Carmyn Buckman – Portfolio

A digital portfolio following Carmyn Buckman's culinary development

  • 08/25/2026

    This is my first attempt at fabricating duck. I separated the wings between the flats and drumettes, removed the leg and thigh quarters, removed the breasts and tenderloins, and split the carcass beneath the ribs for stock.

  • 08/18/2026

    For this dish, I browned both sides of the chicken supreme and all sides of the wings, began the sauce by sauteeing the mushrooms and shallots, and adding the chicken stock, wine, and cognac, then finishing the chicken in the oven while sitting in the sauce. Once the chicken reached the proper internal temperature, I finished the sauce with beurre manie, tomatoes concassee, tarragon, and parsley.

  • 08/18/2026

    This is my first attempt at a whole roast chicken. I stuffed an herb butter beneath the skin on the breasts and basted with butter and the chicken fat from roasting throughout the roasting process. I carved the chicken into a traditional eight pieces and made the drippings and mirepoix from roasting into a pan gravy.

  • 08/11/2026

    During this lesson, we practiced trussing chickens for roasting, then fabricated the chicken by disjointing the wings between the flats and drumettes, removing the wing tips from the flats, making supremes from the breasts and removing the tenders, and removing the leg and thigh quarters from the carcass and deboning them.

  • 02/17/2026

    This was one of the entrees on our Mardi Gras special menu. It features a cajun shrimp skewer, red beans and rice with andouille sausage, and a cajun trinity salad with a lemon vinaigrette.