Principles of Healthy Cuisine

Healthy Cuisine.  To some people those words bring images of cardboard food.  Food that has no flavor.  Well I am here to tell you that you can have healthy food and flavor too!
Over the next few days I will be posting photos from our class:  Principles of Healthy Cuisine.  I hope the photos will be able to convey just how good the food was.  Each section of photos will be posted alphabetically.
I hope you enjoy!

 Country Style Shrimp Etouffee:  Rebekah did an outstanding job on this dish.  I enjoyed it enough that I think this will be dinner tonight!

 Pearl pasta with peas and corn.  A nice use of Israeli couscous.

 Potato vegetable hash.  Nice comforting flavors.

 Roasted pepper soup with oven dried corn bread croutons.  Spicy and nice.

Stewed White Bean Soup.  This white bean soup used house smoked turkey necks and onion with some tomato.  The smoked turkey necks and onion replaced any pork products that you might normally use and gave it a really great flavor and aroma.  Very nice!

These photos are the start.  I hope you enjoyed them.  There were so many good dishes it is hard to choose what to post.  Ultimately, I wind up posting the photos that came out best.
Until next time.
Happy Eating
Chef Leslie Bartosh
Faculty Chair, Culinary Arts
Alvin Community College
3110 Mustang Road
Alvin, Texas 77511
281.756.3949
chef@alvincollege.edu

The last photos from International cuisine 2011

Here is the last batch of photos from this years international cuisine class.  We were in Asia for the last three days.  These photos are being posted in alphabetical order rather than by country.


Char Sui aka Chinese BBQ, sweet and delicious


Gui Cuon:  Fresh Spring Rolls

Kakiage:  Mixed Tempura


Khao Pad Pong Kari - Thai Fried Curried Rice

We made Kimchi in four flavors this year.


Our 2nd flavor of Kimchi


Our third flavor of Kimchi

And the fourth version of Kimchi


Mie Goring; Indonesian Fried Pork with Noodles

Nua Pad Prik: Thai Chili Beef

 And last but definitely not least: Suki Yaki

The students did a great job on the food in this class.  I hope that my photos can give you some idea of exactly how tasty the food was.
Thanks for taking a look.
I will start working on photos from Principle of Healthy Cuisine soon.
Until then.
Happy Eating
Chef Leslie Bartosh
Alvin Community College
Faculty Chair, Culinary Arts
3110 Mustang Road
Alvin, Texas 77511
281.756.3949
www.alvincollege.edu/culinaryarts/
chef@alvincollege.edu

more international cuisine photos

As we went through Latin America a couple of dishes stood out.

                                                Sweet corn Fritter.

                                                     Porotos Grandos:  Grand Chilean Bean Stew

More photos to come.
Hope you enjoy.

Until next time.
Happy Eating
Chef Leslie Bartosh
Alvin Community College
Faculty Chair, Culinary Arts
3110 Mustang Road
Alvin, Texas  77511
http://www.alvincollege.edu/culinaryarts
chef@alvincollege.edu
281.756.3949

more photos from International Cuisine - Spain

As our journey through Europe continued we had a brief stop in Spain.  The following photos are some of the highlights of our visit.

Crema Catalana:  traditionally the sugar topping on this dessert is caramelized using a heated iron.

Lecho Frito:  Fried Milk.  The two photos show the Lecho Frito fresh out of the oil and then topped with sugar and cinnamon for service.  This dish is a nice play on textures.

And of course what would a trip to Spain be without Paella Valencia?

And in acknowledgment of the role that pork plays in the cuisine of the Iberian peninsula: Solomillo de Cerdo Ibericao

I hope you enjoyed these few photos of the food of Spain.  There were many more photos taken but these were some of the best.

I should have more photos from International Cuisine and Healthy cuisine posted the near future.
In the meantime:

Happy Eating
Chef Leslie Bartosh
Faculty Chair, Culinary Arts
Alvin Community College
3110 Mustang Road
Alvin, Texas  77511
281.756.3949
Chef@alvincollege.edu

International Cuisine Photos Continued

here are three more from our journey through Europe.

A nice mushroom stuffed Pierogi from Poland.

And as we passed through Scandinavia we had to try the lockdolmar (stuffed onion rolls) and

the Swedish Almond Caramel Cake
They were all great!

Until next time.
Happy Eating
Chef Leslie Bartosh
Alvin Community College
Faculty Chair, culinary arts
3110 Mustang Road
Alvin, Texas 77511
281.756.3949
chef@alvincollege.edu

More photos from 2011 International Cuisine

As promised here are few more photos.  I will have more posted soon.  The file of photos is so large that I feel like I can keep a little better organized if I process and post a few at a time.

Here you go.  As always, I hope you enjoy.

On our last night in France we made Bouillabaisse which turned our quite good.

After France we kind of wandered around Europe for a little bit.

In Austria we had a simply wonderful Apfel Strudelfulle, pictured above.
It followed a delectable meal including Wiener Schnitzel.

While in the Czech Republic we had a simple but quite delicious Bramborova Poleka or Potato Soup

there are more photos to come.  I will try to post a couple of more before my afternoon meeting starts.

Until then:
Happy Eating
Chef Leslie Bartosh
Alvin Community College
Faculty Chair, Culinary Arts
3110 Mustang Road
Alvin, Texas  77511
281.756.3949

Photos

Well, at long last i am starting to process photos from International Cuisine.  In the next few weeks, I hope to finish posting photos from International Cuisine and Principles of Healthy Cuisine.  We sure had some good food.  I hope the photos will do it justice.
To get things started here are the first 3 photos from International Cuisine.  I hope you enjoy.

              Coq au Vin, one of my favorite dishes from the class

                                                                  Pate de Campagne
This particular recipe had a little more liver in it than the class liked.

                                                                      Soupe au Pistou

If you haven't guessed yet these are some of the photos from when we were in France.

There are more to come.
Hope you enjoy.

Until next time.
Happy Eating
Chef Leslie Bartosh, CEC, FMP
Alvin Community College
Faculty Chair, Culinary Arts
3110 Mustang Road
Alvin, Texas  77511
281.756.3949
chef@alvincollege.edu