Culinary Prodigies Day 4

Culinary prodigies made pop-tarts, smoothies, and cakes. Home made pop-tarts were far better than the factory made pop-tarts in the grocery stores. Team Korea, China, and USA had a competition on making the best smoothies. As a result, team Korea's smoothie with mangos, peaches, yogurt, and milk won the smoothie competition. Cakes were made for the purpose of representing each team through decorations. After a short break, prodigies went to Bridge Water Inn to meet Chef Soon Jin Kang and Justin Kang to learn about making oriental food and japanese food. Furthermore, Chefs gave a thoughtful insight on how the restaurant system works. 

Project week cooking group-date 3

The cooking group had a fantastic day yesterday. In the morning, we made meatballs and pasta. Simple as it looked, it was still a hard task to undertake. Team USA was responsible for the sauce; Team Korea was responsible for the meatballs, and Team China was responsible for the pasta. In the afternoon, we had a dessert competition. USA Team, Korea Team, and China Team made apple crisp, sugar candy, and chocolate fudge respectfully. The dessert making process was really fun for us, the first-time cookers. Reviewing the whole day, we had fun, we had great food together, and we had some unforgettable experiences.

Culinary Prodigies Day Two

Today culinary prodigies went shopping in Manchester and Tilton. We visited Saigon Market in Manchester to shop asian ingredients and other unique ingredients for our cook off on Friday. Bokchoi, red pepper paste, and sesame oil are some of the ingredients that we bought. After grocery shopping, we went to Tuscan Market in Salem for our lunch and have opportunity to meet the chef Anthony De Palma who was on the Chef Wanted and won to be the chef of the Tuscan Kitchen. We heard chef's stories about his life studying abroad, learning different foods from other chefs. After hearing his amazing stories we went to Market Basket to grab our final groceries. 

Culinary Prodigy

Today, the cooking group started with a bang! The group started by splitting into teams based on nationality! Team USA started off breakfast with a 1-2 combo of eggs and bacon, while China made bagels and lemonade, and Korea came in strong with chocolate chip & banana pancakes! After the breakfast, teams split for a taste-testing competition! Team USA won comfortably with Korea coming in second place and China finishing third! The group finished by planning recipes and ingredient lists to use for meals and competitions throughout the rest of the week!

Team USA, aka Team Takeover #elite

Team USA taste test

Team USA for the win

Team USA's eggs

Team Korea

Team China

Culinary Prodigies

Essential Question: What kitchen basics do we need to learn to explore different food cultures?

Example: What tools and resources can we find in N.H. to create an authentic Asain meal.