Brainfood Summer Institute 2010

Chese please
Class of Summer 2010
Chefs Challenge #2
Fresh ingredients
Yummy veggies
Veggie Stir fry
Tomatoes
Chef Sak with yummy Thai ingredients
Tofu
Stir fry ingredients
Red Curry Chicken
Slicing Chicken
Chef Sak and lots of food
Panang Chicken
Mushrooms
Last day of Brainfood
Demoing his skills
Guest Chef Sak Pollert
Working at the stove
Pancake fixings
Make your own pancakes
Lemonade
More apprecations
Class appreciations
Caesar Salad
Mini Pumpkin Cupcakes
Mmm Chocolate Pancakes
Finishing touches
Fabulous Interns Mallory and Lanie
Burger toppings
Baked Mac n Cheese
Baked Fries
Congrats to the winning team
We love tortillas
Signature Sandwich
Tuna Noodle Salad
Team KOF
Taco Time
Time to plate
Proud team
Presenting to the judges
Our turn to go
Only 30 minutes to go
Wrap it up
Look what we made
Judges hard at work
Chefs Challenge Signature Dish
Hungry yet
Hungry Judges
How do you want your eggs
Happy to be done
Great use of color
Great plating
Dynamic Duo
Do you like it
Dessert Time
Chocolate Heaven
Presenting to judges
C Squared
Breakfast of Champions
Almost ready
Chefs' Challenge 2nd Place Finalists
YumO
Splitting a chicken
So what did you bring
Shredded Chicken
Ready to eat
Roasting peppers
Plating our feast
Pico de gallo
Mexican feast
Making lunch
Looks tasty
Learning from a professional
Chef Kevin shares ingredients
Chef Kevin demos
Having fun
Hard at work
Enchiladas
Cutting avacados
Cooking tortillas
Class with Chef Kevin
Chop Chop Chop
Chessetastic
Yum!
Turkey and spinach ravioli filling
Tortellini!
Tiramisu time!
The finished product
Lots of dough!
So much ravioli!
Seperating eggs
Rolling pasta dough
Homemade ravioli!
Plain pasta dough
Making tiramisu
Pasta rolling machine
Making ravioli
Looks great!
It takes a lot of teamwork to make homemade pasta
Looks good enough to eat!
Learning how to roll pasta dough
Italian workshop!
Learning how to fold ravioli
Learning about Italian food culture
Kneading pasta dough
Practicing making a well in the flour
Finished tortellini
Learning how to make a well
Looks delicious!
Cutting out ravioli circles
Cream for the tiramisu
Cooking ground turkey to make ravioli filling!
Constructing tiramisu
Cheese and spinach ravioli filling
Building tiramisu
Bowl of tiramisu
Adding filling to the ravioli
Looks delicious!
Yum!
Wisconsin State Fair Cream Puffs!
Working on the stove
Wisconsin cheese
Wisconsin brats
Waiting patiently for burgers to cook
Vegetables for the soup
Turkey burgers!
Team work!
Stirring the soup
So many mini burgers!
Slicing the buns
Shaping cream puff pastries
Shaping burger patties!
Right out of the oven!
Plates of Wisconsin food!
Preparing bratwurst
Plate of Wisconsin food
Mixing it up
Making cream puff dough
Mini burgers!
Mini Turkey Burger!
Mini burgers buns
Making whipped cream for cream puffs
Making mini burger buns
Making cream puffs
Looks great!
Kneading dough
Ingredients for soup
Grilling time!
Homemade whipped cream!
He loves it!
Grilling bratwurst
The grill master
Great job!
Good times in the Brainfood kitchen
Enjoying Wisconsin food...
Delicious soup!
Decorating cream puffs!
Cutting dough
Cream Puffs Galore!
Cream puff dough
Cooking burgers!
Cooking bacon!
Chopping lettuce
Cheesy Bacon Potato Soup
Check to make sure they are done!
Bratwurst samplers
Boiling bratwurst
Bacon time!
Assemblying mini burgers
Apple Pie!
Brainfood Program Director Amy!
All smiles
Dessert Day!
Mix away!
