garde manger class 2011 continued

This was a platter from class.

Another platter from class.  This one for four people.

Another platter from class.

A platter from the end of year buffet.

Sarah, Maria, Rebekah and Rachel posing with a platter from class.

 Adrian and Steven with Steven doing the big thumb routine.  End of year buffet night.

The crew.   Rebekah is hiding behind the ice carving.

Well there you go.  I hope you have enjoyed the journey through this years classes.
I think it was fun for both the students and the faculty.

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

garde manger class 2011 continued

 

A fierce pineapple catfish under construction.

A platter of finger sandwiches.

One of the platters from class time:  beef kabobs, shrimp cocktail, chicken wings and fruit kabobs.

Another platter with similar components.

Another variation on the theme.

One of the platters from the end of the year buffet.

Garde manger class

The school year is over.  As usual our school year ended with Garde Manger.  The students did a great job in class.  The ice carvings came out great!  Chef Bland did a great job with the class.
The following pictures, from the class, are in alphabetical order.

Here is a shot of Adrian concentrating on his cuts.  Adrian developed some of the best knife skills of the whole class!

A dynamic trio if I ever saw one:  Alicia, Allen and Yvonne with one of their platters.

This angel fish ice carving was done by the team of:  Maria, Rebekah, and Rachel.  It was judged to be the best of the class by an outside judge.  You can see it displayed as a part of the class end of year buffet in the following photo.

An open face bacon and lettuce sandwich.

Roast beef and cucumber canape.

Buffet platter with chicken wings and stuffed mushrooms.

 Crudite with dip.

Fruit platter with fruit kabobs

More to follow

The rest of principals of healthy cuisine bon appetit

here is the 2nd installment today.  This should finish Principals of Healthy Cuisine.  There photos are posted in no particular order.  I hope you enjoy!

 As a part of the class we do a pizza night.  The cheese pizza, pictured above, is gluten free and vegan.

We also made a really delicious gluten free fried chicken.

Of course what is life with out dessert?  One of the desserts we made in this class is this fruit strudel with red wine sauce.

We know that Popeye was strong because of spinach; this spinach dish featuring lemon, garlic and mushrooms.

This salmon dish was quite nice.  It was pan smoked for a couple of minutes for flavor and then finished in the oven.  Yum!

Well this the end of the photos from Principals of Healthy Cuisine.  I hope you enjoyed them.  The class did a really good job of dispelling the myth that healthy food tastes like cardboard!

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

More of Healthy Cuisine

I know these photos are coming up in spurts and dribbles.  Life has been busy.  With the end of school rapidly approaching I should be able to get the rest of the photos from  Principals of Healthy Cuisine and Garde Manger posted in the next week or so.
As a part of Healthy Cuisine we made one dish that was a fusion dish if you will.  We made chapati bread with no added fat.  We griddled falafel in stick shape instead of deep frying it.  And we made a jicama lime cilantro slaw.  We combined the three of these in a wrap.  I don;t have a picture of the wrap but do have pictures of the three components.  The combination works quite well.

Our fat free chapati or roti

Our griddled falafel

and last but not least our jicama cilantro lime slaw

This was really a pleasing combination of flavors and textures.

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