Clean

Working in a kitchen is really not easy work if you’re thinking that. You need to clean almost everything. It gets so hard but worth it. If you don’t clean your kitchen you can get people sick and you could even end up hurting your own self. If the floors are wet you could end up slipping and really getting hurt to the point where it is dangerous. I’ve heard of cases where someone was carrying a pot full of hot boiling water, and because the floor was wet they slipped and the water fell all over them and they got really bad burns. An example of getting people sick would be by not cleaning up after yourself after using raw meat somewhere. I would not be happy to get sick from that. You should always clean up and everything will be safe.

The Mstl

Working

I just started a coop at a restaurant and I already love it. I’ve learnt a few things already and I have only been there for two days. They aren’t really letting me take orders or making stuff yet. I’ll get there soon! I’m so excited for this, I haven’t been this proud of myself for a while. I’m finally going after something I really like. The people in the place are really nice and give me a hand when I need it. I really think I am going to stick in this type of career.

The Mstl

Chicken and rice

1. There is pot almost full of water. The water is kind of yellow because there is chicken powder. The chicken powder will give the water some nice chicken flavour. The pot will be on a burner. The burner is on high heat to make the water boil.
2. There is a box of rice that is white, blue, red and black. As you can see the name of the rice is called “Five minute rice”. It has this name since it only takes five minutes to fully cook the rice. Beside this box of rice there is a measuring cup which you can put 2 cups of anything you really want to put in there. At the moment I put in exactly one cup of rice.
3. The water is boiling in the yellow pot. Bubbles are rising to the surface of the water exploding once they hit the air. The cover of the pot is sitting beside on the counter so I can put it over the pot. The rice is getting poured in the water to start the cooking process. Once the pot has the cover on the cooking begins.
4. A yellow pot is taken off the red hot burner. It is taken off the stove so the rice can soak up the water and cook. The lid of the pot is getting water built up on the top of it. The water from the top of the lid drips right onto the rice.
5. There is a kitchen aid chef knife. The knife is stainless steel with the word “kitchen aid” on the blade. The blade is really sharp since I sharpened it the night before. The cutting board has chicken and roasters on it. It also has an ugly the cutting board has chicken and roasters on it. It also has an ugly yellow color to it.
6. I cut up the chicken breast. It’s all cut up in one inch cubes. There somewhat resemble a scallop. I put the knife aside so I could season up the chicken. It’s seasoned with salt and pepper.
7. The burner is on medium heat. I poured about two to three tablespoons of vegetable oil. There is a really big circle in the yellow pan. The circle is somewhat clear that you can see the bottom of the pan. Once the oil is ready to start cooking with, it will make ripples. This is notifying you that the pan is ready.
8. The pan has the vegetable oil making ripples. I grab the cutting board and the chef knife and slowly start pushing the chicken into the pan. Once it starts to cook the oils will start to splash. Once all the chicken is in the pan I set the cutting board in the sink.
9. The yellow pot finally has its lid off. There is a fork in the rice to fluff it up, for it to be nice looking. I poured soya sauce in the rice, to give it some more flavour. Once the soya sauce is poured into the pot I need to mix it in. Mixing it in will make it go into a light brown color.
10. I plated the rice in a round circle on a white plate. The plate is topped off with the brown rice with pieces of chicken on top. The chicken has black and red spots from the Montréal Chicken spice I put on it. Once everything this is prepared I sit down and eat it.

Pickles

Me friends and I were talking together about food. We ask my friend who has a baby on the way “What is the food you crave the most?” She answered “Pickles”. It got me thinking about how much I love those things. Nice and green crunchy but soft and juicy at the same time. How can you not like pickles? Now that I have been thinking about them since about eleven o’clock today I am for sure going to go home and eat some of them. The extra garlic ones are my favourite. Here I come pickle jar.

The Mstl

Restaurant

Last night for dinner I went out with two of my friends. We were trying to figure out what to go eat it was so complicated. I was saying Mr.Sub the one guy was saying Teddy’s and the other one just didn’t know. I started thinking to myself I’ve never had Teddy’s we should go. They toke me out to the restaurant. We waited about twenty minutes in line, it must be good here. When we first got seated my friends were telling me “You need to get the house salad it is amazing!” I ordered myself one to find out that the dressing on that salad was so good I could have just eaten that for dinner. I’m still thinking about that salad today. I will be going back there real soon.

