Week 11 Cooking Potatoes & Making Pasta and Preparing for 3rd Event

In this class we learned how to cook potatoes, I was very excited about it because we cooked a lot of potatoes at home. But during this class I have the opportunity to learn how to cook potatoes well and cook them in different ways.

 The above is the steps how to make duchesse potatoes, this teach us very clear what we should do and what we should focus on. By following the above steps we can make it easily and clearly.

 The above are all materials we needed, it was always hard to translate the names of materials, because there are so many different words in English. It was also the hardest part of this class as well.

We cooked potatoes after that, because it was hard to cook, we decided to cut it into pieces so it can be cooked more quickly.

After the potatoes has been cooked well, we mixed it in a pot. I looked really nice, I always like to eat potatoes in every ways, french fries or just cooked potatoes. They are one of my favorite food.

The chef was always helpful, the video shows that the chef was helping other group how to recognition spices and how make potatoes more flavor.

In the second class, we learned how to make pasta which is also my favorite food. The above picture shows all materials we needed. I think make noodles is the hardest part of cooking, because you have to handle with flour and know how to make it to a dough.

Then was the hardest part I think, the chef mixed the flour with water and eggs, after that we can make dough.

I think the most important part is to separate egg white and yolks. And water was also important, if we took less water, the dough will be too dry, we need to know how much water we need to make the dough more nicely.

 The chef showed us how to mix them all by steps to steps. When I cook at home, the noodles was always the hardest part. When I make it at home, it was either too dry or too dilute.

Because we had to prepare for our event, so we mad it by our own. And the chef helped us a lot. Pasta is always good to eat but hard to make. During this class I had better understanding how to handle with flour and dough. That was really nice.

The video shows that the chef mixed all materials with flour at one time. And he mixed it in the central first and then mixed them all. I think it was the best part to look at chef, to learn how to make it right. Because if you know every step and all things you should do, make dough is easily and also fun.

We have learned how to cook potatoes and make pasta after this week. I think make dough was the hardest part of cooking before this class. But I have learned that if you know what materials you need and all steps you should follow with, making dough and noodles will be very easy and fun. 
And the second best part was learned how to cook potatoes. Because we all cook potatoes a lot at home, it was very nice to know different ways to cook it. 
I have taken HA 240 class before, and I think it was the same thing that the most important thing in cooking is know what you have to do, so you will know what materials you will need. Preparing materials is so important in cooking and you will also know how much it costs you by making your food if you know the materials well.