Culinary

High School Family & Consumer Science Course

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Week 1: April 6-10

Learning Goal:

I can practice my kitchen safety and sanitation skills and earn an industry standard ServeSafe certificate that is valid for 3 years.

Estimated Time for The Week: 2 hours

Learn & Practice:

  • Create an account with ServSafe. Write down your User ID and Password for future use.
  • Under “ServSafe Food Handler Online Course and Assessment BUNDLE”, select “ADD TO PROFILE”.
  • Once you have added the course to your profile, click on “ServSafe Food Handler” at the top left of your screen.
  • Then click on “Take Online Course” at the top left. You will see the course under “My Online Courses”.
  • Choose “Launch” to start the course.
    • This is a 2 hour interactive training that you are not able to skip through.
    • You can stop the tutorial at any time and then log back in to continue.
    • At the end of the training, there is a 45 question test. You will not be able to start and stop until the test is finished.
    • Once you have completed the test with a passing score, send a screenshot of your score to your Culinary teacher so that we can celebrate your success.

Notes

  • I encourage all current and future culinary students to take advantage of this amazing opportunity!!
  • This training is highly regarded in the culinary industry. Many restaurants require you to take this training and pay for it yourself.
  • The cost is usually $15.00, but it is available for a limited time for FREE. This offer expires on April 30th.
  • If you have trouble logging in, go back after an hour or so and try again. The system may be running slow due to the number of people taking advantage of this opportunity.

Week 2: April 13-17

Learning Goal:

Exploring different diets: Vegetarianism and Veganism

  • Student: Will gain an understanding of how to transition over to these lifestyles. This is something you can do with family members or use Social Media and “challenge” your friends to do it with you.

Estimated Time for The Week: 60 minutes. More if you actually cook.

Learn & Practice:

  • Watch: Funny Hunter's Video A Hunter's Guide to His Vegetarian Daughter and Vegan Son
  • Website: Vegan Recipes Offers great resources and plans of actions to explore this new way of eating. It includes numerous links and recipes.
  • Create: Here is an example of a 31-day Vegan meal plan try to plan out your own with the help of your family.
  • Share: Share some pictures of the Vegan/Vegetarian recipes you created
  • Reflect: After trying this for a few days, what are your thoughts? Was it hard? Did you feel any different? Are you likely to continue?

Week 3: April 20-24

Culinary Arts

Learning Goal: Why do you need to understand equivalents?

How many cups in a gallon? How many teaspoons in a ¼ cup?

  • Student: Will gain an understanding of fractions and how they are used in cooking .
  • This is something you can do with family members. Teach this to your younger siblings as you make a recipe you’ve converted. Explaining reinforces your understanding.
  • Estimated Time for The Week: 40 minutes

Learn & Practice:

  • Watch: Fractions video Youtube Video on Fractions
    • I know, I know! This may seem elementary, but I encourage you to watch it. How can you apply this to measuring cups and measuring spoons?
  • Website: Conversion Chart
  • Practice: Becoming familiar with the tools in your kitchen
    • Practice dividing ingredients smaller portions so you can see a visual model of fractions (i.e. cutting tortillas into thirds or quarters Visual model
    • Use measuring cups and measuring spoons to show how many smaller units you need to add up to one bigger cup (i.e. scooping ¼ cup 4 times is the same as scooping 1 cup).
    • When you double a measurement, you end up with 2x as much. This is an example of doubling ⅔. Can you do the same with ¾? Try the activity that is shown in the video mentioned above.

Create: Try this recipe. Since you’re sharing, see if you can double it using what you learned Brownie Recipe

Share: Upload pictures of what you created to Instagram.


Week 4: April 27 - May 1

Culinary Arts, Week #4

Learning Goal: Surviving a Quarantine and still filling your belly.

  • Student: Will gain an understanding of the importance of having a well stocked pantry.
  • This is something you can do with family members.
  • Estimated Time for The Week: 40 minutes

Learn & Practice:

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is officially a pandemic, and depending on where you live, you are either close to some burgeoning centers of disease or are anticipating cases emerging in the coming days. While everyone is figuring out what songs work best to ensure proper hand-washing time, and learning how to DIY hand sanitizer with a passion shown only by the slime-making tweens of yesteryear, we thought it might be a good time to talk about some basic pantry staples you should actually stock up on.


While we all love the convenience of heat-and-serve foods, they often just provide for one meal. Why is it important to think beyond “quick meals”?

  • Practice: Becoming familiar with the foods you have on hand in your kitchen. Do you have items in your pantry, refrigerator, and that are recommended? How many meals can you make with what’s on hand?

Create: Soup Is the Best Food to Prep for a Future Quarantine — Here’s Why

Using your newfound knowledge, make your family soup for dinner.

Share: Upload pictures of what you created to Instagram.


Week 5: May 4-8

Culinary Basics and Advanced, Week #5

Learning Goal:

I can explore various careers in the culinary industry. We talk a lot about becoming a chef or owning a restaurant, but there are so many other careers that are related to culinary arts. You might be surprised that there are so many options.

Estimated Time for The Week: 30 minutes

Learn & Practice:


Teacher Note:


Your whole life people have asked you, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” The older you get, the more pressure you have to make that decision. Researching careers can help you find the career path that is meant for you.


When Mrs. Harris was a junior in college, she was told she could not enroll until she declared a major. She had no idea what she wanted to do but knew she wanted a career that she could enjoy so she could wake up every morning happy to go to work. Mrs. Harris went home and printed off a list of degrees the college offered and started highlighting different options that she thought she might like. When she came across Family and Consumer Sciences Education she wondered if that meant “Home Ec.” so she contacted the college and verified that FACS was indeed what was also known as Home Economics. After reading the course listings and requirements, Mrs. Harris knew instantly that she was meant to be a FACS teacher. Before that moment, she had never even considered it. Since that moment, she has been passionate about her career. This is not an attempt to recruit FACS teachers but a true sharing of a personal search for a career field. Mrs. Harris is sharing this perspective because if she had not started researching all available options, even the ones she had not considered before, she may not have ever found a career that she was excited about and still enjoys.


Week 6: May 11-13

Culinary Arts, Week #6

Learning Goal: Knowing your Knives: Knife Skills 101 or 102 :)

  • Students learn to properly hold a knife.
  • Students learn to identify several types of knife cuts.
  • Students learn to make the correct knife cuts using vegetables.

Estimated Time for The Week: 40 minutes

Learn & Practice:

Use this Infographic to identify different types of knives. Which kind do you have at home?

Create: This is something you can do with family members by preparing a recipe.

  • Can you guess what cuts you will be doing? The recipe says “thinly sliced, but what would be the culinary term?

Chicken Fajita Tacos Recipe by Tasty

Using your newfound knowledge, make your family fajitas for dinner.

Share: Upload pictures of what you created to Instagram or your favorite social media outlet.

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