Fancy Shmancy Dinner

So every year as part of the training course, the culinary class run the "Student Cafe". They have to plan the menus, come up with and debut at least one of their own original recipes, figure out pricing, do the decorating, advertizing, cook and serve the food themselves. The whole operation runs for about 6 weeks. My class won't get to do this till the spring, but we do get the advantage of being able to see what the class ahead of us has to deal with.

Last week Ashley, Cody and I went out for dinner, ironically enough, in our classroom. The theme this year is Italian cooking. I can't pronounce all the names of what we ate...but pretty much it was fancy shmancy grease and cream. Turns out, however, that calimari is actually good. Even after you know what it is. If you don't know what it is though, don't google till you try it.

This first thing is basically mushroom mousse served on shredded, marinaded cucumber. It wasn't too thrilling.

What Cody has is shrimp ravioli something something..I got the steelhead served with gnocci. The gnocci was the best part of the meal!