Grains and Pastas

Posted on September 23, 2010 in Uncategorized by alexpauline

Today in lab we worked on a couple of different grains and pasta dishes. first we made a rice pilaf, but instead of rice we used pearled barley. this was a bit strange because, honestly, i’ve never had barley outside of beef and barley soup. i really enjoyed the texture in the dish and the [...]

Breakfast

Posted on September 20, 2010 in Uncategorized by alexpauline

this week in lab we made breakfast foods. we made eggs over easy and a french omlet, which happened to be my favorite part of lab. we also made pancakes and waffles, the waffles were better than the pancakes were but i don’t personally like pancakes so i guess its all about preference. we also had [...]

Potatoes

Posted on September 10, 2010 in Uncategorized by alexpauline

So for our second week of lab, we did our potatoe unit. I’ve always known what a tourne is and how to do it, but i’ve never actually tried to do it until i got to Delhi. My high school teacher wasn’t lying when he said it was the hardest knife cut. When i first [...]

First day of lab

Posted on September 3, 2010 in Uncategorized by alexpauline

So I went into lab yesterday thinking that we were going to sit there and listen to our teacher talk about rules of the kitchen, where everything is, and basicly do nothing, which, we did, but we also practiced our knife cuts. Honestly I was very surprised that we actually went straight to working. I really like [...]