Tuesday, January 29, 2013

independant component update 3

Day 3

Puzole soup
 (Mexican pork and hominy stew)
Materials:
1-6 quarts pot
1- laddel
Cutting board
Knife
Colander large mixing bowl
Medium mixing bowl
1 - 1 cup measuring cup
1 - 4 cup measuring cup

Ingredients
Soup
·                           Pork shoulder or roast -- 1 1/2 to 2 pounds
·                           Canned or fresh hominy, rinsed -- 2 to 3 cups
·                           Garlic -- 3 to 5 cloves
·                           Ground cumin -- 2 teaspoons
·                           Salt -- 2 teaspoons
·                           Water or stock -- 6 cups
Garnishes
·                           Cabbage or iceberg lettuce, shredded
·                           Onion, finely diced
·                           Radishes, thinly sliced
·                           Limes, cut into wedges
·                           Avocado, diced
·                           Cilantro, chopped
·                           Oregano, dried
·                           Chile piquín, ground
Method
3:00 P.M. - so we start by cleaning the cluttered sink and work space.
3:15 P.M. – I bring out all the materials (and materials list)
3:30 P.M. – I clean the materials.
3:45 P.M. – I pull out the vegetables, and wash them.
4:00 P.M. – I then find that mom has already put the meat in the pot (to thaw) so I can just add the water and start the heat (but I don’t for the moment).
4:15 P.M. – I separate and measure the ingredients.
4:30 P.M. – I mix the spices garlic and salt with the water.
4:45 P.M. – now because the recipe asks I add the water to the meat and hominy and boil for three hours.
7:30 P.M. I decide to chop up the vegetables according to the recipe.
7:45-ish P.M. – I check to see if the hominy is cooked (should look like a flower or like popcorn…)
8:15 P.M. I present the food and so this is how it came out.
9:00 P.M. I clean, sanitize and put away after everyone has eaten.
Prep time: 1 1/2hrs.
cooking time: 4 1/2 hrs
serve time: 1hr
total time :7 hrs
current ICH: 16hrs 15 minutes



 

Independant component update 2


Day 2 
Cocido day
To day mom let me make Cocido It’s like albondigas but alittle different I use afew difrent ingredients and prep the meat differently being that as it is I pretty much do the same thing I start at 3:--pm and end at 7:--pm again so to get the ball rolling I have to start with the basics I check off that I have these and clean each and every one which is about an hour process.
Materials:
1-6 quart pot
1-Laddel
Cutting board
Knife
Colander
Large mixing bowl
Medium size bowl
1-1 cup measuring cup
1-4 cup measuring cup
Ingredients:
2 quarts water
3 pounds beef shank, cut
½ white onion, cut in wedges
3 garlic cloves, peeled
2 large carrots, peeled and cut into chunks
2 large ears of corn, husked and cut across the cob into 1 ½ inch pieces
2 medium red skin potatoes, scrubbed and quartered
1 stalk celery, cut into 1 inch
1/3 head green cabbage, sliced
2 zucchini cut into 1 inch pieces
1/3 cup fresh cilantro leaves
Salt added to taste
3:00 P.M. - start – I started off by cleaning the preparation area (like yesterday kitchen counter, sink, cutting board, and stove)
3:15 P.M. – then I prepare by bringing out the materials (materials list as well)
3:30 P.M. – then I prepare by bringing out the ingredients (and the ingredients list)
3:45 P.M. – I prepared the vegetables by washing them and scrubbing the potatoes.
4:00 P.M. – I measured out the spices and separated them (for now)
4:15 P.M. – I cut up the vegetables according to the recipe and placed them in a large bowl.
4:30 P.M. – I filled up the pot with the water and added the meat and brought it to a rolling boil.
4:45 P.M. - When it started to boil I took the stuff that appeared on top of the water off, lowered the temperature, then added the onion and the garlic. And let it simmer for two hours.
6:45 P.M. – the recipe asked for the vegetables and the zucchini to be separate then the vegetables to be added and wait for yet another twenty- minuets
7:05 P.M. I add the zucchini and baby sit the pot until the zucchini was cooked 
7:15 P.M. Then before I took the pot off the fire I added the cilantro.
7:30 P.M. the cocido is ready to serve.
8:00 P.M. The work area is cleaned and all the materials are disinfected again and the serving area is cleared
Prep time:1hr
cooking time:3hrs
serveing time:1hr


total time:5hrs
current ICH:9hrs 15min

Independant component update

Day1:

Albondigas soup

 Today I was making albondigas soup, I started at 3:--pm and ended at 7:--pm
Materials:




1-6 quart pot
1-Laddel
Cutting board
Knife
Colander
Large mixing bowl
Medium size bowl
1-1 cup measuring cup
1-4 cup measuring cup

Ingredients:

1 pound of beef (half ground beef and half ground pork loin)
1/4 onion finely chopped
1 garlic clove finely chopped
1 beaten egg
3 tablespoons of ground bread
1 teaspoon of cumin
1 teaspoon oregano
Salt added according to taste.
1/2 diced stock of celery
1 diced carrot
2 large potatoes
2 ears of corn
2 Mexican squash
3 tablespoons of fresh cilantro leaves
2 cups of water
3 slices of onion
1 pinch of cumin
salt and pepper added to taste.

