Friday roast

So on Friday in the morning we were assigned to prepare a roast between the four of us on a table, and to make a wild mushroom soup! We started by salting and putting the pork in the oven at 220'c for 25 minutes. When this had gone in, we put some potatoes on to boil. We then prepped our parsnips, carrots and green beans, by chopping and washing them. We had a larges tray of fat in the oven getting nice and hot, so that when the potatoes went in they sizzled! We then got on to our mushroom soup, by cooking the mushrooms until soft in butter. When the mushrooms were soft I added some bread, as this was the soups thickening agent, and some garlic, nutmeg, and white chicken stock that we had made earlier! I let this simmer for about 10 minutes, then liquidized it and sieved it! I then put it back on to heat, let it down to single cream consistency, and seasoned it! It tasted amazing! Then we all got on to clearing up a bit! Michael came around and said the soup was really good, and that my bread from the day before needed a little bit longer to rise, which I new, but there wasn't the time in the cooking session. We then blanched and refreshed our green beans and carrots, the parsnips were already roasting! We got the meat out of the oven about 15 mins early, as it was ready and we left this to rest, wrapped in grease proof paper for about 20 mins. During this time I made the gravy, using the juice from the pork and a bit of extra stock! It tasted delicious! The whole roast was a success I think! Michael said that the pork could have been taken out of the oven even earlier, so we know to check it even earlier next time!
In the afternoon we had a dem on stewing meat, which was really interesting! She showed us how to properly brown meat, and not scorch it. She used lots of techniques like deglazing, which was good to see in practice so many times, she also stressed the importance of reducing the sauce so that it coats the meat, and is not watery! She never seasoned until the end though because she knew she would be reducing the sauce. For my personal taste, everything she prepared was a little too sweet! But otherwise a good dem!