TeachingCulinary101

In this short just for fun unit, I teach the students to make two of my all-time favorite breakfast pastries french toast and crepes. I also use this time to teach the students to make whipped topping. Here are the recipes that I use: French Toast Recipe Crepes Recipe Whipped Topping This years group is going to make a crepe cake.  Let your students have fun with this unit.  Have them bring in different fillings and toppings. (This will save you a few bucks) This unit is just for fun so give a quick 5 min introduction to the lab and give your students your expectations about presentation of their product.   They will really enjoy it. :)

The Sandwich Unit in my class covers two day and that includes an in class lab. Lecture and Lab Planning Day + Lab Day= 2 Day duration Here are a few of the links that I used to COPY information since I do not have a text book.  I basically took information from both PPT and add some of my own picture that I found on Google Images. Both are awesome PPT, I just felt that I need to reorder the information to make it more student friendly. Original PPT Sandwich PPT (Not Mine) Sandwich PPT 2 (Note Mine) Here is also a link to my edited version of these two PPTs. My Sandwich PPT I also created a NoteTaker. Sandwich NoteTaker *Lab activity is attached to the Notetaker After the lab the students  will have a quick quiz and that Sandwiches:)

Day 1 This week in my Hot Foods Class we will be make all different varieties of the incredible versatile EGG. Every year, I will have a student who thinks they can out scramble me when it comes to making scramble eggs. So on the first day of the Egg Unit, I challenge one of my students to a EGG OFF. Almost always, the student will not season the eggs, cook them on high,  will add a TON of cheese to add "flavor", and then insist on scrambling the eggs until they are dead. I use this time to show the students how to correctly scramble an egg and add a little competition to the class. But every once in a while, I will have a student who kicks my butt and makes some awesome eggs. Which I make a BIG DEAL OUT OF, BECAUSE THIS HAS ONLY HAPPENED TWICE IN MY 10 YEARS AS A CULINARY TEACHER. After the EGG OFF  we go back into the classroom and discuss eggs, what they are composed of, who and how they are graded, nutritional values, and different ways that you can prepare