Table for One

- Eating well when you eat alone -

Hello!

And welcome! I'm Cynthia, a catering and personal chef, and baker from Missouri. I'm a graduate of L'Ecole Culinaire in St. Louis. I've worked for restaurants and caterers as cook, baker, server, and even dishwasher for a long time.

In the interest of full disclosure, if there is a link to a product or a company it is most surely an affiliate link and I would receive a very small commission from any purchases from that direct link.

Never wanna see another cookie!

I just finished the second week of Baking Essentials (my second term at L'Ecole Culinaire). We made cookies all week. We made three...

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Julianne decorated my knife kit over the weekend. I love it! It's the best one in the whole school! This is my doggie, Abby, out cold...

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Today was fun. We had hepatitis A shots. We get a booster in about six months and then we're good for twenty years. You have to have...

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WTF? School starts in ten minutes and we have a fire alarm! Coat back on...

Arrabiata Sauce

It was a great day for cooking at school! One thing I love about LEC is that when we make sauce we also make something to eat it on and a...

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School started more than an hour late but it was a good day. We made sirloin roast, bordelaise, mashed potatoes, and broccoli. It was all...

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YUM!!! We made espagnole at school today. It's a mother sauce made from brown veal stock. From it we made demi-glace (equal amounts of...

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oday at school we made bechamel and two small sauces with it--mornay and cheddar cheese sauce--and ate them on noodles with a toasted...

We're cookin' with gas.

My carpool driver hasn't shown up yet this week. Ugh! Last night she texted me and said she would be here today. I didn't see her at...

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Istayed home from school today because poor Julianne was freaking out. I guess her scabs are coming loose and bleeding a little. She...

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