My day today

If you've ever wondered why I want to own my own restaurant, you'd have to understand what it's like to work for someone else.

The head chef at my job wanted to serve a special ceviche today. There's a lot of prep work involved in making ceviche and we didn't get our shipment of Chilean sea bass until just before we opened. Ordinarily we'd have one of the line cooks working on getting the prep work done, but it just wasn't possible since we had to get other meals prepared. So I spent the better part of the afternoon cutting up Chilean sea bass and putting together the marinade, which I made with limes and a little bit of pummelo, which is also sometimes called Chinese grapefruit. That's tough on my hands, let me tell you!

I'm hoping that Mike is available later on, but he has to work some really late hours. That's the problem with being a hedge fund manager. The time we have together is pretty special, though....

I'm new to this blogging thing, but

My boyfriend Mike says it's a lot of fun. He's been doing it for about a year now. I'm not sure what I am going to blog about, but I think it would be fun. His blog is called Stinger Nation. I'd link to it, but I don't know how to do that yet. I'll learn, though!

I can tell you a little bit about myself. I grew up in Maplewood and graduated from North St. Paul High School, then I went on to study at the real CIA, the Culinary Institute of America. I'm hoping to eventually start my own restaurant, but right now it's a tough time to start something like that, so I'm happy to be back in the Twin Cities. Right now I'm working part time as a sous chef at a hotel dining room in Minneapolis, but someday I'll be fulfill that dream!

Hey la, hey la

My boyfriend's back! He's returned from a trip East. Hope he brought me some sugar....