While yesterday was mother sauces today was all about the independent ones. The sauces that are out there all alone; butter, broken butter, compound butter, salsa (yep it's a sauce!), relish... I could go on, but my fingers would fall off it I kept listing them!
Each group had to make a compound butter today, ours went with butter, garlic, lemon zest, thyme, and basil. Sounds odd, but really it tastes good! I'd been lobbying for rosemary, but there wasn't any in the fridge. We also made a cream of mushroom soup that turned out decently, each group had a slightly different flavor in their soup, but that is to be expected, and truly part of the fun!
Knife cuts, the bane of my existence, rounded out the day. The cuts are exacting and everything has to line up for them to turn out right. I hold my wrist at a terribly odd angle (it isn't odd for holding the reins when riding a horse, but really doesn't work too well for holding a knife) so I really must pay attention to my hand position, where the knife is going, heck even how I'm standing! Yes where your feet are make a huge difference when you cut, I totally didn't believe it but the proof is there and I do have better results when I'm standing one way as opposed to another. My patience paid off today and Chef said that not only were my knife cuts improving, but my orange supremes were fantastic!
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