Tuesday

Alright how are all of you readers out there doing? So while I am well aware the name of this blog is Dinner in the eyes of a CIA student I'm sort of being forced into talking to you about my lunch lately. I am an a.m. student and i have been spending the morning and early afternoon hours making soups, and stocks and mashed potatoes and such. So once my chef tastes and evaluates me on all of them I eat the rest, and then half an hour later find myself eating a huge lunch with desert and all. So therefore I havent been taking the time to go to dinner. I could talk to you about what I eat on break around 8 oclock while on break at courtside cafe. However i dont think chicken tenders and fries, or quesadillas are what you expect to read about so I will spare you.
As of lately Ive become a fan of going to the Skills 3 kitchen downstairs, theyre fast, its generally good, and the deserts in the dining room downstairs are always much better. So today I decided to have a slice of beef tenderloin with a potato gratine and cauliflower. Everything on the entree course was great. The brown sauce with the tenderloin was perfect, the cauliflower was tender but not gritty, and even I enjoyed the potato gratin which doesn't happen often. My problem with the meal was the watermelon salad that accompanied the dish as an appetizer. The watermelon wasn't exactly cold and it was rather gritty, to start. However my problem with the dish was the vinegarette and red onions the melon was covered in. I dont think they worked well togethor, maybe it was the quality of the watermelon that ruined it for me but as the chef came around looking to see how everything was she found me scraping the salad onto the rest of my plate. She thinks the dish is perfect and refreshing, I suppose we are all entitled to our own opinions.