Tuesday, March 27, 2012

What I have been making at school so far

We are getting to the point where we are in the kitchen every day; sometimes twice a day.  We started with stocks, then sauces, then soups.  Next we starting making salads and sandwiches.  Now we are finishing up appetizers and just starting egg dishes.

This is our first day for sauces.  We made hollandaise, and the derivative bearnaise; mayonnaise and the derivatives cocktail sauce and tartar sauce; espagnol and the derivative demi glaze.

More sauces

We moved on to soups.  We have cold potato and leak soup (left) and Gazpacho

Scotch Broth and Minestrone

Pumpkin puree soup and lentil puree soup

Nicoise salad and Greek salad

Waldorf salad

Then we moved on to sandwiches.  Club sandwich in the front, steak sandwich in the back right.

"submarine" sandwich.  It was pretty close to an Italian sub, considering there is no pork allowed at the school

Appetizers, and so many of them.  There is tuna mouse, cucumber, smoked salmon, brie cheese and grapes

Spanakopita has a spinach and feta filling wrapped in Filo pastry.  The spring rolls are filled with veggies and deep-fried.  The Lamb samosa was also deep fried.

Vietnamese spring rolls made with the most delicate edible paper.  Tortilla rolls made with bells peppers and little too much green chillies.  Crepe rolls made with a spinach and cream cheese mixture.  Crepes are not super easy to make fyi.

On the left is a stuffed portobello mushroom. In the back is vol au vent (pastry stuffed with a really yummy chicken cream sauce).  On the right is tarte tartin.  Basically you make ratatouille, then put it in a small pie dish, then put pastry dough on top, bake, and flip it over before serving it.

Souffle

The left is broccoli, onion, and cheese quiche.  The right is spinach, onion, and goat cheese quiche.


hungry yet?

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