Welcome to my final blog post for In-Depth 2022!

 

These past couple weeks have gone by fast. I’ve met with my mentor, cooked a dish, and finally started putting recipes together for my cookbook. Finishing the project off strong, I made niçoise salad as my final dish, as per my brother’s request.

I learned that niçoise salad is basically filled with anything you have at home. Originally, I thought that a salad wouldn’t be filling enough to be a whole meal. I quickly learned that I was wrong. I loosely followed the recipe for Niçoise Salad from the cookbook Rebar. I started by putting a bunch of salad greens on the bottom of the plate, along with a boiled egg, green beans, roasted tomatoes, olives, roasted potatoes & squash, and some cheese. Finally, I used the cookbook to make the dressing with honey, lemon, garlic, shallot, vinegar, oil, and dijon mustard. Overall, this dish was really filling and super tasty!

Recipes I used:

• https://www.everythingmom.com/food-2/food-recipes/salad-recipe-nicoise-salad-recipe
• Rebar Cookbook

Photos:

In-depth night:

For in-depth night this year, I will showcase my cookbook and do a cooking demonstration in my learning center. I plan to have a cookbook full of the recipes I modified, plus other recipes I wasn’t able to include in my blog posts. The cookbook with be the interactive portion of my learning center, as people can flip through it and ask any questions they may have about the recipes. For my cooking demo, I am still deciding on what recipe to choose (based on the stove I have with me). Then, I have two options:

1. Cook something and then give it out to people as “samples” (For example I could make veggie pinwheels and put them in separate cups for people to take, like Costco does)
2. To cook the demo and then have it for my dinner that night <– this is my plan B if the first option isn’t possible.

Either way, my learning center will showcase the work I did and the skills I have obtained. Going forward, I have to finish my cookbook and come up with what I can cook based on the options above.

 

Overall, the niçoise salad was rated 10/10 by my family!

See you at In-Depth night!

– Rian