The Mstl

Dinner time

I was making dinner last night and decided to make chicken and rice my ultimate favourite. When I was upstairs I was thinking I wanted to cut up the chicken into cubs and mix them with spices and some rice. Once I got downstairs I got all ready to cut up the chicken. What do you know; the chicken breast my dad bought still had the bone in it. I was way too lazy to cut around it. It’s not something I find hard to do; it just takes way more time to do and I was hungry right there and then. I would have probably needed to wait an extra twenty minutes just to be able to eat! When I am hungry, I want my food right there and then.

Trying

I’m sitting in class right now thinking about dinner time as usual. I’m really craving fried chicken for tonight. There is a place that is right by my house that makes amazing chicken and there fries are to die for. You can also get quite a bit of chicken for a really good price. The place looks like a dump but those places can have the best food. They pay more attention to the food but they also need to clean or their business would not be open. A lot people will not go into places that don’t look like they’re all fancy and stuff. All I have to say about that is, you should really give it a try. Don’t be scared to try new things. Trying it could mean finding your new favorite thing.

The Mstl

Little Money Can Still Fill You Right Up.

When I got to school today I had no idea what I was going to eat for lunch because I decided to bring money to buy my lunch. There was one problem I only had three dollars in my name. You can’t do very much with three bucks. There are a lot of places that serve food around this school. Having this option makes wanting to eat so much harder! You can’t ever decide. McDonalds’ or Wendy’s, Subway or Mr. Sub. It sucks because they all sound like great ideas that could fill my good ‘old tummy right up. Since I only had three dollars I decide that I would go for a nice pepperoni from a pizaa joint across the school. One big slice of pizza. Sounds good to me and oh boy was it ever good! Something you should try with pizza is barbeque sauce. It is pretty delicious I might say.

The Mstl

Frozen Food Can Always Be Good

I just got home from school, I noticed that I forgot to take something out for dinner. My bad! It’s all good, there is a grocery store around the block from my lovely house. I’m trying to think about what to eat for dinner. My dad says chicken wings I say fried wings but i’m really lazy and tired from today so i’m not really in the mood to do some cooking. When this happens, you just need to go for the frozen section and pick out something you might possibly like. It might not end up being the best thing you have ever eaten but it will fill up your belly and is really quick to make. For all you people that don’t like to cook this is the way too go. I’m going to leave you guys with one type. When ever you make to much food you can freeze it and reheat it another day. This is good for all you busy workers.

The Mstl

Home With Friends Or Amazing Career Experience?

Ever since I got into grade 12 this year all I can think about is COLLEGE! Its so nerve racking I really hate it. You need to decide what you want to do for the rest of your life and it is a lot of money. The program I want to get into is a culinary art which is learning how to become a chef if you didn’t know. I’ve been looking at few schools kind of around my area but it’s so complicated because the one school that looks amazing for this type of thing but it is miles and miles away. I would need to drop everything I have right here in my hometown for this. The thing is that this school is in New York City. Me being a Canadian girl it would be so much different living in the U.S.A. The program in New York would be Italian cooking/chef training. The catch to this school is that you will only be in New York for 9 weeks then the ship you off to Italy for another 9 weeks and is $ 39,500. Sounds exciting right? Also will make me broke for along long time. I hope I can figure all this out by the end of the year and not regret it.

The Mstl

Hunger Leads To Things.

Today around 6 o’clock, I was watching French Food At Home on the television. It gave me the erg to eat really badly. I got up off the couch and search in my fridge and freezer. All I could find were frozen burgers, I decide that maybe I should eat these patties finally. I fire up the bbq then notice I don’t have burger buns. I think to myself “OH CRAP I just made these for nothing!” I end up looking around the kitchen trying to figure out how to tell my Dad to go buy some buns. I spot the pita bread I bought while grocery shopping on Sunday. I decide to try out have a burger with pita bread, ketchup and onions. It turned out pretty tasty. Point of this blog is to try new things with food it could always turn out good or really bad. :)

The Mstl

How It Started

Ever since I was about 14 years old, I have wanted to be a cook. While I was bored one day I decided to sit down and watch some television. I was watching the usual, but once the commercials hit I flicked through the channels. I landed on channel 56 which is the food network. I ended up completely forgetting that I was watching my favorite show on MTV. All I can remember is that I really enjoyed watching this cooking on television. It was giving me all sorts of ideas. I started thinking about it, and thought to myself this could be a fun thing to do for as a career. It completely changed my mind about being a firefighter. Saves me the work outs!

The Mstl.