Izzy's school has a March activity they call Winterim. High Schoolers spend a week doing something interesting (there were trips to Europe, the Dominican Republic, internships at the State House, etc.)
Izzy, as a newbie, got assigned to Cooking School at our local mondo university. The students learned a few skills, including practicing evacuation of the building (twice!) when the fire alarms went off--the revolving-restaurant-topped building has 18 floors and they were occupying the 18th. They may have also learned some cooking techniques -- I heard during the week about this or that developing mad chopping skills.
Families of students and the two faculty were invited to a Friday night dinner prepared by the students. The kids made everything except the Bananas Foster (I don't think the school wanted them stirring the flaming bananas), and the meal was pretty good. There was a really neat onion appetizer that I thought might go well with brie. Turns out Izzy agreed, and he created the dish for last Sunday's small pre-Battlestar Galactica dinner.
I just learned today that Izzy been saving some recipes (some are his, others are ones he's learned) on his blog space, where he puts other quotes and info he doesn't want to lose.
Check out:
- Brie in pastry with red onion confit or
- Omelette Lyonnaise or
- his usual omelette recipe or
- the amazing dressing he made for our spinach and strawberry salads.
Great commentary, too. Gashwin, you might want to stop by when you get back this way...
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As a previous resident of the 16th floor of that building, I must say ... fire alarms are dizzying (and the bane of high rise living).
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