CH-114 Lab Blog

T's CHICKEN CORDON BLEU If you're looking to elevate your dinner game with a dish that's both elegant and comforting, Chicken Cordon Bleu might just be the answer. This classic recipe combines tender chicken breasts filled with Swiss cheese and ham, coated with crispy breadcrumbs, and served with a luscious Dijon cream sauce. Here's how to master it: Ingredients: Breadcrumbs: - Panko breadcrumbs - 1/2 cup (for Super Easy) or 1 cup (for Quick Dredge) - Oil spray Chicken: - 2 small chicken breasts, about 6-7 oz (180-210g) each - Salt and pepper - 4 slices Swiss cheese - 4 to 6 slices of ham, approximately 2.5 oz (75g) Quick Dredge - 1 egg - 2 tsp plain flour Dijon Cream Sauce (Makes 1 cup): - 1 1/2 tbsp butter - 1 1/2 tbsp flour - 1 1/4 cups milk - 2 tbsp Dijon mustard - 3 tbsp Parmesan cheese, finely grated - Salt and pepper to taste Instructions : 1. Prepare for Golden Perfection:    Preheat your oven to 200°C/390°F (standard) or 180°C/350°F (fan). Spread Panko breadcru...

  Baked Goods Experiment Ingredients: ½ cup cooked oats About 1 cup of guava 1 Tsp Baking powder 1 Tbsp Cacao powder ¼ Tsp Vanilla extract  1 Egg Flour ½ cup ½ cup brown sugar Steps: Pre-heat baking oven to 350 Cook oats in hot boiled water till desired texture Blend guavas together and then strain seeds out to just get the liquid Throw in baking soda, cacao powder, vanilla extract, and egg in a bowl and stir till it becomes a very thick liquid mix In a separate bowl, mix the cooked oats, brown sugar, and guava liquid together and stir until it becomes one Pour the bowl of oats into the bowl of the mix and stir together.  Finally mix in ½ cup of flour to rethicken the two mixes Add oil spray to pan and pour the mix into the pan and throw into the oven at 350 for 15-20 minutes Taste Test:  My first impression when cutting it up to eat was that it looked like acornbeef hash patty that made some of my family laugh. But as far as the taste, it was pretty bland. It was mi...

 Chocolate   For this Lab, my house did not have much chocolate to work with so I just used the rest of an open pack of Hershey's Dark Chocolate chips. I poured it into a bowl and filled it a little with very warm water and begin to stir slowly. After stirring it, I separated the solids from the liquid into two separate bowls. For the solids, the water makes it softer and crumble when putting it int he mouth rather than letting it melt which I found pretty strange. I could be becasue of how it past a certain phase when it initially came into contact with warm water. As far as the liquid, it was VERY liquidy and had a heavy chocolate taste as expected. Just tasted bland and like watered-down cocoa. The main effects of whisking dark chocolate into warm water are the dissolution of cocoa solids and the emulsification of cocoa butter. However, after the liquid and solids are sep arated by filtration, some solid chocolate chips are left behind because of the ins oluble properties o...

  M5 Lab 8 - Dairy Products   Queso Dip Ingredients:  Cheddar Jack Cheese Low-moisture part-skim Mozzarella cheese Queso Fresco Casero Crumbling cheese Half & Half Tortilla Chips My Steps: Add the grated cheeses and eye ball the half and half in a bowl until it covers the bottom layer of cheesesover low heat boiling water Stir as the cheese melted and also let it sit to the desired texture. Poured into another glass bowl and served as a side dip with tortilla chips Taste Test: The dip itself was very cheesy and salty. The texture was also grainy when putting it in my mouth. When dipping the tortilla chips into it, the chips kind of disguises the real taste of the dip so in order to get all the goodness, you really have to dip a lot of the chip into it. It was also very easy to identify the dairyness because it was very milky and cheesy. I let my family try it and a lot of seemed to really like it. They kept digging into the chips and the dip. My "Tutu," (grandmother),...

M4 Lab 7  T's Special Oatmeal Ingredients: Chocolate Milk Oats Peanut butter Frozen blueberries Steps: Boil 1 cup of chocolate milk Throw in half cup of oats once milk comes to top boil Continue to lower heat and stir oats till the liquid soaks into the oats Once the oats come to a preferred texture, put in bowl I mixed in a spoon full of organic peanut butter and then just topped it with frozen blueberries  Taste test: For some reason it tasted very cookie-like with its own richness. It was mushy which is how I like to have my oatmeal. I liked how it looked like coco pebbles soaked and thickened in milk. I was able to taste the burnt parts where the oats were a little burnt and overcooked as well as the burn dairy part of it. But it wasn't anything too noticeable. When oats are boiled into chocolate milk the starch in oats absorbs water from the chocolate milk and undergoes gelatinization when heated. This process thickens the mixture, resulting in a creamier texture. The fib...