SOMETIME’S YOU GOTTA DO WHAT YOU GOTTA DO!
If you have read my last entries on my blog you will know that I have left the place where I trained for my apprenticeship, by no means was this an easy decision it was by far one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do.
Leaving everything I’d ever known and moving on out of my comfort zone was never going to be easy I guess I just always thought I wouldn’t leave until I was ready to go overseas, however I did make the choice to leave before I had planned.
I’m now working at a local pub in the bistro there, I love it! I’ve made new friends and once again enjoy cooking and am finding my passion again! To be completely honest it is not the kind of food I want to do, but by making this small sacrifice which I am willing to do make it all okay and a new experience. I miss doing the fine dining food but I have learnt that you should take every opportunity and learn to take the best from every decision you make. I am now enjoying less hours, less responsibility and more money all for one small sacrifice.
MY THOUGHTS ARE THIS ON PUB FOOD: Just because you’re eating pub food doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be getting the best of the chef in the kitchen, so if you’re at a pub and your meals not right send it on back or complain, we can’t fix what we don’t know about, having said that just because you are at a pub doesn’t mean you’re meal shouldn’t be perfect or your steak shouldn’t be cooked exactly the way you like it!
So Parma’s, Kiev’s, stir fry’s are now what I’m cooking and we feed at least 50 people per night, weekends however are completely a different story, you’re looking at, at least over 100 people per night on Friday, Saturday and Sunday’s again I was not use to feeding so many people but don’t for 1 second think I thought it was easy, I mean you feed all these people all within 2 hours. I’m glad I was taught in my apprenticeship that setting up ready for service was an essential skill and asset of being a good chef.
This small sacrifice is all part of getting where I want to go, that’s right you guessed it Europe so it looks as though I could be flying out as early as end of June 2008. But don’t stress guys there will be a going away party, but strictly invite only so no invite no entry!
Leaving everything I’d ever known and moving on out of my comfort zone was never going to be easy I guess I just always thought I wouldn’t leave until I was ready to go overseas, however I did make the choice to leave before I had planned.
I’m now working at a local pub in the bistro there, I love it! I’ve made new friends and once again enjoy cooking and am finding my passion again! To be completely honest it is not the kind of food I want to do, but by making this small sacrifice which I am willing to do make it all okay and a new experience. I miss doing the fine dining food but I have learnt that you should take every opportunity and learn to take the best from every decision you make. I am now enjoying less hours, less responsibility and more money all for one small sacrifice.
MY THOUGHTS ARE THIS ON PUB FOOD: Just because you’re eating pub food doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be getting the best of the chef in the kitchen, so if you’re at a pub and your meals not right send it on back or complain, we can’t fix what we don’t know about, having said that just because you are at a pub doesn’t mean you’re meal shouldn’t be perfect or your steak shouldn’t be cooked exactly the way you like it!
So Parma’s, Kiev’s, stir fry’s are now what I’m cooking and we feed at least 50 people per night, weekends however are completely a different story, you’re looking at, at least over 100 people per night on Friday, Saturday and Sunday’s again I was not use to feeding so many people but don’t for 1 second think I thought it was easy, I mean you feed all these people all within 2 hours. I’m glad I was taught in my apprenticeship that setting up ready for service was an essential skill and asset of being a good chef.
This small sacrifice is all part of getting where I want to go, that’s right you guessed it Europe so it looks as though I could be flying out as early as end of June 2008. But don’t stress guys there will be a going away party, but strictly invite only so no invite no entry!
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