20% project week7-Joseph Zayas-period 3

  This week, for my twenty percent project, I taught my little brother how to make Buffalo Wild Wings' wings. The first thing we did was went to Buffalo Wild Wings to buy the sauces. I skated over there on my long board, and he rode a scooter over there. We bought the three sauce box for twelve dollars. We picked out the Medium sauce, the Asian Zing sauce, and the Parmesan Garlic Sauce.
   When we got home and started cooking, I showed him how to cut the boneless chicken into the wings. Then we coated all the chicken with  a mixture of bread crumbs and Shake-and-Bake seasonings. After, we put the chicken on a baking pan, which had aluminum foil on it  to keep the chicken from sticking. After baking it for twenty minutes in the oven, we checked the chicken and found it cooked fully. Next, since we had separated the chicken equally on three pans, we put a different sauce on each pan, just enough to coat it. Then, we put them back in the over for five more minutes so the sauce can bake into the chicken. When we pulled them out and smelled its scent, it made my mouth water. After we served them on the plates, we put a little bit more sauce on them to top. After trying the Asian Zing and Medium, I had to top mine with ranch, while my little brother, who doesn't like ranch, drank almost half a gallon of water to sooth his mouth.

20% project week6-Joseph Zayas-period 3

This week, for the twenty percent project, I taught my little brother how to make a chicken pot pie. Our mom had just come home from the store, so we had more than enough ingredients to make it. First, we made sure to preheat the oven to four hundred and twenty five degrees. We used a pre-made pie crust, so we did not have to worry about the crust. Next, he melted 1/3 of a cup of butter in a pan, then added 1/3 cup of chopped onion, and cooked until they were tender. Then he stirred in 1/3 cup of flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon of pepper, 1 3/4 cups of chicken broth, and half a cup of milk. Next, we stirred in as much cooked chicken and vegetables as we wanted to. Finally, he put the crust on top, and cut a couple of slits in the top of the crust, to allow it to breath. It had too cook for about 35 minutes. I learned a trick when I practiced making my own pot pie, to put a piece of foil on the edges of the crust during the last 15 minutes, to keep it from burning. My brother pulled the pot pie out and let it sit for 15 minutes to let it cool down. I also have finally learned that to help my brother learn better, I need to go at a slower pace than I'm used to and to repeat instructions so he does them, instead of pushing my way in to do it for him.

20% project week5-Joseph Zayas-period 3

This week, I finally taught my little brother how to do the Chicken Cordon Blue. It actually took two tries for it to come out perfect. The first time, we totally set the oven on too high and we left them in a little to long. While they were cooking, we ran over to the liquor store to get drinks, and we took too long while we were out. Looking back, one of should have stayed with the food. >.< So when we got back and found them too done, we threw them away and started to make new ones. The new ones took us another 30 minutes to make, but they came out beautifully. Because we did them twice, we ran out of mozzarella cheese halfway through the new batch. So instead, we used Sharp Cheddar cheese that was in the fridge, and it tasted amazing! Next time, we want to put the cheeses together, to see how the combination would taste.