Happy
Spring! I am looking forward to getting
my herb garden started for this year, maybe with some vegetables too, like
tomatoes and peppers. I already have
some basil started in the kitchen.
Cooking Basics 101
at Lake Braddock continues This Weekend
Lemon Olive Oil Pound Cakes
The
third and final session of this class meets this Saturday morning, March 25, at
10:00 AM. This week we will be making
heavy use of the oven. We will start off
by baking a Lemon Olive Oil Pound Cake.
Our vegetable dish will be Roasted Lemon Thyme Carrots and the main
course will be Salisbury Steaks. We will
start these in a skillet, then finish them in the oven while using the pan to
make a reduction sauce with onions.
Japanese Dinner –
Oyako Donburi
Oyako Donburi
This
dish is from the cookbook My Japanese
Table by Debra Samuels (Tuttle Publishing, Tokyo). What is interesting about it is the way it is
prepared – each of the three main ingredients, ground beef, scrambled eggs, and
green vegetables (in this case, asparagus) are prepared sequentially in the
same skillet. First comes the beef, then
the scrambled eggs, then the vegetable, wiping the pan clean with a paper towel
after each iteration. The trick is to keep
the first 2 dishes warm while going through the sequence. The entire dish is served on a bed of rice,
cooked separately. Sugar is a big
ingredient here, being add to both the beef and the eggs. The beef also has Mirin, a sweet sake, added,
so it tends to be a bit sweet. Next time I make this I will leave out the sugar
in the meat and just do the mirin.
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Upcoming Classes
Here
are my classes for the spring term.
April
8, 22, and 29 – Saturday Morning – Cooking Basics 101 – Lake Braddock Secondary
School
May
4 – Thursday Evening – Introduction to Middle Eastern Cooking – Plum Center
May
31 – Wednesday Evening – Stuffed Jumbo Shells – Plum Center
June
3 – Saturday Morning – Beach House Brunch v2.0 – Plum Center
To
register for this class, or any ACE cooking classes, please go to:
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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