Entries from August 2009
August 23, 2009
Blueberry Muffins – LAB DAY!!!!
Great muffins and a cute card. The first lab of the semester is always interesting. I never know what to expect. A very quiet shy body can turn into a firecracker in the kitchen. I’ll see a leader emerge in each group or some may look at them as “control freaks”… whatever…it is the in [...]
August 20, 2009
Muffins and Getting to Know Your Kitchen
Today was the first demo of the semester. I made muffins from a box. ” Why?” So you think I should be making these from scratch. I will later. This is a great way for the students to get to know who they will be working with, get familiar with their kitchen and figure out exactly how they will be graded. [...]
August 20, 2009
MEASURING INGREDIENTS
OK THIS COULD BE A BORING SUBJECT. But it is necessary to those who have never stepped foot into the kitchen. Believe me I have seen almost every kind of mistake that can be made by measuring incorrectly. So I am giving you the basics here. Measuring can make or break a recipe especially when baking. Even a [...]
August 13, 2009
Potato Salad and Tailgating
We went to the Braves game last night and at the last minute I decided that we should tailgate. We have not done that in years. I did nothing fancy. I sliced garden fresh tomatoes with a little Italian dressing. Sliced fresh peaches that GI Joe brought back from the English Farm in Zebulon. They are [...]
August 13, 2009
Yogurt Fruit Parfaits
This is the first full week of school. I am so excited. That is just crazy! After 30 years- Did I just type that? – It will be just another day, but NO. 56 high school students are walking through my classroom door every day hoping that it will be a fun class. Most days it will but after all it [...]
August 7, 2009
Hello world!
Welcome to my new blog about teaching and cooking. In future blogs you will find out some interesting things about teaching a nutrition and wellness class to high school students as well as knowledge about food preparation from the ground up. I am not a fancy cook that’s been trained in France. I’m just a [...]
