Thats all folks!

Well that was my year in foods 1. well it was only a semester, but it seemed kinda long. Next semester (in the fall) i will be taking foods 2, so i will probably start a new page. the class was fun, making food was enjoyable, as well as eating it was. good luck to all those who take this class! thanks to Mrs. Holtgrewe for humoring me with this blog!
much love, anna.

Final meal

Menu: orange slices scrambled eggs pancakes milk The eggs were made with cheddar cheese. The oranges were cut into fourths. Here is the recipe for the pancakes:

Ingredients:

• 2 C milk
• 1 1/2 C rolled oats
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 C oil (may substitute in 1/2 C vanilla yogurt or use 1/4 C oil + 1/4 C vanilla yogurt)
• 3/4 C flour
• 2 Tbsp sugar
• 2 1/2 tsp bkg powder
• 1 tsp salt

Pour milk over oats. Let stand 2 minutes. Beat in eggs, oil & remaining ingredients. Mixture will be thin.

The meal turned out amazingly. It tasted good. It looked good. Everyone left the table full. The whole meal took about an hour to make, only because the pancakes took a long time on the griddle. Besides that, it was a pretty simple meal to make. Also shopping was easy, because we had most of the ingredients at home.

Veggie Stir Fry with Rice

The stir fry was pretty easy. Once the veggies were cut up, all you had to do was saute them, and bam! they were ready to be eaten. It was a nice meal for the family. We ate it on rice with chicken and orange slices, a hodge-podge but tasty meal!

Baked Potato

This potato was made in the microwave. It was easy enough to make, well it seemed that way, but it turned out terribly so I may have done something wrong. The top half of the potato turned out fine....but the bottom half was rock solid. My sister braved eating it, but could not finish the bottom half. I guess this is a lesson learned. Maybe in the future I should stick with making baked potatoes in the oven.

Cinnamon Rolls

I made the cinnamon rolls while still in the grains unit, I just never put it online. The cinnamon rolls made me practice my patience. There was a lot of waiting involved. After all the hard work though, the family loved the rolls, they were delicious and were gone before I could blink twice. My brother said they were 'ah-maze-ing.'

Blueberry Muffins

The blueberry muffins were good, pretty easy to make too. There wasn't any thing complicated about making them. It was another dump, mix, pour, bake, eat recipe!

Spaghetti

The obstacle with the Spaghetti was multitasking. You had to get the noodles going, and start the sauce and get the bread buttered and in the oven all at the same time. I will admit I had a bit of help from my mom, just stirring the noodles and small things like that, but it was a huge help! After all the work, I will say it was worth it! The Spag tasted AMAZING!

Birthday Cake

Now, the original assignment for this cake is not a birthday cake, just decorate a cake...but it was my moms birthday about the same time as it was assigned to make the cake. So by default this cake was turned into a birthday cake! The actual cake is just a cake from a box, not too hard, although it did turn out quite tasty. The frosting was the challenge. Specifically covering the cake with white frosting, that was quite frustrating. but it ended up looking good!

Apple Pie

The apple pie was a ton of work. I am not sure that I would make it again. The crust was the hard part. I did have fun making the latice top, though. And I think it turned out pretty well, even if I do say so myself. I did not eat any, my dad took it up to Michigan for my grandpa's birthday (he was already headed there). They said that they liked it, so I think it turned out pretty well!

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

The oatmeal cookies were delicious! They were also easy enough to make, you just dump it all into a bowl, drop them onto a sheet, pop them in the oven and eat! There isn't much to say about them except YUM!

Tuna Salad

Finally, for the fish portion of the meat unit, there were several options, I went with the one which I already had all the ingredients needed. So tuna salad it was. The recipe was simple, and called for things I didn't expect, such as relish and carrot sticks. My sister and I were a little hesitant to try it but we did and were pleasantly surprised. The recipe was just like any normal tuna recipe, I had to drain the tuna then mix in the other stuff -- relish, carrots, mayo, etc. and then we decided to put it on toast in stead of crackers, to make it more like a sandwich. The recipe also called for a hard-boiled egg, which I layed on top.

Chicken Fajitas

For the poultry part of this unit I made Chicken Fajitas. They were pretty basic, and my family devoured them. It was an unusual mix of spices (including cumin, thyme and oregano) but turned out extremely delicious. The meal was one I would seguest to anyone who didn't have a lot of time on their hands to bake and wanted something tastey and filling. I didn't have any problems making them after I got home from track practice.

shish kabobs

For the meat unit we had to make three dishes, one for each kind of meat which are red meat, poultry, and fish. The first meal was red meat, our dish was shish kabobs. I made them with stew meat which I marinated for 24 hours with italian dressing. After that I had to thread the meat along with zuchini, green bell pepper, tomatoes and potatoes onto skewers. This was the longest part, it almost took me an hour. Then I broiled the kabobs in the oven, marinating them with the indicated sauce. The work was worth the end product though, they were thoroughly enjoyed by my family. The process was pretty simple just time consuming, they are also very pretty!

Mac 'n' Cheese

The mac 'n' cheese was a bit of a challenge simply because there were a few things that the directions ask you to do at the same time, making me feel a bit frazzled. I had to watch the noodles and make the sauce at the same time. The noodles were pretty easy because I have done that before. The sauce required some patience, but in the end it turned out really well. The cheese melted surprisingly fast once the sauce was ready for it to be added. I baked the mac 'n' cheese with bread crumbs on top. It was a bit hit, but there were too many noodles for the sauce, so it tasted a little lacking in the cheese department. there was deffinatly more mac than cheese. If I could make it again, I might have doubled the cheese part of the recipe. But everyone loved it anyways. It was part of our dinner tonight. It was partnered with salad and baked pork. yum yum.

Omelet

It is the next unit in foods class, eggs and dairy. It is a bit ironic that these two foods are grouped together because for the longest time I thought eggs were dairy. I dont any more, so do not worry.
The omelet was a bit of a no-brainer. It took about 5 minutes total. I just mixed up the eggs with milk then put them in the pan. Once the egg had cooked most of the way, I added cheese down the middle -- it was an Italian mix, that is what the package said. then I folded it into thirds and my sister and I ate it, and it was not half bad. I don't have much to say about the omelet because it was so easy to make. :)

Salad with homemade croutons

The salad I made contained the usual lettuce, cucumber, carrots and green pepper; as well as celery, mushrooms, broccoli, parsley and onion. Cutting them in various fashions was easy for the most part except Julienne-ing turned out to be some what of a difficult task, since the carrots were wet. The green pepper turned out cool-looking, in round-ish shapes. to top the salad off, I sprinkled mozzarella cheese and homemade croutons on top. The croutons were delicious and easy to make. My sister loved them so much I think we will have croutons once a week for a while now. Overall, the salad was a success.

Brownies

These brownies contain unsweetened chocolate as a main ingredent. I melted the chocolate with crisco, the mixed it in with sugar, eggs and vanilla. After that was thoroghly mixed, I then added flour, which thickened up the batter tremendously (along with salt and baking powder). The recipe was pretty easy, and self explanitory. The brownies look delish. Mrs. Holtgrewe, if I am missing any info you would like to see, let me know.