Grades & More Deliveries

How is everyone? Good I hope! I haven't posted anything in a few days. I got a job at a local fine dining restaurant in Williamsburg, Opus9, it's a very nice place. I enjoy it! I sent my resume in about a week and a half two weeks ago for a hostess position. When I emailed it I did not realize I had sent in my culinary resume which had my blog address on it! The manager's actually looked at my blog and interviewed me and mentioned they wanted to double me for both hostessing and pastry chef! I trained over the last week for hostessing and work three days this week for that position. The kitchen position has been talked about a little bit we will see where it goes! I am excited to be working no matter what though. A lot of people say I have a full plate and think I'm taking on too much, but I feel awesome working, doing CMC, my blog, and school. Not to mention my three nuggets! I feel good when I'm busy. Speaking of school I received my grades Saturday for my first quarter! I am very happy with them, my GPA overall is 3.0 and I got a B+ in culinary sanitation and theory, and computer applications I got a B-! Cant complain about that! I start my new classes this week. I am not taking a basic math class, and my kitchen fundamentals. I am excited to attend my fundamentals class this week I get my chef uniforms and knife kit. I was suppose to get that last Monday at our induction ceremony but it was canceled last minute. I have the same instructor for kitchen fundamentals that I just had for theory! He's a really laid back nice guy so I'm happy with that too. Ready to be in the kitchen and working on my skills and learning new techniques and ways to do things. I will keep everyone updated as class goes!!!

We just had St. Patrick's Day! I made the usual corned beef, forgot to get cabbage so had carrots and red potatoes. It was good! It did turn out tough to eat though. Cant remember if it normally turns out like that or if it was just because I cooked it in the crock pot. I had my sister put it all in there for me and she put the veggies on bottom and meat on top cooking those kind of things in a crock pot you want to be sure to submerge the meat in the water and place the veggies, or most of them, on top of the meat. So it soaks in the juices. But it did turn out good! We didn't do anything special to celebrate the occasion, the kiddos just hung out around the house and after dinner we rented Wreck it Ralph to watch as a family. Very cute movie I recommend that for everyone with little ones!! Next to rent is Rise of the Guardians! I am in the midst of planning a mini trip to Tennessee to visit my family for a few days, and let them visit with the kiddos. I am looking forward to seeing everyone and also spending a day in Cades Cove. It is such a beautiful place tons of places to hike, old cabins with stories, wild life. It's just beautiful. I am going to be cooking a lot while I am visiting there. My dad called me the other day and asked if I would come over one night and cook dinner for everyone there. I'm sure that will be one of the first nights there! And of course I will cook for my gramma and grampa! It will be a nice visit I am looking forward to it.

I had more orders to fill over the weekend for CMC for the Building Bridges Benefit. That went nice, and much smoother than the first orders I placed. I think because I had already made everything at least once so I had a feel for how to do things better! That order total I filled was $156.00, so a total CMC has raised for the benefit is $281.00! I am very proud of that and glad I could take place and participate in the benefit to help the Bridges family! I will still be taking orders for that benefit, locally, for the rest of March. Hopefully I can get a couple more orders and round off the total raised to be $300.00 even.

I posted Country Mom chef's Easter menu! I haven't received any orders on it yet though. I need to figure out how to make a flyer so I can post it and people can share it. I have the menu posted but it's better to have a flyer with everything listed and can be shared as a photo. I am going to work on that tomorrow but here is the menu I have come up with!!:
Country Mom Chef’s Easter Menu

All Easter orders must be placed by Wednesday March 27th
*Fresh Orange Cupcakes with an Orange Cream Cheese Frosting: $1.50 per cupcake / $16.oo dozen
*Decorated Daisy Brownies: $1.00 each / $11.00 dozen
(Will be decorated with colored bright frosting to mimic spring color daisies)
*Strawberry Cupcakes with Strawberry Cream cheese Frosting: $1.50 per cupcake / $16.oo dozen
*Carrot Cupcakes with Maple Cream Cheese Frosting: $ 1.50 per cupcake / $16.00 dozen
*Sweet Hummingbird Cupcakes with Pecan Cream Cheese Frosting: $ 1.50 per cupcake / $16.00 dozen
(Garnished with dried pineapple flower)
*Sweet Coconut Nest Cupcakes: $ 1.50 per cupcake / $16.00 dozen
(Garnished with chocolate coconut nest and chocolate eggs to mimic a bird’s nest)

I am also going to offer truffles like the oreo and mint ones I made for the benefit, I will offer those flavors as well as sandies & chocolate chocolate chip. Those will be dipped in white chocolate and decorated with spring theme sprinkles. They will be pretty! Hopefully I will have a pretty flyer up by tomorrow night and orders will start coming in! I am also working on a small catering menu for locals. I have ideas for a few packages but need to come up with a menu for each package. I have a lot to work on! But it's worth it! I received a personal invite to The Southern C (The Summit) conference that will be held this May in GA. Right down the road from where my house is that I own! I sure do miss the area. I'm hoping I can make it, just need to get my ducks in a row so I can! In the invite it was mentioned that I would be meeting the editors for Southern Living. That is such a huge a opportunity. I would be able to learn and absorb so much in that weekend at the conference. Fingers crossed all will work out!! :)

Well it is late and I work in the morning, I will be posting a recipe for Eclair cake tomorrow evening along with a flyer for Easter if I can figure out how to design that! Have a wonderful night everyone!