Dessert day at Brainfood!
So many desserts!
Peanute butter mousse time!
Making cake!
Sugar sugar sugar
Chocolate galore!
Making red velvet cookies!
Peanut butter mousse
Peanute butter mousse cake!
Making peanut butter mousse
Hard at work on dessert day!
Red Velvet Cake cookies with cream cheese frosting
Chocolate shavings
Cake batter
Frosting chocolate crunch cakes
Cake time!
Making cookies
Searing tilapia
Pan seared tilapia
Plating seafood
Shrimp time!
Making spicy shrimp lettuce wraps
Sampler plate of seafood!
Seafood! Yay!
Making shrimp lettuce wraps
Red peppers for the coulis
Lettuce galore!
The benefits of Omega 3
Summer Intern Mallory helping out with dishes
Mango Black Bean Salsa
Seafood Time!
Making red pepper coulis
Shrimptastic
Cooking tilapia
Seafood Day at Brainfood!
Busy busy
What a chef!
Salmon
Cooking shrimp
Cutting shrimp
Team work!
Stir Stir Stir!
Grilling action
Demonstrating how to cut the steak
Fun in the Brainfood kitchen!
Chef Teddy helping make curry
Demonstrations by Chef Teddy
Chef Teddy!
Chef Teddy teaches students
Learning from the best!
Skirt steak marinading
Marinade for the skirt steak
Plate of street food
Grilling away!
Making salsa verde
Chef Teddy comes to Brainfood!
Learning from Chef Teddy Folkman
Curried lamb kabobs
Chef Teddy's favorite street food: Kielbasa with potatoes and kraut
Kielbasa
Hard at work
Street food!
Summer Institute Class with Chef Teddy
Enjoying the tasty street foods
Plating kielbasa for the class to try
Working together to make the donation
Learning about leadership in the community
Mallory teaches about the importance of community service
Cooking away!
Spinach and mushroom mixture
All ready for Thrive DC
Everything you need for a lasagna
A lasagna for us to eat
Putting the lasagnas together
Lasagna noodles!
Constructing the lasagna
Ingredients for lasagna
This lasagna is ready for donation!
Making lasaganas for Thrive DC
Ingredients for lasagna
Prepping ingredients
Chopping vegetables for the lasagna
Team work!
Lasagna time!
Making lasagnas to donate
Hard at work
Prepping lasagnas
Brainstorming ways we can help our community
Team work!
Vanilla semi freddo
What a tasty dessert!
Prepping the semi freddo
Enjoying the treat
Beating the eggs
Be creative!
Mix in whatever you like!
Semi freddo!
What a fun day planned!
So many possible mix-ins!
Yummy!
Whipping up some fun!
Beating the cream
So delicious!
Individual creation
Reading the recipe
Making semi freddo
Creative students
Tasty!
Make your own semi freddo day!
Looks good!
Enjoying their semi freddo
Chocolate semi freddo!
Brainfood chef with her semi freddo creation
Chopping parsnips
Batter for banana caramel cupcakes
Chopping for potato salad
Small pieces of potatoes make for faster cooking
Whipping some cream
Beautiful cuts on parsnips and carrots
Blanching root vegetables before sauteeing
Being careful with caramel sauce
Constructing the cupcake layers
The caramel glaze for the cupcakes
Draining potatoes for potato salad
Potato salad!
Students made some mint lemonade to accompany the meal
Platter of layered banana caramel cupcakes, about to perform a disappearing act
Maple brown sugar carrots and parsnips
Irresistable cupcake closeup
Learning how to work with raw chicken properly
The "cross contamination monster"
Breading chicken to bake in the oven
Making sure each piece of chicken has a good crust
Coating chicken tenders
Coating and breading assembly line
A tray full of chicken tenders and their excited makers
SO many potatoes!
French fries require a lot of knife skills!
Seasoning some french fries
Laying out french fries
Chicken tenders and an array of homemade sauces
Prepping ingredients for quesadillas
Chopping ingredients for pico de gallo
Chopping cilantro
Pico de gallo, coming together
Making homemade tortilla chips
What's chili without a shredded cheese topping?
