In my blog I wrote about a restaurant that I visited, two recipes that have a main ingredient as chicken, a story about a time I made chicken strips with my grandmother, a chicken festival and a lab that I did in my culinary arts class. My theme for this blog is chicken and in my family we eat chicken a lot it’s just a popular food ingredient we have a lot.
Saturday, January 3, 2015
Restaurant review
Phone to order:1•866•439•0439 or order online
Address: 653 Terry Fox Drive, Kanata, ON K2L 4E7, Canada
Store hours Monday- Saturday: 11:30 am - 10 pm, Sunday: 11 am - 9:30 pm.
I went to the Swiss Chalet in Kanata with my grandmother and my mom. There weren’t many people there because it was only in the afternoon and had just opened not that long ago. I always feel welcomed when I go to a Swiss Chalet, this time wasn’t different than others. At this Swiss Chalet they didn’t have any music when I was there and the wait for our food was a long time even when there wasn’t many people there. We also had to wait a while to be seated there wasn’t a hostess there when we got there.The waitress was very nice though. Usually when I go to a Swiss Chalet it’s the one in barrhaven and the food is really good so I thought it would be the same as the one in Kanata. My grandmother had the quarter chicken dinner, my mom and I had the chicken strips with fries. My grandmother said her food was pretty good the chicken was good and her fries were good but my mom and I didn’t like our food at all. My chicken strips were overcooked and very hard to bite into and the fries were also overcooked they were very difficult to bite into and my mom agreed with me on this. They could improve on a few things like making sure they don’t overcook things or having people wait at the front so when people come in they will be seated right away. They should also have music because it’s a lot better when you're in a restaurant and they have music so you don’t hear other peoples conversations as much with the music on.
Savory chicken recipe
Ingredients:
2 envelopes savory herb with garlic soup mix
6 tablespoons water
4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves (6 ounces each)
2 large red potatoes, cubed
1 large onion, halved and cut into small wedges
Directions:
1.In a small bowl, combine soup mix and water; pour half into a large resealable plastic bag. Add chicken. Seal bag and toss to coat. Pour the remaining soup mixture in another large resealable plastic bag. Add potatoes and onion. Seal bag and toss to coat.
2.Drain and discard marinade from chicken. Transfer to a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish. Pour potato mixture over chicken.
3.Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 40-45 minutes or until vegetables are tender and a meat thermometer reads 170°, stirring vegetables occasionally.
Turkish chicken breast pudding
Ingredients:
½ fresh chicken breast
38 oz/1 liter whole milk
1/3 cup cornstarch
1/3 cup white rice flour
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 cups water
1.Start the day before you want to eat the pudding. First, place the chicken in a saucepan with enough water to cover it. Bring it to a boil and cook the chicken well.
2.Remove the cooked chicken from the pan and put it in a bowl. Pull the meat apart with your fingers into fine strips. Continue to shred the chicken as finely as you can. You can use the tines of a fork to help. This should be easy if the chicken is cooked well
3.Put the shredded chicken into a fine wire strainer and run it under cold water for several minutes. Rub the chicken shreds against the strainer while you rinse it using your hand or a wooden spoon.
4.Next, prepare a bowl of cold water. Place the strainer over it and soak the shredded chicken for about 20 minutes. Drain it in the strainer and repeat this process four or five times.
5.For the sixth time, place the strainer in the bowl of cold water and put the whole thing in the refrigerator and leave it overnight. The next morning, drain it, rinse it a few more times under running cold water, then drain the shredded chicken completely, squeeze out the extra water and set it aside
6.Put the milk in a large saucepan and boil it for several minutes. Add the shredded chicken to the milk and blend it with a hand blender two or three times until very smooth. Return the pan to the heat and continue to cook it for about 20 minutes more, stirring it constantly.
7.In a separate bowl,whisk together the cornstartch, rice flour and about two cups of water until smooth. Remove the milk from the heat. Using your whish, drizzle the starch in a very fine stream into the milk as you whisk it.
8.Once all the starch is whisked in, return the pan again to the heat and bring it to scalding temperature while stirring constantly. Cook it in this manner for about five minutes more until it begins to thicken.
9.Lastly, stir in the sugar and vanilla and cook it 15 minutes more. The pudding should become so thick that you can no longer stir it. Use the back of your wooden spoon to "slap" the surface to keep it moving as it cooks.
10.Wet the bottom and sides of a shallow glass tray. A rectangular oven casserole pan works well. Pour the pudding into the wet tray and let it cool down to room temperature. Cover it with plastic wrap and refrigerate it for about six hours
11.You can cut your pudding or scoop it out with a large spoon. Sprinkle some cinnamon on each portion before serving.
