Chef Maxwell Judges the Two Hot Mama's

Can I tell you how bad we did on Saturday with our Challenge? OK it wasn’t disastrous, but it was a little unsettling that I almost quit this program. I realize I am only in the beginnings of these classes, and it looks like I will never get to the level Chef Maxwell is at from Culinary Institute (CIV). Feel so discouraged most days, and wonder what am I doing? It was an honor to meet Chef Maxwell and both Annette and I came away a little discouraged but filled with great tips and ideas.

So we did this beautiful red lentil soup appetizer with zucchini puff.     (Let me tell you first that we were plated on time. The critique part took so long our plates became cold and very unappetizing in the end.) OK beautiful red lentil soup with zucchini puffs. The soup became congealed it sat for so long. Puffs were soggy.





Then we did beef again (no surprise there) we were trying for something southwest. Well the sauce became candied, and we had too many mashed potatoes on the plate. They were very good garlic mashed potatoes.

Dessert we rocked with our Mexican chocolate torte. Just enough heat to compliment the lime whipped cream. YUMM YUMM YUMM. I could eat that all day. 


Monday is another whole story and will keep you posted on our guest Chef teacher and his comments.