Menu project coming up, and I'm procrastinating

The title says it all. I've already gotten the 4 items that I will be doing, but I'm not sure what I'll name them, and I still have to decide on whether to do a shortcake for my fruit dessert, or a flambé, or even sautéed pineapple. I also still have some homework to do, but I think I'll be able to get it done in time. I baked some cookies that turned out pretty well. I would usually use a recipe from my recipe packet, but the only chocolate chip cookie recipe that I had made 5 dozen, and is hard to scale back (1 egg does not easily scale back. >.<). Anyway, I'll post the recipe here, since it turned out great:

Chocolate chip cookies

5 oz butter
4 oz granulated sugar
4 oz brown sugar
1 5/8 tsp salt
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
10 oz pastry flour
3/4 tsp baking soda
10 oz chocolate chips
4 oz chopped nuts (optional)

Preheat the oven to 375F (190C)
Cream together the butter, both sugars, and salt. Add the eggs and stir in one at a time, making sure you scrape the side of the bowl thoroughly between each egg. Add the vanilla, then sift in the pastry flour. Add the chocolate chips, and the nuts if you chose to add them. Drop batter onto oiled sheet pans, and bake 10 to 14 minutes, depending on the size of the cookies.

There you go! Also, Kumoricon was this weekend, and it seemed like there was some problems with security (I didn't go, I couldn't afford it), and space was an issue, too. I hope they solve those things before next year, but I'll still go even if I have to wait 2 hours or more in the cold.

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It works!

It seems windows live writer works, so I'll either be using this to update with, or just updating via the blogspot site. Anyways, I made the images hyperlinks so they wont stretch the page, or take up too much space. I'll also make it so the images open in a new window. Also, I'll update with that is going on in my life. I'm almost done with school, which October 11th is the last day. I've applied for my passport, and I'm waiting for it to come in the mail any day now. No love interests, but I don't really care about that. I'm really looking forward to traveling soon for my externship. I really want to head to either England, New Zealand, Germany, Hawaii, Australia, or Canada. Either way, I don't think I'll be in Oregon this holiday season, which I can live with. I've got to put in 120 externship hours, which is about a couple of months.

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Pictures now, explination later. I'm just too tired.

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How do you get away from it all when you are already in the middle of nowhere?

Why, rent a room, of course! I have been trying to rent a room for a couple of weeks now, and I finally was able to get one last night. It was very comfy, and it had T.V.! It just got a couple of local channels, FOX, and the Discovery channel. The room was also very nice. It was kind of wood themed, and the free shampoo was almond and vanilla.


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A webcam!

I finally got a webcam, so I can take some pictures of myself. I really have changed a lot in the time that I am here.


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Also, the lost hikers were found a ridge over.

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Working very hard...

I have been so busy that I haven't had enough time to update this as much as possible. I'll start out with the bad news around here. A couple of hikers in the sister lodge in Denali went missing last Thursday when they went out on a hike. They are experienced hikers, but they do not know the area. I am hoping that they will get back safely. Also, the kitchen flooded yesterday, as did dry storage. I'm not sure if any food or things were damaged, and I am hoping it stays that way. We still have yet to replace the dishwashers and cooks that have quit, and more are going to be fired soon. I have been able to convince a friend in New Zealand to come and help us out, since he has a bit of experience in food service. I just hope he can come here really soon. I do several jobs at once, and I am moving up to desserts and salads sometime soon (I am taking the place of a woman who is pregnant and swelling like a balloon).

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Finally some down time...

I apologize for not posting recently, as it has become very hectic at the lodge ever since some of our cooks and dishwashers have been quitting randomly. Other than that, it has been pretty exciting. On my last weekend off I went whitewater rafting (which was scary yet fun), and I plan on going to a cruise around Prince William Sound tomorrow. The weather around here is always either mild or cold, which is really enjoyable during the summer when I would usually be sweating profusely if I were back in Oregon. Prepping food has been really simple ever since I started to remember what needed to be done every day, and I am apparently so good at it that I am starting to be trained as a line cook. Here are some pictures I took while walking to lunch on one of my days off:


Some mountains around the lodge. This one is still active.

This is the lodge where I work at.

Even more mountains.

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