{"id":1033,"date":"2010-09-03T17:57:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T21:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2010-09-03T17:57:54","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T21:57:54","slug":"culinary-school-graduation-stolen-brownies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/culinary-school-graduation-stolen-brownies\/","title":{"rendered":"Culinary School Graduation & Stolen Brownies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yum just about sums it up for this graduation!\u00a0 Wednesday night my sister, Marissa, finished her in school courses.\u00a0 Now all that’s left is her externship which she is going to do here<\/a>.\u00a0 Um, can we go and eat there now please?\u00a0 I am so happy for Marissa because she is so happy and finally after years of boring HR work for numerous financial institutions she is getting out from behind that desk and into a kitchen.\u00a0 I mean she will start off at the bottom but still it beats a 9-5 job any day when you get to create something & go off to work knowing you are doing something that you love.\u00a0 It really doesn’t seem like work then does it?\u00a0 I should know:)\u00a0 I cannot wait until I can move into photography full time-doing something that I love.\u00a0 I am patiently waiting for that day to come.<\/p>\n

First we got to sample the sangria- which was fantastic and a bonus because we didn’t know there was going to be alcohol there:)<\/p>\n

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Then we got to sample all the different appetizers and desserts that the students made.\u00a0 How delish do these look- that is such Rachel Ray phrase!\u00a0 Ha.\u00a0 And see those brownies on the bottom left, well we got to take some home.\u00a0 However Chris ate them ALL<\/em>.\u00a0 Didn’t even leave 1 for me!\u00a0 He is such a thief but I still love him:)<\/p>\n

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This is what my sister made- crab salad with avocado and heirloom tomatoes.\u00a0 So good I had to have 2.<\/p>\n

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All the chef hats waiting to be put on.<\/p>\n

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Ta-da.\u00a0 Now you are official and the go-to chef in the family.<\/p>\n

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Kiss the cook or er chef!<\/p>\n

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My mom was able to make the trip up which was a surprise for my sister!\u00a0 We didn’t think she could make it since she had a doctor appointment and treatment that day.\u00a0 Good news though!\u00a0 She found out this same day the chemo is working!\u00a0 All of our prayers are being answered.\u00a0 Thanks for all your thoughts and concerns- she is doing really well and now with this news even better.\u00a0 It was a long 3 months to wait and see if all of this chemo was going to help but it is and the doctors are very pleased with her progress.\u00a0 She was so glad to come and see Marissa on her special day:)\u00a0 We were all crying at one point.<\/p>\n

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My dad took this one of us.<\/p>\n

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I kinda wish Marissa was also in focus here but I was shooting wide open at 1.4 so the focus was on Mike and I love his expression.\u00a0 He can be grill master but not head chef:)\u00a0 Sorry Mike.<\/p>\n

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Congratulations again Marissa!\u00a0 May all your culinary dreams come true.\u00a0 Best of luck and when can we come for some food?<\/p>\n

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Yum just about sums it up for this graduation!\u00a0 Wednesday night my sister, Marissa, finished her in school courses.\u00a0 Now all that’s left is her externship which she is going to do here.\u00a0 Um, can we go and eat there now please?\u00a0 I am so happy for Marissa because she is so happy and finally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,60],"tags":[59,5,63],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-parties-events","tag-nj-food-photographer","tag-nj-photographer","tag-nyc-photographer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1054,"href":"https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions\/1054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}