So today in class we cooked up some filipino food. And I can add one more thing to my list of things I’ve eaten: pigs brains. I was in charge of that dish. I marinated the various pieces of meat I had cut off the head in vinegar, shoyu, garlic and ginger. Then I grilled the pieces til they were crispy and sliced them thin. The brains I poached in half vinegar, half shoyu. Then we tossed everything together with some chili pepper. It ended up really good. I especially liked the ears and the snout. As an Okinawan, I am no stranger to pigs ears. I found the snout to have a good texture. It was almost like the tounge, but with more of a subtle flavor.
Another dish we made was from the guts and blood. The various internal organs were chopped up and boiled in pigs blood. I’m not sure what was what except for the intestines (which looked like squid rings), but they all tasted good. In fact, this was my favorite dish. Everything was a lot more tender than I expected them to be.
The two “normal” dishes we had were pork tenderloin with poached apples and grilled salmon and cod. The pork was too sweet and dry (overcooked) for me . The fish we grilled was the bones left over after we took off the filets. The fish was good, but I didn’t like the sauce. It was almost like sauce you get from Gina’s. Good with meat jun or mandoo, but not so good with salmon. I didn’t get to try the cod.
pork tenderloin
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pigs head
pigs blood and guts
今日は今年度最後の日勤。このチームでやるのも今日で最後。
いろいろありましたが、一年間お世話になりました。
ありがとうございました。と。感傷に浸ってる暇はなく…
明日からの新しいチームに移行するための準備がわんさか。
今日も遅〜なりました。ヘトヘトさぁ。
一年間お疲れ様。明日から5年目として再スタートですね。
The chef and our server!
They only have 2 servers a night working.
Dessert creme brûlée with lady fingers and a raspberry sorbet!
Beautiful presentation!
Latte
Another thing the chef made!
A very talented man
ニュージーランドのオークランドで、１週間マッサージコースを行っています。
オークランドは空気が澄んでいて、本当に住み心地のよいところです。街もよく清掃されています。道には目につくようなごみが落ちていません。
しかし、何といってもホノルルの景色が最高です。山あり海あり、日没も見られるその美しさは世界で一番だと思います。
The class I am taking right now is called garde manger, which literally means “keep to eat.” It is mainly cold food preparation with a base in pre-refrigeration preservation. This week we will be making sausages, smoking meat, pickling meat, and making filipino food (my teacher is filipino and just likes to eat filipino food). Before spring break, we were working with aspic, or gelatin. We made different colors of aspic using things like eggs, spinach, and tomatoes. We each had to think of a design to make using sheets of aspic in red, yellow, white, black(ish), and green. I decided to use hanafuda cards as my design, since they basically use those colors. At first I made the deer card. I thought we had orange color too, but there wasn’t, so I had to use yellow for the deer and the tree trunk. It was hard to see in front of a white background. So, I made another one with the green bird in the ume tree. It came out much nicer, and my teacher liked it best in the class. It was a little hard to cut everything freehand (most people used cutters that chef had brought), but I enjoy this kind of stuff.
Today, chef brought in a whole pig. We broke it down in class. Mainly me and one other guy did all the cutting. I cut the front quarter off the carcass, the feet off the ham, trimmed the ears and face, and removed the brain. We will use the parts to make several items like smoked loin and tenderloin, bacon, pancetta, smoked ribs, and several different kinds of sausage. We also broke down a salmon to make gravlax, and a cod to make smoked cod. It’s going to be a smoky week, but I cant wait to try all the stuff we make.
品のないタイトルですみません。今日は私の受け持ち患者さんがリターンして来られました。明日オペ。よく覚えてくださってて、入院中は名指しで度々ご指名があります（笑）
しかし、困った事が。持ってこられたカバンの中に札束が…！！（◎□◎）………。
ど、ど、どうするのこれーーーー？！！！
貴重品も金庫に入りきらんくらいあるし！ 自分の傍にあるのが一番安心、という考え方らしいけど、明日のオペどないすんの？！ 身内も来られないのに！！ 最近、盗難があったって言ってたし…、これはまずいでしょ。
兄に連絡。何とか預かってもらえることになりました。患者さんは若干不満げでしたが。札束を見なれてない自分、正直テンションが上がってしまった、もらえるわけでもないのに（汗） 束や、すご〜〜〜い（◎o◎）
まじめな話。病院でも盗難には十分気をつけてくださいね。リハビリの時間とかチェックされて、確実に帰ってこない時間帯をねらってくるらしいから。怖い怖い。
I really think cellphones are really helpful and convenient. Many people use cellphones and many people use them for safety. I always have my cellphone with me. It is really fun to have people to talk to. I usually text everyone instead since its cheaper and its easier to go straight to the point. I think everyone should have one.