Quesadilla fixin's, ready to go!
Chipotle veggie chili
Delicious, cheesy, golden brown quesadillas
Quite a feast!
Chili, quesadillas, homemade tortilla chips, and pico de gallo
Learning about the social value of food
Students comparing their eating habits when alone, to those when they're with people
A room full of busy students
Teamwork!
Latkes!
Okra taste test!
Stewing okra with tomatoes
Buttermilk cornbread!
Coleslaw
Artfully arranging the latkes, or potato pancakes
A beautiful platter of potato pancakes
Mini cheesecake cups!
Setting the table for a social meal
A plate full of comfort foods
A Brainfood community meal
Pancakes!
Sizzling turkey sausage. Yummm.
Shaping breakfast patties
Brainfood pancake squad!
Flipping pancakes
Contemplating pancakes
Portioned chocolate chips and coconut for some exciting pancakes
Pressing down that quiche crust
Portioning ingredients for pancakes
Portioning ingredients for spicy breakfast patties
Measuring for a quiche crust
Looks delicious!
Butternut roasted squash
Spice cookies
Spanakopita galore!
Homemade pretzels
Pretzels! Yum!
Pour
Mix Mix Mix!
Pretzel time!
Making roasted butternut squash
Making more spanakopita
Gazpacho
An absolute feast!
Hard at work
Cutting out spice cookies!
Homemade croutons
Making pretzel dough
Folding spanakopita
Trying fresh tomatoes at the market
Spanakopita
Smelling the homemade soap
Mushrooms!
Mozzarella cheese at the market
Carina demonstrates
Learning how to fold spanakopita
Onions!
Learning about growing mushrooms
Learning about gelato
Sampling gelato at the market
Busy day!
Fresh herbs at the market
Exploring the farmer's market
Chef Dean shares his secrets to cooking produce
Learning about fresh produce
Learning from Chef Dean
Guest Chef Dean Gold takes class to the Farmer's Market
Busy students
Field Trip to the Penn Quarter Farmer's Market
The finished product
Creamy fruit salad
Mincing!
Eating together as a class
Knife Skills Day Two!
Ingredients for Asian Sesame Noodle Salad
Busy day learning knife skills!
What a chef!
Putting knife skills to the test
Cooking can be fun!
Chop Chop Chop!
Making ratatouille
Ratatouille Time!
Prepping ingredients
Practice practice practice!
Fresh vegetables!
Practicing dicing
Busy students
Brainfood student with all the diced ingredients
Hard at work
Having fun!
Putting knife skills into practice
Don't forget to measure!
Stir Stir Stir!
Student make minestrone soup
Learning knife skills!
Carina teaches knife skills during Week Two
Checking the recipe
Getting an exact measurement
Concentration!
Handling cookie dough makes for messy fingers
Keeping the cookies at an equal distance
Shaping the cookies
Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies
So many cookies!
Going over new vocabulary for the day
Preparing ingredients
Deciding what to do with the strawberry puree
Icing cupcakes takes a lot of people!
Nom, nom, nom
A small army of cupcakes, soon to be devoured
Posing with the cupcakes!
When icing mini cupcakes, it's hard to not ice your fingers
Cheesy topping for Mac N' Cheese
So close to baking!
Getting down low to see the measurement
The last few steps in making pumpkin chocolate chip cookies
Pumpkin chocolate chip cupcakes, waiting to be iced
Students got creative with their icing techniques
Sweet potato biscuits
The garlic butter made these cheesy biscuits delectable
Learning how yeast works
Rolling out pizza dough
Rolling, Rolling, Rolling
Look at my dough!
Making a heart shaped pizza requires teamwork!
Making sure they follow the pizza design
Extreme concentration
Diligently reading directions
Brainfood intern and student, around their artfully topped pizza
A very creatively designed and executed FLOWER PIZZA!
Completed heart pizza
Cheesy breadsticks from the extra dough
One of the heart pizzas, and its creators
Let us eat already!
Pizza creators
More pizza creations
The ladies behind one stuffed-crust, pineapple pizza
Very proud of their creation

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