Elective Classes

Cooking

Making Smoothies

 Note:  Cooking is not being offered in the 2012-2013 school year.  We hope to offer it again soon.
 
 
Our cooking class teaches students about nutrition, safety in the kitchen, following a recipe and basic cooking techniques.  And the best part is you get to eat a lot of delicious food that you have cooked!
 

What’s Cooking?

Our cooking class recently enjoyed making thefollowing recipe:

WarmBlack Bean Salsa

Ingredients:

  • 1tbs olive oil
  • 1 small red onion chopped
  • 2 cloves garlic chopped
  • 1 jalepeno or Serrano pepper seeded and chopped
  • 1 can – 16 oz – black beans drained
  • 1 cup frozen corn kernels
  • ½ cup sun-dried tomatoes in oil chopped
  • ½ cup smoky BBQ sauce
  • Salt and pepper

Directions:

Heat a medium skillet over medium heat

Add the olive oil

Add the onions, garlic and jalepeno  pepper

Saute’ for 2 to 3 min

Add beans and corn

Stir in chopped tomatoes ad BBQ sauce

Cook until all ingredients are mixed

Transfer to a serving dish

This can be used as a topping for quesadillas,chips, baked potatoes or other foods of your choice.
 
 
 
winning smoothies Photo to Right: 
 
The winning smoothies in the category of visual appearance for the Wangenheim Top Chef Competition.