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Deglazed Deglazed Have you ever dreamed of giving up your job to become a professional chef? That is what I did, and this is my blog that chronicles my misadventures as I follow my lifelong dream. Articles
An Unexpected Benefit
2007-07-10 20:18:00 Another day came to a close, and I was bushed. This had been an exceptionally long Sunday for me - over 13 hours in the kitchen - and it was the end of what seemed like an exceptionally long week. (Remember, I work Wednesday through Sunday…) All I wanted to do was head on ... More About: The Story , Benefit
One More Experiment Before the Wife Returns
2007-06-30 03:30:00 My God, she has been away a long time, hasn’t she?… As I mentioned in my last post about food experimentation at home, I mentioned that I wanted to try a turkey burger recipe that I had a modification for that I first read about on Avocado Green Oven. The idea was simple, make a ... More About: Recipes , Wife , Experiment , Turn , Fore
Kitchen Inked.
2007-06-26 13:11:00 This will teach my wife to go out of town and leave me alone for two weeks… Some of my longer-term readers will remember the article I wrote on chef’s tattoos, and how I was interested in getting one myself after my boss had used a lunch break one day for the purpose of inking his ... More About: Kitchen , The Story , Chen
The Recipe for a Rough Day
2007-06-25 15:27:00 In general, Sundays are rough days for me anyway. I have to open the restaurant, but also set up the sauté and pantry stations, and then work them through lunch. So in essence, Sunday mornings have me doing the work of two people normally. I don’t mind the extra work ? it?s ... More About: Recipe , The Story , Reci
The Hopsicle Saga Begins
2007-06-23 04:29:00 Perhaps some of you have actually heard of my restaurant in the news as of late. It is amazing how a little story has blossomed into something so big. When I came on board at Rustico, Frank (the executive chef) told me that one of the main focuses of the restaurant was to find unique ways ... More About: The Story , Saga
Experimenting While the Wife?s Away
2007-06-20 04:30:00 My first niece: Myriam Catherine HoehnWhat a cutie! I’m now an uncle! My lovely wife’s sister just recently gave birth to a lovely little girl, and thus I am now an uncle. But I haven’t met my niece yet though as she (and her parents) live in Albuquerque, NM - and that is where ... More About: Recipes , Wife , Away , While , Peri
Back to WWF
2007-06-18 15:52:00 They say you can never go home again, and in some ways, I guess they?re right. I keep in touch with several friends from my “previous life,” seeing as how I worked along side many of them for eight years, but I still had not been back to the building in the full year ... More About: Back , The Story
Slap My Momma Fried Chicken
2007-06-12 14:53:00 I am sure some of you are wondering about the title of this post, and let me assure you; all will be explained. And no, I have not performed any violence against my mom. (Hasn?t she suffered enough already?…) A plate of fresh fried chicken. As much a sign of summer’s arrival as fireflies. In recognition ... More About: Recipes , Chicken , Fried , Fried Chicken , Momma
Heavy is the Head?
2007-06-10 03:38:00 As the first person to arrive in the morning at the restaurant, I find myself as the de facto one in charge simply because I have the key to the door. It is a new experience for me to have to be the “go to guy” for all the problems that present themselves in the ... More About: Recipes , Head , The Story , Heavy
One Year of Deglazed
2007-06-09 01:57:00 Yesterday was the one year anniversary of Deglazed. Wow, how far we’ve come in that time! I started out with only the idea I was going to try and become a chef, and I was still in culinary school. A year later, I have worked in three kitchens, am a culinary school ... More About: Year
New Pants
2007-06-05 21:03:00 The traditional checker-board pattern of chef’s pants. YAWN! After two years of culinary school and almost one year on the job as a cook, my standard-issue checkered style chef’s pants just aren’t cutting it any more. The stains in them are deep and dark, to the point where one might actually think the original ... More About: Pants
I?s Graduated!
2007-06-03 05:36:00 Maybe I need a photo with a chef’s hat on some diplomas and such… You may now all officially call me “chef”. In fact, I think I will require it. Of course I am kidding, but as of today, I am officially a graduate of Stratford University’s Culinary Arts Program. The graduation ceremony was this morning, but I ... More About: The Story , Adua
A Day Off
2007-05-29 03:20:00 It has been pretty much ten straight days on the job to get things started for my tenure at Rustico. Technically I had a day off on Wednesday, but I went in anyway to work on some spreadsheets for the inventory for the new menu. It was nice not to be pounding away ...
Embracing the Heat
2007-05-23 02:26:00 I forgot what it felt like to stand in front of a hot sauté line. But the sweet kiss of sweat rolling down my forehead welcomed me back to the line this past Sunday. So much is happening at Rustico so fast for me, it is almost impossible for me to sum up. ... More About: Heat
Day 1 At Rustico
2007-05-19 04:20:00 The alarm clock awoke me at the ungodly hour of 6:15, and I struck out the door with hopes that I had left myself enough time to get to work for my first day on time. My commute is now 25 minutes each way, and thankfully I seem to be missing rush hour by ... More About: Rust
Vero?s End
2007-05-17 21:55:00 Well, my time at Vero has come to an end. Those of you who read these posts closely may be wondering what I mean, seeing as how today was supposed to be my last day. Well, you are right, today was supposed to be it, but Thursday night is the slowest night of the ...
