Thursday at Tazzaria

So today is Thursday and my shift at Tazzaria starts at 4 pm so today I grabbed my pig tails that I smoked over the weekend and blasted to work early and as soon as lunch was done being served I set up a small work area.

I tossed the pig tails in cornstarch and dropped them in the fryer basket. I let them cook for a few minutes and they got just a little crisp on them. I tossed them in sweet chili sauce. Before heading to work I was trying to find some pickeled daicon to finish the tails off.

So I grabbed a bowl and LJ and I took them down stairs to my boss. We talked about what I should do differently but he had never had pigs tail. The awesome thing is that he liked them!! The truth is everyone who ate any of them liked how they came out.

This was an awesome feeling to do something cool and different and people liked it. I look forward to doing it again!

So it is almost 4 pm which means it is time to officially clock on and I already had my prep list for the night and on todays list....Gnocchi.

This is something I have only done one other times with the owner showing me how to do it. So today I made a batch x4 to make sure we have enough to get through the weekend. So I get on all my "mise en place" (look I used a fancy word).


Get the dough made and rolled out and Ryan takes enough for an order and then comes back into the kitchen with a bowl of gnocchi in a sage cream sauce and "here is your finished product". I will be honest......It was good, not dense and a nice texture.

Ryan even had LJ taste it....Even he said I did a good job. It even got back to James that I did a really good job on the gnocchi.

I think the rest of this work week I need to pay attention to Mike & Ryans  line so I can start breaking it down for them and learn where it all belongs......It was a good day at work.