Salad and Sushi!

Hey Everyone!
This week in Culinary we made salads! Salads are a delicious and (most of the time) nutritious meal or addition to a meal. In class, my fellow students and I made a Caesar salad dressing (yes even with anchovies), and put it on a Romaine Lettuce and wrapped with a garlic tuile. They were delicious, but some of the garlic tuiles didn't turn out so well :/...

Also in class this week, we channeled our inner Asian chef and made sushi! A guest speaker came in from our own high school staff and showed us how to make Japanese Sushi! She showed us the proper ingredients, techniques, and customs used when preparing sushi. It was a great, and not to mention yummy, experience. Different fillings we had in our sushi included pickled ginger, imitation crab meat, roasted eel, celery, carrots, mushrooms, egg, and avocado. Our entire class had a blast learning a new skill from this incredible woman. Thanks Mrs. Bartlett! (I think I spelled her name right!)  :)

Our teacher asked us to research two salads of our choice and compare them. I chose a salad called "Romance in a Bowl" and a "Fruit Salad with Vanilla Yogurt."

Romance in a Bowl

Ingredients

• 4 cups baby salad greens
   1 carrot, peeled and sliced
• 2 green onions chopped
• 6 strawberries
• 12 fresh raspberries
• 1 teaspoon minced garlic
• 1/4 cup chopped walnuts
• 1/4 cup seasoned almond slices
• 1/4 cup dried currants
• 1/4 cup crumbled feta cheese
• 1/2 cup seasoned croutons
• herb vinaigrette
   
   
     
  Directions

1. In a large bowl, toss together the salad greens, carrot, green onions, strawberries, raspberries, garlic, walnuts, almond slices, currants and feta cheese. Divide between two salad bowls. Top each bowl with some croutons and serve with vinaigrette dressing.

Fruit Salad with Vanilla Yogurt

Ingredients 

• 1 package of fresh strawberries
• 1 large peach
• 2 plums
• 2 kiwi fruits
• 1 cup dark sweet cherries, pitted
• 1 cup honeydew melon balls
• 1 cup canteloupe balls 
• 1 cup pineapple
• 1 cup grapes
• 2 containers of vanilla yogurt

Directions

In a large salad bowl, lightly mix together the strawberries, peach, plums, kiwi fruit, cherries, honeydew melon, cantaloupe, pineapple, and grapes until the fruit is well mixed. Serve in bowls with yogurt spooned over the top.

The first salad is a green salad made of lettuce and other garnishes and also has a vinaigrette dressing. The second salad is a bound fruit salad that is composed of a variety of fruits that are bound together by a vanilla yogurt. They are very different, but are both classified as salads. They both sound pretty scrumptious, too! :) 

Tune in next week to see what delicious things we are going to be cooking up!