Two Ingredients I?m Taking With Me
2007-05-16 15:29:00 Every chef is different and composes flavors in unique and characteristic ways. Just as you could identify which chef made your dish by the fingerprints he may have left on the side of the plate, you can also identify a specific chef’s handiwork by the spices, sauces or special ingredients he chose to use. ... More About: Ingredients , King , Taking , Ingredient
What I?m Not Going to Miss
2007-05-14 16:21:00 Of course I am sad to be leaving Vero (only three days left!) as they have been a great group of people to work with and for. But since we are all human, it can’t possibly be the case that everything there was 100% perfect, right? Some of you have been writing me ... More About: Miss , Going , Goin
One Week Left at Vero?
2007-05-10 16:59:00 I told you there was big and exciting news afoot! Yes, in an announcement that I’m sure is a surprise to most of you, I have put in my notice at Restaurant Vero and am moving on to a new job at Rustico Restaurant and Bar in Alexandria. I actually told Joy I ... More About: Left , Week
Trotting Off to Turkey?
2007-04-27 05:01:00 I’m going to Istanbul. (Not Constantinople) Hey there Deglazed fans, I am off to Turk ey for the next week and a half, so alas, no updates for a little while. (This is going to totally ruin my blog rankings…) I am excited to sample all of the great culinary wonders of Istanbul, and hopefully ... More About: Rotti
The Early Shift
2007-04-25 06:05:00 My cell phone rang at 7:40 AM this morning. This would normally annoy me to no end as that is time I usually have reserved for sleeping, but I was up this particular morning. I was going in with the early shift today. Because I am going on vacation next week, I am a ... More About: Early , Shift , Earl
The Amazing Range of Carolina Cuisine
2007-04-20 17:20:00 I just took a trip back down to Durham, NC - where I went to college - just to see some old friends who still lived there. Some of them have babies now, so it was good to meet them as well, but when asked what it was I wanted to do there by ... More About: Cuisine , Amazing , Carolina , Carol , The A
Thank You All!
2007-04-16 16:44:00 window.document.getElementById('post-385' ).parentNode.className += ' adhesive_post';Well, the votes were counted, and you all came through huge! Deglazed is now officially the “Best Food, Wine & Cooking Blog” in the “Best of Blogs” competition. Gold stars all around people! I could not ask for a better readership - your support has been truly astounding and ... More About: Thank You , Hank
Shout-Outs
2007-04-12 16:34:00 A few stories here that relate to other great blogs you should be reading. First off, to my good friends at the Rachael Ray Sucks Community I want to share this funny story. The other night in the kitchen, Dave (another chef) made a squirt bottle of extra virgin olive oil for use ... More About: Shout
Back to Tirolo
2007-04-10 18:11:00 Some say you can never go home again, and since I had left Cafe Tiro lo back in November, I had not been back. Yes, even though it is my next door neighbor who runs the place, and I was friends with many of the people there, I just hadn’t had a chance to be ... More About: Back , Tirolo , Tirol , Rolo
My First Birthday
2007-04-08 22:11:00 Well, it was actually my thirty-first birthday, but it was my first one as a chef. I mentioned how only the night before, I had started the wheels turning on quite the practical joke, so I figured that I was due for some serious harassment myself. I arrived at the regular time, but to stay ... More About: Birthday , Birth , First
Practical Jokes
2007-04-06 17:26:00 The jokes that are told in the kitchen are generally of the type that I won’t be sharing here. Mainly because my mother reads this blog, and because I am sure you have heard all these jokes before at one time or another. If you want some examples of the humor styles exhibited, you ... More About: Jokes , Joke
Social Life? What Social Life??
2007-04-03 20:04:00 I am a night owl by nature. I don’t do mornings. And by “mornings” I mean ?anything that goes on before 10AM.? So on the one hand, making the move to becoming a professional chef who works the dinner shift made a lot of sense for me. I would be working ... More About: Social , Life , What , Hat , Soci
Deglazed - A Best of Blogs Finalist!
2007-04-02 16:48:00 window.document.getElementById('post-360' ).parentNode.className += ' adhesive_post'; Deglazed has been nominated as a finalist for the 2006 Best of Blog s Awards in the category of “Best Food, Wine and Cooking Blog”. This is a tremendous honor to even be nominated as a finalist, but hey, I would also love to be a winner! So please head on ... More About: List , Final
Creative Differences
More articles from this author:2007-03-31 15:52:00 As a chef at a fine restaurant, I am able to create a huge array of different dishes with lots of creative spins and ideas associated with them. It is probably the best perk of the job, that I am allowed to flex my “creative muscle” in the kitchen to some degree. A ... More About: Creative , Differences , Difference , Ferenc , Diff 1, 2, 3, 4 |
