Salads and such

I gotta say I somewhat dreaded tonight's class. Salads. Nothing but salads. No meat in them. Not even cheese.
I'm not big on salad, not big on vegetables either.
But tonight might have cured me of my vitamin/fiber phobia.

Basically there's three types of salad - Salade Simple, Salade Mixte and Salade Composee.
The latter is where it gets a little more intricate.
On a salade composee each item is dressed seperately and arranged in a way that allows each item to stand out.
A good example for that is a Salade Nicoise.

One of our salads tonight called for six items arranged on a plate.
There was cucumber in a mayonnaise based sauce, carrots in a lemon vinaigrette, celery root dressed in a remouladeq etc.

The whole thing looked pretty spectacular and in fact tasted very good - even without meat, cheese or any fried stuff.

Now this will not turn me into a health nut, but I will look at a restaurant's salad menu a little more closely from now on.

All in all today was great - my test came back a 93, good enough.
Unfortunately we will get new partners again on Thursday. Bummer. I really like working with my current one.

A classmate of mine started a very cool messageboard for current FCI students and alumni. Anyone interested in the program should visit this site for info on everything.
The site is brandnew and does not yet have a lot of content but you should bookmark it now and be one of the few in the know.

Here's the link - have fun... http://www.fcistudent.com/forum/index.php