Mondays classes what to expect

Breakfast treats, cinnamon rolls, chocolate croissants, waffles, french toast, bacon and egg tart and ham and cheese stuffed french toast. We will make personalized granolas for the second class and a variety of salsas(fruit, tomato, vegetable) for the third.

What have we learned?

Cookies and more cookies. Stumped, lumped and confused. We had no idea what to do. The books sat piled high on the counter the goods were all on the counter. This is what you have to work with today and they did. Each student took a book in hand and created their optimal sweet. What they wanted to make, because sometimes that is what cooking is, making what you want. We all need that change once in awhile.

Halloween treats! on Thursday

We are going to make small cakes(cake balls) for our friends and family while learning about the English and Irish traditions of Halloween.

Halloween was derived from an old Celtic festival called Samhain, but trick-or-treating is a practice that is derived from an old European practice called “souling.” Souling is when the beggars of European cities would go door to door begging for “soul cakes” which are a type of small bread like cake. In return for a soul cake, the beggars would promise to pray for the deceased relatives of those giving the soul cakes. The more soul cakes a beggar received, the more prayers they promised to pray.

Glazed fruit flavored popcorn

We are making glazed fruit flavored popcorn tomorrow in cooking Around The World.

You can make different colored and flavored popcorns with this recipe for Glazed Popcorn.

Prep Time: 25 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 35 minutes
Ingredients:
8 cups popped popcorn
*1/4 cup butter
*3 tablespoons light corn syrup
*1/2 cup packed light sugar
3 ounce package gelatin, your favorite flavor or color
Preparation:
Preheat oven to 300 degrees F. Line a 15x10x1-inch pan with aluminum foil. Place popcorn in large bowl. Heat butter and syrup in small saucepan over low heat. Stir in sugar and gelatin; bring to a boil over medium heat. Reduce heat to low and gently simmer for 5 min. Pour syrup immediately over popcorn, tossing to coat well. Spread evenly. Bake in preheated 300 F oven for 10 min. Cool. Remove from pan and break into small pieces.
picture and recipe from http://www.eaglebrand.com

* 1 can sweetened condensed milk maybe substituted here just increase popcorn to 12 cups

Popcorn - Cooking Around The World - The Americas

Popcorn was very popular from the 1890s until the Great Depression. Street vendors used to follow crowds around, pushing steam or gas-powered poppers through fairs, parks and expositions.
During the Depression, popcorn at 5 or 10 cents a bag was one of the few luxuries down-and-out families could afford. While other businesses failed, the popcorn business thrived. An Oklahoma banker who went broke when his bank failed bought a popcorn machine and started a business in a small store near a theater. After a couple years, his popcorn business made enough money to buy back three of the farms he'd lost.
During World War II, sugar was sent overseas for U.S. troops, which meant there wasn't much sugar left in the States to make candy. Thanks to this unusual situation, Americans ate three times as much popcorn as usual.
Popcorn went into a slump during the early 1950s, when television became popular. Attendance at movie theaters dropped and, with it, popcorn consumption. When the public began eating popcorn at home, the new relationship between television and popcorn led to a resurge in popularity.
Microwave popcorn -- the very first use of microwave heating in the 1940s -- has already accounted for $240 million in annual U.S. popcorn sales in the 1990s.
Americans today consume 17 billion quarts of popped popcorn each year. The average American eats about 54 quarts

http://www.popcorn.org

Mondays class update

Good evening, everyone. Monday class History of food will be the world of spices. we will be tasting different spices from around the world. This will be a short verbal class with tasting versus an actual cooking class.

Food at War we will make War Cake which contains no milk or eggs

Cooking 101 will do shortbread cookies some with Persian Lime Sugar and some with Lavender sugar

The plan was to do coffee tomorrow but my guest speaker can't make it =( so we will change up the plan.

Apple Corn Tortillas

What you will need
1 Package store bought corn tortillas
1 can apple pie filling
1/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon Cinnamon
1 can spray oil/butter

Preheat the oven 350. Grease a 9 x 13 baking dish or smaller depending on how many taquito's you pan on making.

Spray the baking dish. Spray the corn tortilla evenly. This is best done on a cutting board for easy clean up. Place 2 table spoons apple pie mix in the center of the tortilla and gently roll into a cylinder shape. Place seem side down in baking dish. Repeat until baking dish is one layer full.
In a small ramekin mix sugar and cinnamon together. Sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar.

Bake for 10-12 minutes until golden brown and crunchy.