This is what I made for my breakfast home lab. It’s a breakfast hash with peppers onions tomatoes potatoes bacon sausage broccoli and mushrooms. While I was making this, here were so many different things to do and I thought I was gonna burn something. Luckily I didn’t though. I started making this at about 10am and finished at around 11:15am. It probably could’ve been a little faster, but I think it was pretty good for my first home lab.

Mise en place

I first started off by dicing and cutting all my ingredients. Mise en place. I diced the onions and peppers, then sliced the sausage bacon tomatoes and mushrooms, grated the potatoes and cheese. This part was petty easy to manage except when I cut the onions and it made my eyes water. After prepping everything I began cooking. I first stared off by sautéing the onions with some butter. I didn’t want them to be brown but I wanted them cooked. I added in peppers next. I knew my pan was too hot when the peppers started to brown after a few minutes. After the mushrooms were done I transferred all the veggies onto another plate so I could cook the meats.

I cooked the bacon first then added in sausage and at the same time I started frying the potatoes on a different pan. The potatoes took a little longer so I should’ve cooked them at the beginning. I knew the potatoes were done once they were crispy and golden brown in colour. Since all my prep was now finished I layered the potatoes, then veggies, then meat, then tomatoes and finally cracked an egg on top and put that into the oven. While it was cooking I started the dishes and toasted the bread. Once everything was done, I garnished it with some green onion and I served it to my parents.

Overall I think I did pretty well on this. While I was making this I could hear the sounds of sizzling veggies and smell the bacon. I made sure I tasted everything to know if it needed more seasoning or less. I could feel each vegetable size and shape and made sure they were about the same for each one. At the end I could tell that it was a successful lab by looking at it! The hardest part would have to be making sure I didn’t break the egg yolk. The way I did it was I cracked it on top the put it into the oven before putting the cheese on so it had a little time to cook a bit .

This is me and my partners breakfast hash. A breakfast hash is basically anything you want in it and into the oven. During this lab, I got to practice my knife skills. I was in charge of cutting the onion, pepper, bacon and garlic. The most challenging part about this lab is cooking the bacon. At first the bacon was fine in the pan but a few minutes later, it started sizzling. Both me and my partner tried flipping it but the oil from the bacon kept popping. This is were our communication skills were needed.

Communicating is a big apart of cooking, why? If you don’t talk to each other how are you gonna know what to do. Say you were cooking a full meal and nobody talked to each other. Who’s gonna cook this, who’s gonna prep that? The worse thing that could happen is you both end up cooking the same thing. That would just waste your time. Before me and my partner even started cooking we discussed what needed to be done and who was doing what. After agreeing on what each person does we got started. Like I was saying earlier about the bacon. I asked her what I should do and she told me to take it off the heat to let it cool so I could flip it and it worked. If I tried to do whatever I wanted and not discuss among my peers, it would be such chaos and it would never work out. I believe that communication is such a big part of cooking!