Omelets

Omelet Recipe
Veggie Omelet

2 tablespoons butter

1 small onion, chopped

1 green bell pepper, chopped

4 eggs

2 tablespoons milk

3/4 teaspoon salt

1/8 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

2 ounces shredded Swiss cheese

Melt one tablespoon butter in a medium skillet over medium heat. Place onion and bell pepper inside of the skillet. Cook for 4 to 5 minutes stirring occasionally until vegetables are just tender.
1. While the vegetables are cooking beat the eggs with the milk, 1/2 teaspoon salt and pepper.
2. Shred the cheese into a small bowl and set it aside.
3. Remove the vegetables from heat, transfer them to another bowl and sprinkle the remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt over them.
4. Melt the remaining 1 tablespoon butter (in the skillet just used to cook the vegetables) over medium heat. Coat the skillet with the butter. When the butter is bubbly add the egg mixture and cook the egg for 2 minutes or until the eggs begin to set on the bottom of the pan. Gently lift the edges of the omelet with a spatula to let the uncooked part of the eggs flow toward the edges and cook. Continue cooking for 2 to 3 minutes or until the center of the omelet starts to look dry.
5. Sprinkle the cheese over the omelet and spoon the vegetable mixture into the center of the omelet. Using a spatula gently fold one edge of the omelet over the vegetables. Let the omelet cook for another two minutes or until the cheese melts to your desired consistency. Slide the omelet out of the skillet and onto a plate. Cut in half and serve.

Recipe retieved from http://allrecipes.com/recipe/yummy-veggie-omelet/detail.aspx.

For our omelets, we didn't use the ingredients from the recipe. Instead, we used spinach and feta cheese. It was actually really good, and I usually don't like spinach. That week, we learned different ways to cook eggs. You can scramble, easy over, sunny side up, hard/soft boiled, over hard, and poached, and many more. For the omelet, we had to fry it in the pan, and put it in the oven. Things that went well were the taste, it had really good flavour even though there was only 2 ingredients. Although, it was a little bit too salty for me because of the feta. Things that didn't go so well were that we didn't really understand exactly how to make it. We then were told to put the egg mixture in the pan, add the spinach and feta, fold it, and then put it in the oven for a few minutes. I really like how the omelet turned out and I know I will try this recipe at home.

Make A Meal At Home

Baked Rigatoni with Spinach, Ricotta, and Fontina with Parsley Chicken

Groceries - The only groceries I had to buy were the ricotta and fontina cheese, rigatoni noodles, a red chile, and spinach. I bought these at Safeway and Extra Foods.

Preparation - To prepare the food, I had to grate the parmesan and fontina cheese, cut the chicken, chile and garlic, and rinse/drain the spinach, and of course get all the ingredients out and ready, as well as the equipment/tools.

Time Needed to Prepare Meal - about 45 min.
Time Needed to Serve Meal - 10 min.
Time Needed to Clean Up after Meal - 30 min.
Total Amount of Time: at least 1 hr. 25 min.

Servings from the Meal - Grains: 10 (Pasta)
                                           Fruits/Vegetables: 4 (Spinach)
                                           Dairy: 6 (Ricotta, Parmesan, Fontina)
                                           Meats/Alternatives: 6 (Chicken)
                                           Fats/Other: Olive Oil

Preparation/Process/Serving -

Ingredients for the pasta

Equipment/Tools

Grated cheeses

Mixture of ricotta, spinach, fontina, parmesan, and spices for the noodles.

The noodles cooking

Finished noodles

Ready and going into the oven

Finished product

Ingredients for the chicken

Cutting up the chicken

The chicken cooking

The finished chicken, with the wine and spices

Table setting

Family Comments - Mom: The rigatoni casserole had lots of nice colour and taste. The chicken was a bit
                                 spicy but was cooked well and was really juicy. Very tasty!
                                 Brother: The pasta was creative with colour, but was a bit overcooked on the top and
                                 lacked a bit of flavour. The chicken was really good and had lots of flavour.
                                 Sister: The pasta was pretty good but I didn't really like all the spinach, and the
                                 chicken was phenominal with a little less spice.