Homemade chicken strips
When I was younger, me and my sister were always at my grandmothers place. She loves to bake and cook things so we would always help her do those things when we were there. This time when we were there we made chicken strips they were mine and my sisters favorite thing to eat and this time we got to make them with her. Homemade ones are always better than the frozen ones. Chicken strips are quite easy to make you only need chicken tenders, bread crumbs, an egg, garlic powder, lemon pepper, cayenne, salt and pepper. Some people might like things a little more spicy so some people add some spices into their chicken strips like at some restaurants they put the chicken when it was breaded into buffalo sauce. I don’t like things that are really spicy so these were pretty good for me. Once the chicken strips were done and we took them out of the oven the bread crumbs looked golden brown and it smelt really good. When you picked one up to eat the bread crumbs felt really crumbly but they didn’t all fall off when you went to pick one up. When you took a bite into it it tasted really good you could feel the bread crumbs and tell they were crispy and the chicken was cooked perfectly because it wasn’t undercooked or overcooked. This was a great experience for me because I had never made them by hand before and to do it with my grandmother it was a lot of fun. I always love baking and cooking with my grandmother we usually make pretty good things.http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/patrick-and-gina-neely/tonys-chicken-tenders-with-honey-mustard-sauce-recipe.html
Thursday, January 1, 2015
Chicken festival
My tourism story is about the chicken festival which is in london,kentucky. This festival was started by Colonel Harland Sanders. The festival runs during September 25-28 and during this festival there a lot of fun things to do like a pageant, a hot wing eating contest, a 5k run for the roost, a chick-a-lympic and entertainment and much more. There is one place you must eat at it’s called Harlands Sanders Cafe, it was built in 1940 and was the first kfc ever. The Harlands Sanders Cafe is in 1002 W. Dixie Hwy, Corbin, KY, their phone number is 606-528-2163 and they are open from 10 to 10. There is also a museum with then cafe. Here are some places to stay when you are going to come to the chicken festival. Some
other places you could go to is laurel county there are a lot of things
you can do there. There is a camping spot that you can stay at if you
bring a trailer or tent. You can also canoe or kayak, golf, hunt or fish
and hike.There is also shopping places there. You can visit the Cumberland Gap National Historic Park Phone: 606-248-2817 to find out more about this park go to www.nps.gov/cuga/index.htm or the Renfro Valley Entertainment Center Phone: 1-800-765-7464 to find out more about this entertainment center go to www.renfrovalley.com.
4 star hotel:
Comfort inn & suites: Their prices are 98.76 dollars per night canadian.
Address: 2035 West Highway 192 London KY 40741 US
Reservations:+1 (800) 830-5222 (US/Canada Toll-free)
Phone number:+1 (606) 878-9900 Fax: +1 (606) 864-0384
3 star hotel:
Baymont inns & suites: Their prices are 95.23 dollars per night canadian.
Address:2075 Hwy 192, London,KY 40741 US
Phone number:1-800-337-0550
My lab experience
The Lab I chose to write about is the lab where we had to take apart a chicken. I chose to write about this lab because it has to do with my theme. For this lab we had to to take apart the chicken because we were going to use the bones to make a chicken stock for a soup. There are 6 parts to the chicken there are 2 chicken breasts, 2 thighs, 2 tenders, 2 wings, 2 drumsticks and a wishbone. For this lab we had to first cut off the wings then the tips of the wings. To cut the wings off you will have to pop the joints so you can cut the bone there to cut the tip of the wings off you cut the joint there and you then pop it so you can take that off.Then, you massage the chicken so it loosens up the muscles so you can cut the legs off better. Then you cut the thighs off but before you can cut the drumsticks off there will be a piece of fat and you need to cut that apart so you can see where the joints are.Then you flip the chicken over so the breasts of the chicken are on the cutting board so you can cut the fat part on that side. Once you’ve cut those apart you will need to dislocate the joint and cut around it so you have the drumstick and the thigh in one piece and do the same for the other drumstick and then you cut the the thigh from the drumstick. You do this by cutting where there is a line of fat that you cut alone to cut those two apart. The next step is to take out the wishbone and to do this you need to cut the shape of i which you can find where the head would be. So you cut around that until you can take that out, then you start to cut the breasts out. To do this you need to cut a line from the end of the spine to the top of it then you cut around the breast so you can get underneath, you follow the line of the breast to get it off. This lab might seem easy well, at least i thought it wasn’t going to be fairly easy but it wasn’t easy at all. There is a lot of effort to put into this lab because you have to make sure you do everything correctly so you don’t cut some parts incorrectly or you cut too much off of some parts. This lab has changed my view on how easy some things may look but it is actually quite difficult.
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