Post Date: 20 May 2015
Cooking Basics 101
Class – Session 3 – May 21
For our final session this Thursday night, May 21, we will
be stretching ourselves a bit. We will
be making an Irish Potato soup, which will give us ample opportunity to work on
knife skill, and preparing a Roux for the soup.
The main course will be Sautéed Broccoli Florets and Salisbury Steak
with mushrooms. For this dish we will
see how to make a pan reduction sauce.
This time we will be baking a dessert, a Lemon Olive Oil Pound
Cake. Please be sure to bring plenty of
containers.
Dining in Cape May,
New Jersey
Last weekend my wife Teresa and I went to Cape May for a few
days to celebrate our anniversary, and I want to share with you the low end and
high end dining experiences we had (both good).
I’ll save the high end for last.
As is usual on our first night there, we had pizza at Brothers II, a
pizza joint (in the true sense of the word) at the corner of Sunset Boulevard
and Broadway. With the exception of the
last day, breakfast was at another joint, the Bagel Time Café beneath the Hotel
Macomber at Beach Avenue and Howard Street.
Despite its size, it has quite an array of excellent breakfast dishes
and a patio to eat outside.
On the high end, for our anniversary dinner we went to the
Blue Pig Tavern in the Congress Hall Hotel and had excellent meals. Teresa had a wonderful Baked Salmon with
Risotto and I had Pappardelle with Bolognese Sauce. What made the sauce unique was just a hint of
cinnamon. For dessert there was Banana
Cream Pie with some caramelized bananas on the side.
For our last breakfast there we like to go to the Sea Salt
Restaurant in the Ocean Club Motel on Beach Avenue between Madison and
Philadelphia Avenues. The food and
service is always excellent. Teresa had
a ramekin with three baked eggs topped with goat cheese. I had a cheese omelet with home fries and a
fruit bowl on the side. The only
downside was that due to the weather we were not able to sit out on the patio,
but as is the past it was a fine dining experience.
Upcoming Classes
Here are the upcoming classes I will be teaching for the
rest of the spring term. The summer
schedule has been published and my classes are listed below...
May 31 and June 7 – Sunday Afternoon – Beyond Biscotti –
Plum Center
June 11, 18, and 25 – Thursday Night – Cooking Basics 101 – Woodson
High School
July 11 – Saturday Morning – Beach House Brunch – Plum
Center
July 19 and 26 – Sunday Afternoon – Summer Desserts – Plum
Center
August 15 – Saturday Morning – Lunch Along the Mediterranean
– Plum Center
To register for this class, or any ACE cooking classes,
please go to:
http://www.fcps.edu/is/ace/specialinterest.shtml and scroll
down to the Culinary section
While there, be sure to check out the other culinary courses
offered by ACE’s excellent chef instructors.
Till next time, keep cooking.
Contact Chef Kevin at: KJBrady@fcps.edu
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