June 12

Cooking at home #7

For this weeks cooking at home assignment i decided to show you something i do everyday in the kitchen, which it make breakfast. I usually have pretty simple breakfasts so making breakfast was pretty easy, the only challenge I had was remembering to make breakfast everyday. Some days I sleep in really late so I kind of miss the opportunity to make breakfast and some days I’m just too lazy. To help myself remember this week I set an alarm in the morning to remind myself to.

June 5

Cooking At Home #7 Family food Tradition

So since my family doesn’t have many family food traditions I made a food that my family eats a lot! I made a creamy tomato and alfredo sauce over twisty noodles. A success i had was cooking the pasta just right. At first I thought I overcooked it, but when I tried it was perfect. An improvement for I would want to make is that since my sauce a little too salty, I would add less.

May 28

Cooking at Home #5

For this assignment I made fried rice with leftover rice and shrimp I had from dinner a couple nights prior. I already had most of the other ingredients I put in the rice except green onions. So I had to go to the store for that. A success I had was my mise en place in the beginning, all my ingredients were prepared and ready to go in the pan before I started. The only thing I would’ve changed is adding more shrimp because I don’t think I added enough.

May 11

Cooking at Home #4

For this cooking at home assignment I made brigadeiros! Brigadeiros are a brazilian dessert made with cocoa powder and condensed milk. My mom has made them a couple times before so I thought I’d try it myself. I used a recipe for this. If I was to make this again I would use different types of sprinkles instead of just vanilla ones. Rolling the brigadieros was a bit tricky because they kept sticking to my hands but it wasn’t that hard to get around. I am proud of myself for making this successfully and how well it turned out because I was a bit worried that I would burn the mixture.

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/24052/brigadeiro/

April 28

Cooking at Home #2

For this lab I decided to use what I already had. Yesterday my mom and I made tortellini for dinner, there was leftovers so I added some tomato sauce and melted shredded cheese over it. It was definitely better then it looks.

February 27

Communication

During this lab we made oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. It was our first lab and it went well. Our measurements were good except for the fact that I dropped the oats on the tray. They were cooked really evenly and were delicious. The challenges were probably trying to make the cookies the same size when we balled them up and put then on the cookie sheet, but in the end they all turned out relitively the same size. Communication was a bit of a struggle because we all were still getting used to the kitchen and the equipment. Sometimes we would forget where things were or forget who had to do what steps but we tried our best to figure it out. Communication is important for labs because if you don’t communicate well, sometimes the lab might take longer then expected or you might forget some steps. In order to have good communication you have to make sure that when you are confused about something, you ask a question and don’t just expect the other group members to figure it out and if you notice someone doing something incorrect, you correct them.

February 27

Safety and Sanitation

For the Safety and Sanitation I chose the omelette lab. During this lab we had to cut up varies types of vegetables, fry them, and then place them in a fried egg. My omelette tasted really good and I think the vegetables were cooked evenly and well. The challenges were folding the egg over the vegetables without it spilling over, I added a lot of vegetables so I think thats why I had trouble doing that. The safety concerns for this lab is knife safety, you have to hold your knife a certain way to prevent cutting yourself and I stayed focused during this part and made sure I was holding the knife correctly. To ensure everything was safe we had to make sure the stove was at the correct temperature and that we were being safe with the knives.