Well at least it was tasty.

Spent my morning in another practice session for the ACF Culinary Student Showdown.
My culinary partner Annette was not going to be practicing as she was on a trip to NY. Lucky girl!

So the day began of me having a few ideas of going alone and what to make in 90 minutes on an appetizer, entree and dessert.

I figured things would gel together once I saw what was in stock and what the mystery protein was going to be.

Chef Emi suggested I work with Stephan whose partner didn't show either. We had 15 minutes to plan and 15 minutes to hunt.

We decided on a a carrot and sweet potato pureed soup with a drizzle of cream and some toasted pumpkin skills. Pictured to the right. It was darn tasty, need to work on the drizzle part.

Entree which was the complete disaster dish, was flank steak grilled, linguine tossed in a fresh brochette sauce. (Not doing that again).

But dessert was a creme' brulee literary thrown together from memory. Of course the ramekin's were not cooperating and so wound up scooping the custard out and doing a topping of cinnamon whipped cream. Tasted like heaven, but looked like hell.