Labs

Knife Skills

This lab consists of three recipes intended to improve knife skills; fries, salsa, and bruschetta. I performed well for all of these recipes, and they helped... sharpen my skills.

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Pizzas & Panzarottis

In this lab, I learned how to make pizza dough, I practiced the technique of stretching the dough, and I made both one pizza and one panzarotti with the dough. This lab also originally included calzones, but I never made one. The dough is the same.

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Deboning Chicken and Chicken Stock

In this lab, I learned all the steps of deboning a chicken, and I also learned about how to make chicken stock from a chicken carcass.

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Soups

In this lab, I made two delicious soups; potato and corn chowder, and cream of broccoli and cheddar soup.

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Chicken Parmigiana with Spaghetti Alio i Olio

In this lab, I made a dish of Chicken Parmigiana with Spaghetti Alio i Olio. The purpose was to learn how to handle, season, bread, and cook chicken breasts, as well as create a basic sauce and cook pasta.

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Jerk Chicken & Rice and Peas

In this lab, I learned how to cook jerk chicken, and I also used a recipe for rice and peas to go along with it in the dish.

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Cookies

In this lab, I made four different kinds of cookies. They were chocolate chip, double chocolate, lemon, and shortbread.

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Breads

This lab consists of three bread recipes; one for dinner rolls, one for pan bread, and one for challah bread.

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Cakes

In this lab, I learned how to bake a cake, and I also learned how to make icing and ice the cake professionally.

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Chicken Pot Pie

In this lab, I learned the complex process of making a good pie crust, and how to cook the chicken pot pie filling.

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