Today was the AP English Language and Composition exam. I'll tell you, without disclosing any information about the exam of course, that it was not my favorite experience. It was a lot of complex analysis and an immense amount of writing. I wrote nearly a dozen pages in the span of two hours. Although the experience was tedious, I hope that my scores reflect my efforts and I am able to be absolved of English seminar course responsibilities once I get to college. Today marks the last of my two AP Exams and I will be returning to the kitchen tomorrow morning. It's time to get back to sourdough, vegetable lasagna and olives.
Today was not particularly pivotal moment in my senior project experience, but another step in the right direction all the same. I started the morning by preparing my soup. That entailed retrieving the prepared mirepoix of vegetables from yesterday, cubing beef and potatoes, and also grabbing the excess pork, vegetable stock and barley. I steamed the potatoes and glazed the beef with red wine. I boiled my stock, mirepoix and beef, while roasting the potatoes and cooking the barley separately. While this was all going on, I also needed to prepare for my sausage action station at lunch. I unpacked the vegetables and onions that I had prepared yesterday and sautéed them up, frequently stirring up the mixture with a pair of tongs. I then worked on a apple-cabbage-lemon coleslaw to go with the sausages. This entailed a mild mixture of red and and green cabbage with diced apples, lemon zest, lemon juice, red onion and salt, all the while soaking the apples in lemon juice to prevent thei...
You want to get out of English seminar courses in college? Say it isn't so!!!!
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