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178 Days to go!

Should I already be counting down?! We have big plans this year. One of which is raising money to take a trip to France this year. We want to experience great food and culture and where better to do that than in another country?! We will try our hardest and if for some reason, we do not make it we will default to New Orleans (we'll still be able to speak French!). This year I have high expectations from my students. They have all taken my classes before so they know me and know how to work with me. I think it will be a great year because of all of the dynamic personalities and unique cross section of students that I have. This is why I love teaching this class, you get students from all over campus! I'm really looking forward to the year and will try my hardest to keep this blog updated as much as I require my students to update theirs!! We'll see how that goes...wish me luck!

179 to go

A new year!! I have 11 very cool kids in CAIII this year (just like every year!) and we are already off to a great start. I am committed this year to taking them as far as they want and need. I want to win the competition this year and get some scolarship money flowing to Fortuna! That is definitely one of my goals... The Club has decided that they would like to pursue the option of traveling to France this year for our class trip. It will be a giant commitment and a lot of money but if they work hard enough, I bet we can make it! I guess I should start planning now!

36 to go

Moving right along...
We have done 2 lunches so far.
For lunch or dinner this week, we are offering the following:
Roasted Chicken or roasted vegetable fettucine alfredo. Both of these will be served with a homemade roll and apple upside down cake.
We are doing okay in numbers but would really like to get out there a bit more so call us! We are worth it and only $6, how could you go wrong?

Four Weeks In

Funny that I had all of my students set up their blogs and even do a few entries and here I am with nothing entered since last year.
I will try and be better about keeping up to date.
This week we are starting our staff lunches again. We are trying to branch out and serve other interested people as well. We have managed to gain Ambrosini school's faith and they are a big part of our Friday business. Now we are ready to find more people interested as well.
If you are in Fortuna on Friday's give us a call, we would be happy to add you to our list. I will start putting our weekly menu on this blog so that you can always check back to see what we will be offering.
This week we will be making a Thai soup called Tom Kha Gai which is made with coconut milk and chicken but what really sets it apart is the galangal root and kaffir lime leaves that the soup calls for. It is so good. We are also offering a vegetarian version with tofu instead of chicken.
Along with the soup, you will get a vegetable spring roll, a bottle of water and a coconut lime whoopie pie. The whoopie pie isn't exactly Thai but the flavors are. Every week for our desserts we take something familiar and try and give it a twist so that it can fit with our lunches. This week it is the whoopie pie's turn! Last year we did A LOT of cupcakes and have decided to take a break from those and work on a few different current trends. I think we will be focusing on individual pies and tarts, verrines, whoopie pies, and ice creams to name a few.
I should mention that our lunches can also always be purchased as a dinner and any of our desserts can be purchased separately as well so if any part of our lunches sound good, let us know!
With the money that we earn on Friday's and on other fund raisers throughout the year we will partially be paying for our trip to Chicago. This year we are going to try very hard to make it to the National Restaurant Association Food Show. It will be really great because we will get to see a whole different side to the food industry. There will be so many people there talking about what's new in the industry as well as celebrity chefs, mini classes, etc. Also while in Chicago, we will try and visit favorite local restaurants and bakeries, meet with industry professionals, tour some hotels and so on. Wish us luck!!

Don't forget to keep checking back to see what's happening in our class.

Annual Cheese Tasting

Today was the day that apparently we have all been waiting for. Who knew that I would be surrounded by a group of high school girls that love cheese as much as I do?! That is a match made in heaven. So now, we have definitely added Murray's Cheese shop to the list of places to visit on our trip to New York. This is a place that I have been wanting to go but never really had the buy in from the students...until now! So that is good news.