The whole process of preparing and serving the meal went pretty well overall. The recipes were actually really easy, especially the rigatoni. I had everything ready to go so it was easy to finish everything quickly. The pasta seemed a bit hard to make but once I got started it was really easy to follow. Although, I didn't completely mix the spinach mixture with the noodles so some of the noodles were a bit dry and didn't have the mixture on it, but it still turned out.

The chicken was also really easy to make, but I think I cut the chicken too small, but they still worked. One thing I did wrong was add too much red chile, it made the chicken way too spicy. Also, I think I added just a little bit too much white wine, but the chicken was really well cooked and juicy, and had lots of flavour. I could have also let the chicken simmer with the wine and spices for a little longer.

If I were to do anything different with the recipes, I would cut down the ammount of red chile and white wine in the chicken. I would also add something (like olive oil) to the pasta mixture so it wouldn't be so dry. Also, I would have given myself more time to make the meal, I was kind of rushing. My favourite part of making the meal would be making the chicken, I really like making chicken and adding different things to it.

Crepes

Ingredients for the Crêpes

·         3/4 cup of flour

·         1 cup of milk

·         3 large eggs

·         4 tablespoons of butter

·         1 tablespoon of sugar

·         1/4 teaspoon of vanilla extract (optional)

·         A pinch of salt

Ingredients for the Fillings

·         Crêpe Suzette: sugar + lemon juice

·         Choco-Banana: banana slices + chocolate sauce

·         Nutty: honey + nuts

·         Be creative and feel free to use the fillings of your choice!

Directions

1.     Steps for making the Crêpe batter:
1- Warm the milk and butter in the microwave until the butter is melted – about 45 seconds.

 2- In a bowl, mix all the dry ingredients (flour, sugar, and pinch of salt).
3- In a separate bowl, beat the 3 eggs; mix in the vanilla.
4- Incorporate the flour mixture into the eggs.
5- Slowly add the hot milk and butter to the eggs and flour mixture. You will obtain a very liquid batter.

2.     Steps for cooking the Crêpe batter:
Note: You will need a non-stick pan preferably reserved for only making crêpes.
1- Heat the pan on medium-high heat before starting to make the crêpes.
2- Once the pan is hot drop in ½ tsp margarine, Pour in one ladle of batter and spread the crêpe batter by rotating the pan in a circular motion.
3- Let the crêpe cook for few minutes in one side before flipping it to the other side. The crêpe should have a golden colour.

3.       Final steps:
Fill the crêpes with your favourite filling and serve warm. Enjoy!

In my crepes, I put bananas, syrup, and chocolate sauce.

This recipe was taken and adapted from the following site - http://www.cookingwithalia.com/index.php?option=com_zoo&task=item&item_id=77&Itemid=110.

Chicken Quesadillas

90 g skinless, boneless chicken breast, diced

7 g fajita seasoning

3 ml vegetable oil

3/8 green bell peppers, chopped

3/8 red bell peppers, chopped

1/4 onion, chopped

2 (10 inch) flour tortillas

45 g shredded Cheddar cheese

1 g bacon bits

45 g shredded Monterey Jack cheese

1. Preheat the broiler. Grease a baking sheet.
2. Toss the chicken with the fajita seasoning, then spread onto the baking sheet. Place under the broiler and cook until the chicken pieces are no longer pink in the center, about 5 minutes.
3. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
4. Heat the oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Stir in the green bell peppers, red bell peppers, onion, and chicken. Cook and stir until the vegetables have softened, about 10 minutes.
5. Layer half of each tortilla with the chicken and vegetable mixture, then sprinkle with the Cheddar cheese, bacon bits, and Monterey Jack. Fold the tortillas in half and Place onto a baking sheet.
6. Bake quesadillas in the preheated oven until the cheeses have melted, about 10 minutes.

On December 2nd, our class made chicken quesadillas. Everything seemed to go okay, we thought that we were supposed to cook the chicken in the skillet because we thought it would cook faster, but we were told to cook it in the oven, and it turned out good. We got all the vegetables and cheese ready. We cooked the quesadilla in the skillet because it was already hot, greased and ready, and we thought it would cook faster, even though it just barely fit into the pan. We just made one big one and then cut it into 4 seperate pieces. Everything was cooked thoroughly in the quesadilla and it tasted really good, and the whole wheat sesame tortillas gave it even more flavour. If I were to do anything different in the recipe, I would add more chicken. Other than that, the quesadillas were really good.