Showing posts with label salad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label salad. Show all posts

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 10, 2011

Week 7 into my Cooking Class

Here we are... already into week 7!

The making of all the delicious food has yet to begun! Every week is a new week full of surprises with different food! This week, our group made the split pea soup with smoked sausages and greens! It was... honestly.. the most delicious soup I have ever tasted... :) Our group was highly satisfied with our food! We had lots of Kale left over, so we ended up sauteing the rest with a bit of minced garlic and olive oil. It was delicious!

Here is the recipe for the Split Pea Soup with Smoked Sausage and Greens! Enjoy!

I.C.A.
Ms. Piggy.

SPLIT PEA SOUP WITH SMOKED SAUSAGE AND GREENS


INGREDIENTS:
1                          16 oz bag of dried green split peas
12 oz                    fully cooked Andouille sausage
8 Cups                 low-salt chicken broth
5                          Turkish bay leaves
3 to 4 Cups          Coarsely chopped kale

PROCEDURE:
1. Combine salt peas, whole sausages, 8 cups broth, and bay leaves in a large pot.
2. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring often. cover, reduce heat to low, and simmer until peas are tender, stirring occasionally, 30 to 35 minutes.
3. Transfer sausages to cutting board. Cut lengthwise in half, then crosswise into 1/4 inch thick half-rounds.
4. Puree soup (including bay leaves) 1 cup at a time in a blender until smooth; return to same pot. Add sausages and greens. Thin with more broth if necessary. Simmer soup until greens soften, 3 to 4 minutes.
5. Season to taste with salt and ground black pepper.

Here are the pictures! :)

Making our Split Pea Soup with Smoked Sausage and Greens!

Kale...

Had lots of Kale left over so we sauteed it with a bit of oil and minced garlic!

Ta da! :) it was good! I wished I had some rice when we were eating it though.. :)

Presenting our... SPLIT PEA SOUP! :)

It tastes way better than it looks... :) 

Chickpea and Spinach Stew

Another picture

Butter Bean, Tuna, and Celery Salad

Mediterranean Salad. It was good!

Kale and Cannellini Soup

This was refreshing too! :)

Baked Pita Bread!

Looks like a sunflower!

Hummus number one.

Hummus number two

Hummus number three

DELICIOUSNESS! hahaha

My Delicious plate! like always.. full with lots of food!


Our Split Pea soup!

The Cannellini soup! 

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Week 4 into My Cooking Class

Hello!

 Like the title says, it's already been 4 weeks since I started this cooking class! We finally got to make our first meal last week and made our second meal today! All the food we made turned out SO good that I wanted to share it with everyone!

 This week, we are learning about different types of vegetables and salad dishes! (yum!) Today, we got to try many different salads. Our group had made the Tomato-Watermelon Salad with Feta and Toasted Walnut. This actually turned out very good in the end! I will have the recipe posted up right below and pictures below that. All the food we make in our cooking class is a MUST TRY AT HOME!

 If you guys want any recipes, please leave a comment or email me and I will gladly post them up for you :)

 Here is the recipe for our group's salad.

TOMATO-WATERMELON SALAD WITH FETA AND TOASTED WALNUT


INGREDIENTS:

8 Cups                   1 1/4" chunks seedless watermelon
3 lbs                       Ripe tomatoes (preferably heirloom) in assorted colors, cored, cut into 1 1/4" chunks
1 tsp or needed      Coarse kosher salt
5 Tbs                      Extra-virgin olive oil, divided
1 1/2 Tbs                Red wine vinegar
3 Tbs                      Assorted fresh herbs, chopped (dill, basil, mint)
6 Cups                    Fresh Arugula leaves or small watercress sprigs
1 Cup                     Crumbled feta cheese
1/2 Cups                 Sliced almonds, lightly toasted (walnuts can be used as well)

PROCEDURE:

1. Combine melon and tomatoes in a bowl. Sprinkle with 1 tsp of salt and toss to blend; let stand 15 minutes. Add 4 Tbs oil, vinegar, and herbs to melon mixture. Season to taste with ground black pepper and more salt, if desired.
2. Toss arugula in bowl with remaining 1 Tbs oil. Top with melon salad; sprinkle with feta cheese and toasted almonds and serve.

Here are the pictures taken from today!

Enjoy!

I.C.A.
Ms. Piggy.


Herbs (basil, dill, mint)

Toasted almonds (these little things have so much flavor in them once they are toasted!!)

Crumbled Feta Cheese~~

Our Salad! The Tomato-Watermelon Salad with Feta and Toasted Almonds


One of the group made this! A Bruchetta! It was delicious!

Final Salad. Tomato-Watermelon Salad with Feta and Toasted Almonds

Warm Goat Cheese Salad with Grilled Olive Bread

Close up of the above.

Cabbage and Corn Slaw with Cilantro and Orange Dressing

Close up of the above

Salad Nicoise

Fresh Fruit with Honey-Yogurt


My plate of all the food we made today :) It was so delicious!