Art Institute: Week 3 Day 4

Good Morning :) Thank you for visiting my blog :) Its joyous THURSDAY!! Though Little Miss Sunshine is not up yet.. How is your morning so far?

Just taking a memorable pictures at the parking lot :) My dad gave me a ride to school :) I appreciate it dad! Thank you :)




Taking my bag out of the trunk!! Duffle bag with wheels and my lady bug lunch box :p


Ready to face this wonderful adventure here at AI :) North Building :)


Library Tutoring Lab

Food Inc, Finally!! after years of wishing I could watch it! Wish finally granted :) I also watched bazaar foods and other kitchen fundamental skills :)








@ 5:30 pm I started preparing by putting my white apron on and 2 white towels :) I took a picture of the classroom for 1108 class. As you can see the other class is still going on!

So, all of chef Roa's class are busy getting organized while waiting for the other class to finish! :)
Just checking out the employment board :) to get some inspiration!

A student sent some lovely cakes to Chef Cohen's class!! Yummm I took a slice and it was YUMMY!!!


Say hi to Chef Cochran! :) I didn't see him for two days.. But I finally saw him today! Whoo hoo! He has a very formal outfit on. I think he just came from a meeting..

Now, that the other class was done... Time to do the mis en place ( Organize)

The first table is our group :) GOOO group 1!!!

Meet Mary :) She's the sous chef for group 1!!

Vanessa, Oscar, and I doing our mis en place :)


Group 1 Finish product - Soups

Top Row from left to right - Vichyssoise, Cream Broccoli, and French Onion.

Bottom Row from left to right- Minestrone, Consomme ( made yesterday, clarified today) and split pea soup!

@ 9:30 pm Chef Roa explained to us not to touch the final plating until she's done giving us feedback :)

Placing our garnish last minute:)

Chef Roa preparing her tasting spoons!! Yumm Enjoy!

Chef letting us taste our finish product :)

Our finish product went well :) But there's always room for improvements :)

How's our plating? What do you think?! (Comment Below)

Time to give the feed back for Group 2 ! :)
Showing pride for a job well done! :)


Group 3

Chef was explaining the consistency of group 3's soups! :)

Thanks for the tip chef Roa :)
Group 4 Soups :)

Giving a taste to Group 4's finish product :)


Group 5 :) nice plating!
Chef explaining the group's good points and what they could improve on :)



Group 6! Soups yummm...

Group 6 eagerly listens to Chef Roa's comments :)


Haha!! DINNER! Corrin was my team mate in Mr. Entrikins Intro to Success class! ( Read Week 2 Day 3 to know how I got the nickname dinner )
Clean Up time!! Just want to show you the different angles of our kitchen :p

Whoa.. This stove top blew me away!! The flame is soo high! It's amazing! This is my first experience working with this kind of stove top... At home. I must be patient. But here at school.. TIME is GOLDEN :)

Here is where chef shows us demonstrations :) As you can see, the mirror faces towards the audience.. So if you are in the back, you can still see what's going on by watching Chef in the mirror :)

Some students wash the dishes while the others scrub the floor :) Say hi to Vanessa :) She's on the far right washing the dishes. Miguel scrubbing the floor. He is in my group and he's the one who cooked the delicious french onion soup :) He was absent yesterday so you didn't get to meet him..

Team Work!!! Whoo hoo!!


Enjoying washing dishes :)
Getting ready to mop the floor !!!


The room was clean when we finished.. It was golden when we left so I am not allowed to take a picture... JUST KIDDING hehe...

Time to go HOME!! and Get some beauty rest :)

@11:30pm my dad picked me up :)

Along with my mom :)

Just loving the starry night with palm trees @ the AI parking lot... This will be amazing if it was painted :)

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This day ended well. I thank God for all the blessings and opportunities :) I am gradually finding my purpose.. Have a great night everyone! Hope you enjoyed the pictures :) Thank you for visiting my blog!

XoXo LittleMIssChef Ileina

Art Institute: Week 3 Day 3

Good Morning! Rise and Shine :)
Hello!! :) Anything new today? ( Comment below!) I went to school at 7:00am to work on my weekly recap :) So here I am at the South Building :)

Today I once again had chef Kloeble!!! Whoo hoo ! 3 days in a row! :) We received our quiz from last week! and I did well which made my day wonderful :) The culinary concepts class started at 9:00am and ended at 12:00pm.. It went by so fast! There's never enough time to learn every material . So we have to continue next week! Today we also had a quiz regrading sauces which is by the way included in our midterm!!!! The midterm idea is giving me butterflies as I am writing this... haha.. Chef Kloble also reviewed every material back from week 1!! :) So I got extra review! whoo hoo! Today, was a little bit hectic.. Hopefully, everything comes to place ( Mis en place in french) I need to be more organized and be prepared if a situation does not go as planned :) I am looking forward for next week! :)

Intro to success 1:00pm -5:00pm
Easy and fun day today!! Sometimes, I wonder why we have 5 hours for into to success while we have 3 hours for culinary concepts. The extra two hours will be much efficient in 1105 culinary concepts class.. We had the career service do a presentation for us regarding internships, and job affairs :) We played jeopardy!! It was so intense on the final round! Ohh myyy!! We couldve won but we changed our answer last minute!!!! :( But its ok :) We had so much fun playing anyway :) Next week, Group 4 will be presenting.. I will be presenting test taking skills :) my other group mates are doing note taking skills and mnemonics :) Very Fun!!

After Class, I went to the movie night with Jasmine :) We watched hangover!! Whoo very funny but we didn't get to finish it :( Jasmine had to go home while I went to Chef Roa's 1108 class :)

Here is Chef Roa talking to a student :) I had so much working with her :) I LEARNED different techniques and her teaching style was very organized! This gave me an insight on how to work in the kitchen in an organized manner :) She also went over knife skills which was very helpful!!! :) My groupmates were really friendly and fun to work with :) I made a new friend :) Her name is Vanessa Morgan ( the girl thats writing in her notepad, front table :p) :) She is practically in all of my classes and she is my groupmate for Mr. Entrikin's intro to success class :) She is also doing test taking skills ! I also met Mary and Oscar! They were really fun to work with!! ( I didn't get a picture of them.. but you'll meet them tomorrow ok?! ) :) Today was AWESOME!!

How did you spend your day today? Did you have fun? ( Feel Free to Comment Below!!) Enjoy life to the fullest!

XoXo LittleMissChef Ileina