Monday& Wednesday

Monday:

Everything ran smoothly on Monday with the exception of a few missing ingredients. All of those things were able to be substituted for something else though.

The soy sauce that the baked teriyaki chicken called for was replaced with pre-made teriyaki sauce. Since I had already added the sugar to the recipe prior to finding out that there was no soy sauce the glaze probably ended up with a lot of added sugar (because of the sugar in the pre-made sauce and the cup of white sugar the original recipe called for). That was probably the only thing that didn’t go well because it altered the nutritional content of the food.

I learned how to properly check the temperature of meat that is cooked in the oven. I had an idea of how to do this before; however, I have never actually had to do it.

In order to improve for next class I could practice correctly taking the temperature of foods I cook at home.

Wednesday:

I thought that everything ran pretty smoothly again today. The recipes weren’t too difficult and we were able to complete them a little early.

I don’t think that we worked as quickly as we could have today; but we started to work at a faster pace toward the end of class.

I learned how to make fake chicken stock today. It was a good substitute to real pre-made or packaged chicken stock and it probably tasted just fine in the soup.

For next class I would like to concentrate on working faster since we will have more responsibilities next week.