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Originally Posted by cathleenc
Brooken, what do you do to cook for a living? Restaurant? Please share!
I earned my way through college cooking in restaurants and quit the day I got my Masters degree, swearing never to return. I had gotten so fussy and overly critical about everything related to food - way too uptight and particular to enjoy any of it anymore. Cooking only for pleasure and to eat has brought a lot more balance - and a lot less cussing into my life. Still, I miss those days and having a house full of retaurant customers and the pressue of a busy saturday night on the line.... so please share, so I can live vicariously.
Cathy
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I'm a baker/cook for a restaurant. Swanky chocolate martini bar with many many desserts on the menu, also a few savory items such as pizzettas and cheese plates.
I do the bread baking (flatbread and foccacia), assist the pastry chef, and make the savory stuff - roasting red peppers, mushrooms, etc. It's a good gig and I'm totally enjoying it. We're only open for dinner so I'm there during the day prepping and my schedule's fairly flexible as long as I get it all done. I do the line once a week (Sundays, which are no big deal) and I'm happier that way. I'm more suited to long, repetitive zen-like tasks like flatbread than a frantic line full of tickets.
I'm trying to learn as much as I can from the pastry chef, so that if I continue, and fall into a career doing it, so be it!