Sour makes me Sweet!

Ok so this is my very first blog posting ever. I have never been a blogger really, I read a lot of them but just have not ever sat down and started my own. Well, I feel its time for that to change. I have just graduated from the International Culinary School at the Art Institute of California San Diego with a degree in Culinary Arts, Baking and Pastry. I am very excited to get out into the world as a chef and see what kind of adventures the wonderful world of food has to offer me. I am an avid foodie I love food of all kind, sweet, savory, scary, new, old it does not matter if its food ill try it and probably fall in love all over again.

I have begun the interview process of finding a job and this my friends is what leads me to the title of my first posting, sometimes in this process I find myself getting discouraged and cranky and feeling generally sour to the whole aspect of job hunting. Not to mention when I do land an interview at a location that I feel I will be really happy about only to get there and realize that the kitchen and production is no where near what I thought it would be, microwaves and seemingly lacking of any technical or skill set at all. It is very upsetting when you walk into a proverbial "hero's den" and find it to be nothing but a scam, my dad once told me never meet anyone you think of as a hero, because they will always let you down. 

So after going on a few interviews and being generally disheartened by the experience, I come home and all I want to do is cook something, bake something, create something that will set my heart at ease.

Today's winner is... Duck fat fries and strawberry balsamic dark chocolate truffles. I really hope the fat will coat my cracked view's and set my heart at peace again.