February 5, 2012

Day 4: Culinary Adventure & Advanced Skills

Thursday’s camp may have been the best of the entire summer…at least from the kid’s point of view!  The morning group took a (theoretical) trip south of the border and whipped up quesadillas, fruit salsa, tomato salsa, and, of course, churros!  They ate them up!

The afternoon group spent their time making sushi, and tons of it! From rinsing the rice to learning how to roll the perfect roll, they did an amazing job.  They also pulled together tempura green beans & sweet potatoes, and just for fun, homemade marshmallows.  It was a great, great day!

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Day 3: Culinary Adventure & Advanced Skills

I can’t believe that we’re more than halfway done with our cooking camps this week!  What a great group of kids.  It feels like there are a million pictures, so enjoy!

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Advanced Skills: Egg Day

Today, it was all about the eggs. Hollandaise, Eggs Benedict, Chocolate Souffle, and, ok, a little Potato Leek soup thrown in for good measure.  (I’m having a few technical difficulties – I’m a better cook than computer gal – sorry! – and plan to have the pics from the morning crew up by lunch on Wednesday. Thanks for your patience!)

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Bake-A-Rama Final Day: Fondant

Holy fondant Batman..these kids did an amazing job not only baking cakes from scratch and frosting them, but covering them with fondant (and edible sugar clay-like substance) too!  Here are pics from the morning session on the last day of our Bake-A-Rama camp (stay tuned tomorrow for the afternoon class pics):

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Day One: Advanced Skills

We started the teens easy today, before we build as the week goes on and they really get to test their kitchen mettle.  On the menu today: egg pasta sheets, marinara, and chocolate-peanut butter whoopie pies (oh my goodness – were they delicious!).  Here are some pics from our day (stay tuned tomorrow for the morning group):

Making pasta sheets

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Puff Pastry Craziness! (Bake-A-Rama Day 4)

Show a kid puff pastry and they’ll certainly want to cook it, and eat it, and play with it…you get the idea!  From taco puffs to Napoleons, we worked with puff pastry in all it’s glory, and finished the day with some terrific treats too. :)

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