Everyday in room 325 our panthers are coming out with delicious recipes, ready to be tried, tasted and enjoyed.  They are ready to share with us their secrets, their wonderful ideas, their specialties and favorite dishes but most important they are going to tell us about their passion for cooking, how they feel and why they chose to do it. They’re going to tell us about new events and with them we will talk with their teacher: Mrs Montarez. She will introduce us in a new, sweet and delicious food world and you’ll be able to discover and learn her fantastic recipes!

Mrs Montanez

• What to do you like to teach in this class?

“I teach two different culinary classes; I have a culinary class, it’s like an intro to the culinary world and then I have a culinary two class, that’s where I run a student run café, where they make expresso drinks, and pastry islands and breakfast burritos. They have to pass the first year and then they can continue on the second one. They learn about profitability, cost analysis and costumer relation and basically how to run a cafe. It’s a great opportunity to get work experience as they are put into a real world experience where they are running a café. Extremely popular that we serve from the cafe are our breakfast burritos. We make those fresh everyday and those are like made to order so who ever, you know, orders that day, we make them that day and we also deliver them to the teacher or staff members within 15 minutes. So we are very busy!!”

• What do you like most of this class?

“I like how the students can learn by doing so in this class they learn about different techniques or methods through notes and lectures and then they actually get to experience what they’ve learned in their lab and then they actually can experiment about that technique and method.”

• Are there some new recipes you would like to share?

“I start at the beginning of the year with simple recipes and then, as the year goes on, we do things that have a little more of technique or methods that you need to learn in order to be successful. We do lots of different variety of things in here!”

How to make a delicious Breakfast Burrito! Yummy

Ingredients

8 slices bacon

1 (16-oz.) package frozen hash browns

8 large eggs

1/3 c. milk

4 tbsp. butter

Kosher salt

Freshly ground black pepper

4 large flour tortillas

1/2 c. shredded cheddar

1 ripe avocado, sliced

Hot sauce, for serving

Directions

1. In a large skillet over medium heat, cook bacon, working in batches if necessary, until crispy, about 8 minutes per batch. Drain on a paper towel-lined plate and pour off half the fat.
2. Cook hash browns according to package directions in bacon fat and transfer to a plate.

3. In a medium bowl, whisk together eggs and milk. Wipe out skillet, place over medium heat, and melt butter. When butter is just starting to foam, reduce heat to medium-low and add beaten eggs. Using a rubber spatula, stir every occasionally until soft curds form. Season with salt and pepper.

4. Assemble burritos: In the center of each tortilla, layer hash browns, scrambled eggs, cheese, two slices of bacon, and sliced avocado. Fold in the two sides and roll up tightly. Serve with hot sauce.

And then ENJOY!!

Joscelyn Baca

Strawberry Pretzel Dessert

Ingredients

2 cups crushed pretzels (about 5 oz)

4 1/2 tablespoons white sugar

3/4 cup butter, melted

1 cup white sugar

8 ounce cream cheese

8 ounce container frozen whipped topping, thawed

6 ounce package strawberry flavored gelatin

1 cup boiling water

1 cup ice water

*16 ounce package frozen strawberries or 2 baskets fresh strawberries

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Mix together the pretzels, 4 1/2 tablespoons sugar and melted butter. Press into the bottom of a 9×13 inch pan. Bake for 10 minutes , or until lightly toasted. Set aside to cool completely.
3. In a medium bowl, beat the sugar and cream cheese until smooth. Fold in whipped topping. Spread evenly over the cooled crust. Refrigerate until set, about 30 minutes.
4. In a medium bowl, stir together the gelatin mix and boiling water . Mix in 1 cup ice water and frozen strawberries, and stir until thawed. Pour over cream cheese mixture in pan. Refrigerate until completely chilled, at least 1 hour.

*If you use fresh strawberries

1. Slice and arrange the strawberries on top of the second layer of cream cheese mixture.
2. Dissolve the gelatin in 1 cup of boiling water and then add 1 cup of ice water to help it set up. When the Jell-O just begins to set, pour it over the strawberries on the dessert

And you’ll have a dessert you wouldn’t like to finish ever!!

Yesenia Flores

Pumpkin Bread

Ingredients:

2 cups flour

3/4 teaspoon baking powder

3/4 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon allspice

1/4 teaspoon ground cloves

1 cup canned pumpkin puree

2/3 cup vegetable oil

2 cups sugar

3 eggs

3/4 teaspoon vanilla

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 350°. Grease and flour a 9×5 inch loaf pan or 4 mini loaf pans. Sprinkle with a cinnamon sugar mixture for a nice crispy crust
2. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, allspice, and cloves in large bowl and mix well.
3. In a medium bowl, mix together the pumpkin, oil, sugar, vanilla, and eggs. Mix well with a whisk.
4. Make a well in the dry ingredients. Add liquid ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir until blended. Don’t overmix. Pour into prepared pan(s)
5. Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour & 10 minutes. Mini loafs will bake in 35-40 minutes. The top of the loaf should spring back when lightly pressed.

This will be the delicious result you’ll have!!