Category: Dinner

The All American Dinner

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My Reflection

This all American dinner I wanted to make included BBQ steak, caesar salad, and a baked potato. I BBQ the steak with my dad and him and I had a fun time together on the cold deck trying not to over cook the steaks. The caesar salad was a simple salad, with a less creamy dressing but a little more olive oil dressing, to change it up. The baked potato were cooked in the oven but par cooked in the microwave to make it faster. I topped the baked potato off with chives, sour cream, and bacon bits. This was a fun and different lab that i have ever done because my family and I don’t usually eat red meat very often so this was a little bit of a change.

Butter Chicken

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This lab was one of my favourite home-labs because my grandmother came over to make the butter chicken sauce with me. This was one of her recipes she’s made for years for my father, so I had asked her to come over to help surprise my dad with this dinner. It was so much fun cooking with my grandmother and was a very new experience because she is a power-house but she trusted me and let me do most of the dinner. I had fun and my father loved this lab and dinner because it brought him back to his childhood.

Chicken Tacos

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These chicken tacos are always a favourite in my home. This time i decided to try and make them. I had fun seasoning the chicken for it to be just right, but it was a bit too spicy. I wasn’t a fan but my dad was. This lab was a little tricky because while the chicken is cooking I wanted to get the other ingredients ready, however the ground chicken cooks very fast so I almost burnt it a few times. I did pretty well this home-lab but my family still prefers my mo to make the tacos.

Pasta and Tomato Sauce

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For this Home-Lab i made a simple penne pasta with a tomato sauce with ground chicken. I made this lab when my mom came home and did not want to cook because she had a long, hard day from work, so i stepped up and helped her out. This tasted really good and i had seasoned the sauce and the ground chicken well. I did not over cook the pasta. My mom and the rest of my family were very appreciative for me, and what I had done.

Dinner Home-Lab

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The main course of my dinner home-lab was lemon and roasted garlic asparagus and chicken with smashed potatoes and a caesar salad. For dessert made a lave cake for my family but unfortunately forgot to take pictures. The smashed potatoes were par-cooked, smashed, then baked. They were drizzled with olive oil, lemon juice, and Italian seasoning. The asparagus and chicken were sauted separate and then simmered together in a garlic, butter, lemon juice and zest, a little bit of brown sugar and chicken stock. This gave the chicken a nice glaze and the asparagus a crispy outside. I made a classic caesar salad with iceberg lettuce, dressing, parmesan cheese, and croutons. After dinner we had a slice of a chocolaty, rich lave cake with a scoop of ice cream. My dinner home-lab went better then i expected because I felt like one dish would be ready before the others and would get cold but I was able to time it properly and it was all ready almost at the same time.

Homemade California Rolls

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Sushi was very unexpected for our foods class because we had never done anything like this before. I believe it is safe to say everybody (including Ms.Bolli) loved this lab! It was not as hard as I thought it would be. The only thing I wasn’t expecting was how sticky the rice was and how hard it was to put on the seaweed evenly everywhere because it kept sticking to my hands. When I was eventually able to spread the rice everywhere and evenly, I was able to slice up the cucumbers very thinly, and Ms.Bolli had the crab mixture for us. Once I placed a small amount of filling at the end of the rice covered seaweed, I was ready to roll my sushi. The rolling went pretty smooth, the seaweed didn’t stick to the rolling mat cover in plastic wrap. Once we watched a video on how to roll the sushi, it made a lot more sense and I was able to roll the sushi tightly in one try. I would love to make this sushi again because it was so much fun and I really enjoyed this. The sushi tasted so good and was very delicious.

Agnolotti Pasta in a Brown Butter Sauce

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This lab was another lab when we had to make our pasta from scratch. This time we filled the pasta squares with a spinach and ricotta cheese filling. The filling was perfectly seasoned and the pasta was nice and thin. The folds help together well with the egg and water wash that was put in between the edges of the pasta. Our agnolotti squares turned out a little bigger then expected but they still tasted so good.

The brown butter sauce was a nice, light coating for the pasta. We added butter, garlic, red chilli flakes and a little bit of salt and pepper. The butter and the seasonings melted and browned in the pan and then the pasta was added to the sauce. we lightly coated the pasta in the butter sauce and served. It tasted really good together and this is a very simple, light and flavourful sauce for a filling pasta.

Pasta Carbonara

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My Reflection

My pasta carbonara turned out pretty well! We had to hand make our own noodles which was quite the process but was really fun. My noodles turned out way better then I expected! I made angel hair pasta because I prefer thinner pasta noodles. I liked this lab and the process of making the pasta because I don’t believe I will receive another opportunity to make my own pasta like this as my family does not have a machine like this. This lab took a lot of team work because we were all new to making pasta like this. The carbonara sauce was new to me because its a very different was to incorporate the pasta and sauce. I needed help from Ms.Bolli and my pasta was the demo for the class which I did not mind because I did not want to mess it up, but Ms.Bolli did it so well and my pasta carbonara tasted so well and was seasoned perfectly!

Mac and Cheese

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Mac and Cheese is one of my favourite things because I’m a very picky eater and this is a very simple thing. My partner and I added chopped spinach and diced bacon. My partner and I added some spice to our cheese sauce and it worked well. We really enjoyed our pasta and I have never made mac and cheese without spinach. I liked this lab because I like to find new flavours to add to certain foods that I eat.

Tomato Soup with Rustic Bread

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The tomato soup was perfect and my favourite soup! My group and I all seasoned it together and it tasted even better then I had ever made it. It was super creamy and blended all the way through with no chunks inside. This lab was really fun and gave my group and I a chance to sit, eat, and talk with each other because we worked fast to get it done. I learned a lot from this lab, not really about cooking but more about my classmates, and group members.

The rustic bread was really easy and simple recipe. I have made this bread before so this time I took a step back and just helped my partner as she took the lead. We were able to have out bread triple in size after it rested overnight. When we cut into our bread, we had air pockets which means the dry ingredients were sifted enough to add extra air! This bread tasted so amazing with the tomato soup!