I am king of the sea - but Im not aqua man.

So Im pretty tired right about now. Ive been up since about 6 oclock this morning - wasnt as bad as I thought it would be but it really wasnt the best thing in the world. 7am on Thursdays will still take some getting used to, but I figure if I can get myself to bed early enough I will still be able to function in the kitchen. We have finished our first two labs of semester 2 (Garde Manger and our Food Lab) They both went great and I didnt totally mess anything up. I enjoy being back in the kitchen and not laying around in my basement. For our first Garde Manger class we did some canning. We made a sweet strawberry jam, a spiced red pepper jelly, raspberry vinegar, lemon thyme oil, pickled onions, a pear raisin chutney, and a spice rub. It wasnt really all that difficult and we got to use the fancy new kitchen that is way bigger (well not really - it just seems like it) than our normal one, all the burners work on first try, and there is more work space. In our food lab today we made 4 different pasta dishes. We made a Penne Puttanessca, Pasta alla Carbonnera, Gnocchi Romaine, and Potato Gnocchi. It was a good time and it was the only time we were timed on our dishes other than the exam. That went well also. We were able to have parteners for the Gnocchi dishes and - of course - Amber and I were a team. I feel as though tomorrow is going to be a very long day .. but I think Allie, Cait, TonTon, and possibly Norm are going bowling at palasads so that will be fun. Im kind of nervous about bake lab because I think we have the intense teacher and bake has always been the one class where you really cant just "wing it".