Condiments:
Fresh cilantro
Chopped onion
2 Lemons



3:00 P.M. – Start time- Prepare working space.  I cleaned and disinfected the work area I was to use. The kitchen counters space, sink, stove, and cutting board.
3:15 P.M. – I prepare by binging out the materials (Materials list included)
3:30 P.M. – I brought out ingredients (Ingredients list included)
3:45 P.M. - I washed the vegetables and scrubbed the potatoes.
4:00 P.M. – I measured out ingredients.
4:15 P.M. - using cutting board and the knife I cut the vegetables into the sizes the recipe required and placed them in the large bowl.
4:30 P.M. – I fill the 6 quart pot with three quarts of water, added salt to the water to start a rolling boil.
4:45 P.M. – I begin preparing the meat by placing it in a medium size bowl, and adding the seasonings to the meat. I mixed in the bread crumbs, salt, pepper, eggs, cumin, and oregano.
5:00 P.M. – After mixing the meat, I begin to shape the meat in to spherical shapes, roughly the size of a ping pong ball.
5:15 P.M. – I got the medium bowl and placed the meatballs carefully in the pot and waited for it to grow to a rolling boil again.
5:30 P.M. –once the water reached the rolling boil again, I took the large bowl of vegetables and carefully placed them in to the boiling water.
6:00 P.M. – after boiling for approximately half an hour the soup was finished and let it sit for fifteen minuets. 
6:15 P.M. – Now it was ready to serve and I let it cool and put it up for display this is what it looked like.
7:15 P.M. – Clean up and disinfect preparation area and serving table.

I let the soup cool for about 15 min. before serving.  The condiments I used were the fresh cilantro, chopped onion, and wedged lemon.

Prep time:1hr.
Cooking time:2hr
Serving time:1hr 15min
Total time :4hr 15
Current ICH(Independent component hours):4hr 15min

Thursday, January 24, 2013

seinor project update

1.) I am cooking food with my mother and grandma who teach me how to cook from their ways which were taught to them by their grandparents.

2.)I have read a blurb from an interveiw off the internet from a book called taco planet that said that the big companies really just assemble their products and prepare most their ingredients by either microwave or mixing with hot water.

3.) I have so far prepared a pot of Aboindigas soup (the pictures shows a bowl I sereved and meatballs that went into the dish ).




combining the meatball mix












adding the meatballs


final product


Sunday, January 13, 2013

blog12 third interveiw questions

My project is on healthy mexican dishes and authenticity.
1.)When you think of mexican food over in mexico what comes to mind?
2.)what is healthy mexican food to you?
3.)how would it be made ?
4.)in your words why does mexican food use meat?
5.)what would I find in mexican food ?
6.)why or why wouldn't I be able to take meat out of mexican food ?
7.)what herbs are used in mexican dishes?
8.)heard that in mexico people use the food as medicine how would that work?
9.)Are there any ingredients that are used just in mexico that might be alittle rare to find here or is every thing about the same?
10.)what is most important when creating a healthy mexican dish and maintaining it's authenticity?

blog 11 mentorship 10 hours check

1.) been doing mentor ship at pomona village ROP program B.E.S.T. cafe and with mr. martinez's resturant management and hosptality class.

2.)Mr. H at the pomona resturant management and hospitality.

3.) I have done around 90 hours combined with both mr. H and Mr. Martinez.

4.) In the beginning of the time spent with the ROP class it was a real blast because of the hands on stuff we all (kids in the sixth period) at the program were able to do we endedup being able to see how things were done. of course though haveing the last period I did have to work with the other kids to clean up the projects the period before us had made. then there was the book work we had to do as well to make sure we were learning things. Then somewhere around the middle of the work time the bosses of the ROP teachers said they diddn't want us to eat some of the stuff being made any more. then they were alittle uncomfortable about some other stuff and we as a sixth period class weren't able to make food any more. We did work in the kitchen (cleaning,taking count of ingredients, and putting away) but it was supposed to only be workplace for the bell resturant which doesn't run (very often) during sixth period. Thus the rest of the time was very boring and became mostly  comprised of book work.

5.) My house teacher should have Mr. H's contact information, Mr. Martinez moved as of the end of the now finished semester there, Mr. H has told me that he can accsess my time with Mr. Martinez and confirm the hours spent with him.