A practical exam that's worth drooling over

Advanced Foods students put their pastry skills to the test preparing apple turnovers.  This is always the best grading I ever have to do ;)

Bring on the competition!

Family Foods take on their first cook-off of their culinary careers with the famous Butterscotch Gingerbread Cookies!

Cut that out... No, seriously- cut that out! :)

It's never too soon to perfect knife cuts! Culinary 1 students work to get them done right!

Choco-Riffic Pie

Advanced Foods students take on more pastry skills by preparing Chocolate Meringue Pie

An Ode to Sandwiches by Culinary Arts 2

P is for Patty, It's Good Enough for Me

Culinary 2 students practice their sandwich stations with the classic Patty Melt.

Oh Crepe.

Culinary 2 students are in their Breakfast unit and what better way to celebrate breakfast than with a plate o' crepe.  

Peanut buttery chocolately cerealy...stuff.

If silence wasn't bad enough for their previous lab, now I gave them a recipe without exact measurements! Family Foods students had to work together in determining what they considered a "handful," a "smidge," and a "scoop" of ingredients.  The wonderful ending is that with the ingredients they are given, there really isn't a way for it not to taste good :)

Fancy Frittatas.

Culinary 2 students began their egg unit by combining knife skills with egg cookery by preparing a vegetable frittata.  Since the students never heard of such a thing, it can be easily summed up as throwing a bunch of omelet ingredients together and baking it. Calling it a frittata just makes it fancy ;)

Perfecting Pastry

Advanced Foods students learn the basic techniques of preparing pastry by making cinnamon sticks.  It smelled glorious in my room!

Poach Perfect

Culinary 2 students practice their poaching and Hollandaise sauce skills by preparing Eggs Benedict. 

Silence may not be golden

Rice Krispie treats may not be rocket science, but it definitely is more difficult when you aren't able to talk! In this lab, students had to prepare the recipe without any verbal communication to understand the importance of teamwork/communication in the kitchen.  

Pancake Perfection

Who doesn't like pancakes?! Culinary 1 students take pancakes to new levels as they prepared a variety of this breakfast deliciousness for the first cook-off of the year.