3 down, 8 to go!

Three weeks completed and it feels like I have been here forever! So another week has begun and a new kitchen and partner has entered my culinary life. Last Friday was a game of two halves, the morning was excellent and my dishes worked out really well, chicken liver pate, Melba toast and haddock with mushrooms, buttered crumbs and fluffy herbed potatoes. It all tasted good apart from the cheese we used for the mornay sauce was too strong and it overpowered the light fish. (In my humble opinion!) However soon after cooking my back started to spasm and I spent the next few hours on my back and missed the afternoon demo! As most of you reading this will know, my back saga is a constant theme, luckily the weekend seems to have helped and it has died down a little, plenty of pain killers and water and I am bandaged up enough to attempt week 4!!
The weekend was good, spent some time in Cork City, which is lovely, and some good food and wine.
Luckily enough the demo that I missed was not to intense and consisted of french omelette's, frittata and things like marzipan dates and apples (yuk) so picking things up this morning wasn't too bad, I did spend some time studying the recipes last night and that paid dividends today.
This morning started with the usual farm walk, the mornings are getting darker and some funny b@s$%#d decided to move where the cows are usually situated, scared the life out of me as I walked past, not sure the shock did my back any good and I don't think the cow appreciated the high pitch scream either! However it did get the juices flowing for the mornings cooking which went really well. I made mushroom soup, wild mushroom a la creme, scones and a french omelette (which actually does take only 45 seconds to make).
This afternoon was spent learning about game, how to roast a good chicken, bread sauce, cranberry sauce, redcurrant sauce, game chips, Victoria sponge and summer pudding, a busy afternoon alright!!
So week 4 has begun and I am still raring to go, bit of a funny one for me this week as I have to drive up north on Wednesday to see a back specialist, at least it will give me some time with Mum which I am really looking forward to, she will also be acting as a guinea pig as I attempt to create some of the dishes away from the comfort of having a teacher on my shoulder! Luckily I will not be missing any cooking as the course outing is on Thursday and the theory day has been moved to Friday, we also have Rachel Allen teaching us on Wednesday so that should be fun.
Well that's it for now, I will check in later in the week and let you know how things are going!
Peace
T