Dirty Tuesdays: Fresh Herbs

Ever since I started doing the dinner service at work I've come to know which dishes I like plating up, which ones I don't and what sort of qualities things need to have in order to make service easier. My favourite dish to make is the house salad because the end result is a very impressive, vertical looking salad. I don't make the salads, but some of them look unappealing. I will wait until I've been there for more time before making suggestions.

In light of this little discovery, I've been experimenting with salads each week for Hey-Hey Tuesdays.

This week's little gems in a rosemary roasted-potato salad with roasted onions, lentils, parsley and brown rice (left) and (right). The latter dish was really meant to have a sort of sauce with it, but I really had about zero energy left by the time I got to finishing the less-than- spectacular sweet potato gnocchi.

Yesterday I had my assessment for stocks, soups and sauces and while everything I made was acceptable, none of it was exceptional. Not to make up excuses or anything, but how about having enough equipment for everyone to use!

Boy, am I glad the vegan challenge is over! I really didn't have nearly as much time as I would have liked! It was more of a chore than a fun project.