Last week!

Yesturday, the students went to a farm and we picked peaches. The peaches were fresh and sweet. Today we made chicken stock, did green beans, and we made salsa. Tomorrow the group is going to the pool and have a pinic for lunch. Just having a fun tomorrow. This week been good esperince working at SLU.

Pasta Day

Today was a huge learning experience for everyone today. Chef Steve taught us all how to make pasta from scratch and also how to make ravioli's and tortellini's starting off with flattened dough making rectangles , stuffing the dough and folding one half over to close into a ravioli or tortellini. We also made sauces marinara sauce, a carbonara sauce that has bacon in it and a basil sauce to put over the pasta. Today was a good day the food we made was excellent.
 

Im Beet

Monday what more can I say. Today we were broken up into two groups. One group helped make icing and a garlic spread for a trans-fat study, and the other group processed beets. The beet group had to peel, roast, and slice beets so that they could be packaged and frozen. The icing group had to make a vanilla icing and a garlic spread and put them in individual cups for the trans-fat study. Today was pretty straight forward until it came to the cleaning up part. I didn't know how hard it was to clean up beet juice and sticky icing but I sure did find out. My hands are still sticky as I write this post.

"Culinary Day"

Today was culinary day. We learned how to poach eggs. Steve showed us how to scramble eggs, make an omelet, and sunny side up eggs. Everyone got into groups of two and made lunch. One group made buttermilk biscuits, another made white gravy and thee other group  made potatoes. Over all it was a good day, playing with eggs.

"TestDay"

Today we tested the scones for our entrepreneur project . We did chocolate chip scones, blueberry scones, and herb cheese scones. After making some adjustments we baked off some more.  We also made signs for when we sell them tomorrow. Which will be at SLU's garden off Compton  and we also will be selling  herb tea. We will be there from 11:00am to 1:00pm.. Money collected well go to SLU's scholarships. PLEASE VISIT :-)

Hot and Corny!!!

Today we visited the fresh gatherings garden. It was very hot outside so the walk seemed longer than it really was. When we got there we were introduced to a women named Marilyin who gave us a tour of the garden. We got to see all  the different types of herbs, fruits, and veggies that were grown in the garden. We got to try some of the things in the garden like, fresh mint, citrus, and my favorite tomatoes. After the tour was over we went over to the fresh gatherings building and took a brief tour. The food was great there and it really did taste fresh. We came back to peel and process lots and lots of corn.

Your Baking Me Crazy!!

Today we did a lot of baking. Vanilla, and cinnamon muffins to be exact, we helped Kim bake off muffins for a trans fat study. Although it took awhile and a few tweaks we finally had a good muffin mix. I had the pleasure of cleaning and organizing the walk-in refrigerator. It was a very cold job but, luckily it wasn't that much to be done. We also made some chicken stock for the stew we will be making for our lunch tomorrow. As usual we cleaned up the kitchen and called it a day.