meat & seafood identification & fabrication. good times.
we started with seafood, filleting salmon, halibut, shucking oysters, and making calimari. then we moved on to poultry, breaking down everything from chicken, duck, squab, and other wild birds. after the birds we moved to the beef, pork, and lamb, fabricating cuts from the sides of each animal. all the while we made sausage from basically every animal. yum. we also made head cheese, blood sausage, froie gras, confit, had a wing and burger throw-down, and ate all sorts of delicious parts.
in addition to learning the fabricated cuts of each of the animals we were required to know their names and be able to identify each type of fish, mollusk, bird, cow, pig, lamb, rabbit, and all of their parts. not easy, but quite fun.
back in the classroom for 3 weeks.
i think the classroom classes are coming to an end here soon. it will be a nice break, nonetheless. here(& below) are a few pictures of this class. they were taken with my phone, so excuse the quality. i didn’t take the time to bring in the camera this time.

Tags: cutting things, cycle finished, food, school


a little test of the new digs
spoon&fork
happy 29th deeann!
a recent weekend
not wanting to give in.
summer so far
deeann is here to stay
I’m pretty sure that’s a HUMAN FACE! Stop cutting into HUMAN FACES… Hanibal.
Just disgusting…
A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
A snout! A snout!