Matt Giorno

5/29/12

Culinary

Blog: May

                                                                       

     I honestly didn’t know what was going to happen when I walked into culinary for the first time this year. I figured it was going to be a good class which it wasn’t because it was great, it was great because I learned many new things like the technique of using a knife and using different methods of dicing and the way to hold a knife. We made different kinds of foods like soup, bread, dessert kind of food and all different kinds of foods that I to be honest barely remember making. The reason I took this class is because I like food and I wanted to learn how to make different kinds of foods, making food is not a future ambition but just way for me to know how to make food along the way so it’s worth it. I am really glad I took culinary because I really enjoyed it and do not regret taking it at all and I found it helpful to learn to make different kinds of foods. I enjoyed going to class everyday because of the food we made and how good the food can taste. I’m glad I took culinary.

Class 3

Ms. Hoagland

            This previous weekend, my family and I took an RV trip up to Maine. It was a very interesting experience for many reasons. I learned a lot on the trip, including all things about lobster. We went on a lobstering boat and learned everything that there is to know about lobsters. I learned that Maine produces 80% of the U.S.’s lobster, and that lobster was served to prisoners as a meal 5 times a week. It was known as the “poor man’s food”. Later on the people realized it was actually not for poor people and they started hiking the prices up because it was a food for “the wealthy”. An unusual fact was that fishermen sell lobsters for about 3 or 4 dollars for a pound of lobster, the stores and restaurants jack the prices up for profit. 

            My experience with lobster was a funny one. While we were at the camp, there was free food at the lobby area. So I go up and I am like cool free food, so I fill up my plate with pineapple, cantaloupe, potato salad, chips and what I thought was a chicken sandwich. It looked like chicken and had a sauce that made the texture the same. So I take a bite and I say wow, this is amazing chicken. I finish the sandwich and go to sleep. The next day as we were walking down the pier, my family was talking about the meal we had the previous day. Then we pass by one of the many lobster restaurants and my dad tells me that what I ate in the sandwich was lobster. I don’t usually eat seafood because it disgusts me, but I was fine with the fact that I had lobster because first, I already ate it, and second it tasted like chicken. It was a confusing way to try lobster for the first time, but I would definitely try it again!

-cam m 

 Steak is one of my favorite meats to eat. Steak is a meat that I eat about 3 days a week for dinner. My family and I love it so much. It tastes amazing. Most steak is cooked on the grille, in the oven, or cooked on the stove with a pan. It tastes the best when it’s cooked on the grille in my opinion. It gets the most tenderness and it gets very juicy when it’s cooked on the grille, which I like. Steak also tastes great when it is marinated before you actually cook it. It gets all these spices inside the actual steak. It should be marinated in a bag for at least 2-4 hours so all the spices you added gets in the steak. The most tenderness pieces of meat come from the loin or rib of the animal you are getting your meat from. Steak can be cooked to a level of very rare, rare, medium rare, medium, medium well done, or well done. I like my steak medium well done because it’s the juiciest like that. If you really wanted to go get a nice steak you should go to New York City. There is a lot of good food there, especially steak. Steaks that you buy at restaurants tend to be extremely expensive. A steak in a restaurant is about 3 times the amount it would be if you were to buy that steak at a super market and take it home and cook yourself. That’s how restaurants make their money. It is nice to go out and get served food yourself and paying that cost instead of bringing the steak home and cooking it by yourself. Once in a while it’s nice but that price adds up. 
Tristan P.

          Almost a year ago, I decided that I’m going to be a vegetarian. Well actually, I didn’t just decide. There is a story behind it, but that’s really beside the point. Anyways, ever since then, my diet has obviously dramatically changed. At the beginning, I tried doing that whole eating like a stereotypical vegetarian; tofu, tons of beans, weird organic food, making my own veggie burgers and the such. But after a couple months, that became too much of a hassle. Now I find myself eating way too much pasta and eggs, separately of course.

           Choosing to not eat meat also give me quite the hassle. I’m the type of person who likes to eat a real meal instead of snacking on things. I like a good hearty meal that will hold me down. Finding something like that to eat when going out is really difficult. You would think that there would be more options for people like me. Like come on people, we’re in America here! There are plenty of people with ‘uncommon’ diets. There should be more a variety! With the numbered choices, I have found that I have opened my mind to many new foods. A year and a half ago, you would not have caught me dead eating a veggie burger, or tofu. But here I am not, telling people that give me she’s insane looks, that it really isn’t all that bad!

Gabby K.