sugary ones. And the ones with potty names (Yes, she did potty-name hers.) So did I, but I guess they'd rather have both sugar+potty names. Oh well.  Her dad said he would eat a whole cake like my strawberry flavored one. So that's a win in my book.