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.

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Yesterday we made more sauces. This time they all started with demi-glace. We made Sauce Robert, Sauce Chasseur, and Sauce Marchand de...

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Today in class we divided into pairs and used some of the stocks that we have been making to make second sauces--sauces derived from the...

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We are gearing up to make sauces so we made more stock today! We cooled our veal stock from yesterday and got it in the cooler and we...

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Today is the first day of the seventh week of school and that means that we are in a new class--Food Foundations 2 (F2) and have moved...

A sucky week!

I've missed three days of school this week for car troubles. I hate it! I'm not in a position right now to pay a mechanic and I am just...

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School is still going well. I had more tests this week. I did well on the written two but the practical was tricky. My mayonnaise and...

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I have three weeks of school down and it's going great! We made stocks and mother sauces this past week. Chef Shane demonstrated most of...

WooHoo

I got an 88 on my knife cuts test today. Yay!

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Today we had our first two tests at school. The first one was general culinary stuff that we have gone over and I expected it to be easy....

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School started for me this week. It's pretty cool! We haven't cooked yet. We are going through the ServSafe stuff. I guess you have to be...

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