...I am officially a culinary graduate.

Geez, has it really been since September that I've updated?

Well, like I said I graduated (Summa Cum Laude even) and managed to avoid screwing up my speech during the ceremony. =)

I'm currently working at a Puerto Rican-Cuban restaurant at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront called Mojito Cafe (http://mojitocafevb. ( Read more... )

So here's the final product. I'm not 100% happy with it, not even close, but it got the job done.

http://members.cox.net/rsnahra4/R2-Project-2.jpg

But what matters my opinion? Ask the Birthday Girl who I'm sure would say it was R2-Delicious... Leave a comment  1 

For those unaware, I've taken it upon myself to create an R2-D2 cake for my baby niece's 2nd birthday. She loves the little guy so I figured I'd give her a birthday to remember ( Read more... )

To say I've neglected LiveJournal is akin to saying Custer faced a lot of Cheyenne and Lakota--a bit of an understatement. And since I'm battling a mild case of insomnia caused by an early afternoon power nap and disinterest in completing school projects (if anyone has a good idea for a 4-page research paper concerning some aspect of gastronomy, ( Read more... )

...of the first class of the Culinary Institute of Virginia starting in September!

/bounces off the walls until he explodes leaving only giblets that continue the incessant ricochet of joy

After Johnson and Wales University (http://www.jwu.edu) closed the doors of its Nofolk, VA campus to relocate to Charlotte, NC, I figured I'd missed my chance of attending culinary school and settled in, uncomfortably, at my former position at Canon. Well, lo and behold, the school is being ( Read more... )

Spinach and Feta Bobboli Pizza:

http://members.cox.net/rsnahra4/pizza.jpg

(Click the link since I've forgotten how to resize a jpg in HTML)

...since I'm still recovering from an unknown bug, but I had to comment on this Yahoo! article ( Read more... )

And to that end, today I tender my letter of resignation. Six years and two months I've been here. Far too long ( Read more... )

...I almost died twice, had my house struck by lightning, and may have lost all valuable information on my computer along with the destruction of two televisions, one VCR, one VCR/DVD combo, a fax machine, several telephones, and two cable boxes. The interruption in my normal routine has me irked and a bit blue, but at least I've gotten back into ( Read more... )