Scones, Fruit Salad, Toad in the Hole

This week, I don't think that the group did as well as it did in the past. We were a bit more unorganized than usual, and some people seemed to be a little testy. I'll attribute that to CSAPs. Other than that, though, we got the job done and the experience wasn't horrible. It just wasn't as smooth as before.

Well, our toad in the hole didn't look quite as it was supposed to since we have a vegetarian in our group- so we couldn't put the sausage in the batter like you are supposed to. However, compared to a regular pancake, it seemed to be much thicker and perhaps not as airy. It also bubbled a bit, sort of like the crust on a good pizza. That doesn't happen to most pancakes, but maybe that's because you don't usually bake pancakes in the oven like you do with toad in the hole. I didn't eat any because I wasn't hungry that day, but everyone in the group who had some said that it was very good. I've personally never been a fan of pancakes, but maybe I'd like this. I'll have to try it again sometime. I'm also not much of a "breakfast food" person in general (just yesterday I had lentil soup for breakfast, haha), so I can't say I have a very educated opinion on this food as a breakfast item.

Here is a link to a Toad in the Hole recipe, courtesy of the Food Network.

My group did not substitute milk for orange juice when making the scones, just saying. You could probably substitute milk with just about anything of a similar viscosity and texture, like other kinds of juices. You might even be able to substitute it with different kinds of coffee, and probably even with hot chocolate or something like it.

For our cantaloup salad, we tried to stack it a little bit. It had been cut into generally uniform squares, so we used that to our advantage. We placed a few leaves off to one side for some decoration, and Kady put a piece of cantaloup right in the middle of our seedless jalapeno pepper, hahaha. It looked pretty nice, overall. It could have been worse. It's not the way I would have plated it exactly, but with what we had available at the time it was alright. I'm not complaining.

I know I should say that I enjoyed meeting new people and making friends or something lame like that, but, I don't exactly feel that way. I like my kitchen group well enough, haha, that's it. I have enjoyed cooking, but I seem to get stuck doing a lot of the dirty stuff. I've learned some new recipes that I would very much like to try again. I've also made myself learn to love to do dishes, haha. I don't know what to tell you. I don't hate this class, but I don't usually look forward to it. But if it makes you feel any better, I don't look forward to any of my classes, hah. In general, though, I think that this class has made me a better cook. I don't get to cook a lot at home because my dad likes to pretend that he's good at it, so this has kept me in practice.