International Street Food Time

Now that we have the holidays and huge fundraisers that come along with them behind us we can get on with some student projects!
This is one of my favorite projects of the year. There is history, technology, and cooking all wrapped up into one.
I have attached the assignment, check it out and if you are Kelsie you should definitely check it out because you were absent yesterday!!

http://www.scribd.com/doc/46270332/International-Food-History-and-Food-Customs?secret_password=kp6m742fc2jt4myfbmw

It's Pie Time

If anyone is interested, please check out our pie sale. The deadline for orders is Monday the 15th. They can be picked up on Friday the 19th in my classroom or delivered (depending on the distance) on Friday evening or Saturday morning on 11/20. At the bottom of this post you can find a link to the order form. It is my first time using googledocs though so it comes up looking pretty different. All of the information is there however so I am not going to mess with it!
Thanks.

https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B_x6AKGfoR2DMDI5NGYzNjItZDM2My00NDA1LWFjZGEtYjQ5ZjM0NTVlNDQ4&hl=en&authkey=CKKf-JwK

This is going to be one busy week...

Not a good week to miss school!
As of today, we have about 120 cupcakes ordered, all of which need to have some fabulous Halloween decoration on them. This will be fun though. We have the cupcakes and icings down, it's the decorations that we get to be creative with. McKenna will be making her fondant from scratch which tastes much better than the store bought stuff and then Taylor and Sammy will be making little figures for the tops of all of the cupcakes. We'll have some monsters, some pumpkins, ghosts and so on. I can't wait to see the finished products!
CAIII also has a catering on Wednesday afternoon. This will be our first official off site catering job. Those are always a blast.
We are taking this Friday off from staff lunches due to all of the cupcakes that we are making.
Again, let us know if you are interested! They will be great and are just $1.25 per cupcake. Not bad for a tasty little work of art.
We will be sure to post a lot of pictures on our various blogs so check them out!

Mrs. Chatfield's top 5 favorite questions

1. Do you have any food I can eat?
2. Are we doing anything important today?
3. Do I have to write this down?
4. What are we cookin' today?
5. Can I make some bacon and eggs real quick?

Baby Chatfield is out sick!!

Hey there!
I am at home with the little guy.
Monday we are just continuing with perfecting our doughs! It's monkey bread and Naan this week. Wish I was there to try the monkey bread...I'm a big fan.
This week's lunch and dinner is going to be Chicken Tikka Masala OR Chickpea and Potato Masala with Basmati rice, home made garlic naan and chai cupcakes. Let us know if you are interested!

Finshed Product from Friday's staff lunch...

The lunch (which I failed to take a picture of) was great. The cous cous was so good and the chicken and sauce both had so much flavor! Then to top it off with this great dessert...it was a good Friday. We had teachers coming in to class asking to buy any extra cupcakes but we were all out! So funny.

This week they want us to sell paw print cupcakes school wide for Friday. Hoepfully we will sell a ton!

Here are some pictures of them working on the honey bee cupcakes! Such a good job.

Thursday Staff Lunch Prep

Today was a productive day of lunch prep.
If you missed it you missed out!
We are still concentrating on and very committed to making the greatest cupcakes known to everyone. I think that today we had a winner.
Walnut Cupcake with Honey Buttercream and a Baklava 'Disc' and honey bee to top them off.
Oh and lunch is going to be great this week too.

Now lets have a smooth, efficient, and CLEAN Friday!
Good work ladies!

I will post pictures on Friday of all of the different components of the lunch so everyone can see what they are missing out on!

Culinary Arts III, 2010-2011

Such a serious bunch of ladies.

Well...maybe not...

Welcome to our blog!

Hey everyone! Keep checking in to see what we are doing on a daily basis. On this blog, you will find links to class assignments, pictures of food that we are making in class and updates on our progress towards the BIG NYC trip in May.

For starters, if anyone you know is interested in purchasing lunches from us on Fridays, let me know!
This week we are offering Chicken or Tofu Skewers with a Chermoula Sauce and Vegetable Cous Cous. Also, for dessert, a Honey Walnut Cupcake, yum.

Thanks for checking in!