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Monday, October 31, 2011

Week 10 into my cooking class!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

It's Monday and here we are again with all the delicious food we made in my cooking class! This week, we learned about poultry, different ways we cook poultry and learned the different ways of cooking flying birds and just ground birds!

Our group made Chicken with Escarole, apples, and potatoes! Also a French dish! Our dish actually came out really good! We thought we did a poor job in the beginning when we had to sear the chicken, but our final product came out really good! Here is the recipe for it! At any time, if you guys want me to send you guys other recipes that the other groups have made (look at the pictures), I will gladly post them up or email you guys! :D

Enjoy!


CHICKEN WITH ESCAROLE, APPLES, AND POTATOES


INGREDIENTS:
12 oz                                          Small new red potatoes
4                                                 8 oz chicken boneless chicken breast with skin (we used chicken thigh)
to taste                                        salt
to taste                                        ground black pepper
as needed                                   Olive oil, for pan-frying chicken
5 Tbsp                                        Unsalted butter
2                                                 Semi-tart apples, peeled, cored, and cut into eights (Empire/Fuji/Macoun)
1                                                 Garlic clove, smashed and peeled
1 lb                                             Escarole, leaves torn
1/2 Cup                                       White wine

PROCEDURE:


1. Heat oven to 250F
2. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add potatoes and cook until tender, about 7 minutes. Drain and place on a plate in a single layer to cool.
3. When potatoes are just cool enough to handle, flatten each one slightly by gently pressing on it with a hand. Set aside.
4. Season chicken with salt and pepper. Heat oil in skillet over medium-high heat. Add chicken, skin side down, in batches if necessary, and cook until skin is golden, about 3 minutes. Transfer to a baking sheet pan, cover with foil, and place in the oven.
5. Drain oil from skillet, return to medium-high heat, and add 2 tablespoons of butter. add only as many apples as will fit in a single layer and cook, turning apples as they brown, until golden on all sides, 3-4 minutes. Transfer to plate. Repeat with remaining apples.
6. Once finished with apples, add 2 more tablespoons of butter to skillet. Add only as many potatoes as will fit in a single layer in skillet, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and cook over medium to high heat, turning once, until potatoes are warmed through and golden, about 2 minutes, per side. Repeat with remaining potatoes, set aside.
7. Add garlic and escarole as you can fit into skillet, increase heat to high, and cook, stirring, until escarole starts to wilt and you can add no more, about 1 minutes. Add remaining escarole and cook until wilted. Add wine and cook until escarole is tender and wine is slightly reduced. Add apples and cook until warmed through, about 2 minutes. remove from heat.
8. Remove chicken from oven and pour any juices from the pan into skillet with escarole and apples. Stir to combine.
9. Plate with potatoes as a base, then top escarole / apple mixture, and chicken. Reduce juices left in a skillet, mount with cold butter, to make a sauce. Pour sauce over chicken.

I.C.A.
Ms. Piggy.


Chicken with Escarole, apples, and potatoes

Our Plating dish!

Buffalo Wings one of the classmates made! It was really good!

Chopped salad with grapes and mint!

Yum!

Chinese Chicken Salad!

mmM~

Chicken Kebabs with Oregano Garlic Marinade and Bastami Rice!

The sauce, chicken kebab, and bastami rice!

yum~

Pasta and Chicken Alfredo!

My Plate. 

ALWAYS SO MUCH FOOD!!!! XD


Monday, October 3, 2011

Week 6 into my Cooking Class

Hi guys!

It's been week 6 into my cooking class and I'm enjoying it more than ever! Cooking all this different type of food is exciting! Even though cooking process takes time and effort... the end result is always satisfying! (especially to our stomachs! ;] )

This week, we made Italian food, Latin food, and French food using grain as main ingredient! Our group made Mexican Pozole! I have never tried this before so I did not know how it tasted or looked like. But my group members knew pozole especially because they make it at home, so I didn't worry too much about our end result!

All I can say is... that we all agreed that it. was. awesome! Very delicious! and I would love to share it with you guys! Try it at home and enjoy!

I.C.A.
Ms. Piggy

MEXICAN POZOLE / MEXICAN


INGREDIENTS:
1.5                                     Garlic Bulb
18 Cups                             Water
6 Cups                               Chicken broth
6 lbs                                   Country Style pork ribs with bones
1.5 Tsp                               Dried Oregano
3 oz                                    Dried New Mexico red chiles
2 1/4 Cups                          Boiling hot water
1                                         Large onion, large dice
4 1/2 Tsp                            Salt
3 (30 oz cans)                     White hominy
1                                         Dozen of corn tortillas
as needed                            Vegetable oil for frying

ACCOMPANIMENTS:
7                                     Avocado
1                                     Large cabbage, finely shredded
2                                     Large onions, finely diced
12                                   Radishes, finely sliced
9                                     Limes, quartered
as needed                        Dried oregano
as needed                        Dried red pepper flakes

PROCEDURE:
1. Peel garlic cloves, and reserve 4 cloves for chile sauce. Slice remaining garlic.
2. In a pot, bring water and broth just to a boil with sliced garlic and pork. Skim surface and add oregano. Gently simmer pork, uncovered, until tender, about 1.5 hours.
3.While pork is simmering, wearing protective gloves, discard stems of chiles and in a bowl combine with boiling-hot water. Soak chiles, turning them occasionally, 30 minutes. In a blender, puree onion with chiles and soaking liquid, along with reserved garlic cloves, and 2 teaspoon of salt until smooth.
4. Transfer pork with tongs to a cutting board and reserve both mixture. Shred pork, and discard bones. Rinse and drain hominy. Return pork to broth mixture and add chile sauce, hominy, and remaining teaspoon of salt. Simmer pozole for 30 minutes and, if necessary, season with salt.
5. While pozole is simmering, cut tortillas into 1/4 inch thick strips, and fry them in the oil until golden.
6. Serve pozole with tortilla strips and accompaniments.

Here are some pictures to look at! :)


Mexican Red Chiles.. these were super hot.

Tortillas!

Cooking the pork in chicken broth!

Radish all sliced and ready!

Hominy, drained and washed.. ready to go!

Baked tortilla chips! the healthy ones...

Fried tortilla chips! the not too healthy ones... :)

AVOCADO slices. mm.. love avocados..
Final Product! :)

Chicken with Rice / Arroz con Pollo! / LATIN

Twas good.

Coconut Corn Fritters with Cilantro Aioli

Twas good as well.

Barely Risotto! This was my favorite!

Apple Crepes with Calvados Butter!

Great way to end the meal!

Mexican Pozole! What our group made :)


What we made :)

All the food we made that day :) It was so good... Drool.

My dish full of deliciousness. haha

yum.

Coffee to eat with my food. <3