July 2015 - Italian

Hi everyone! Service Coordinator here. I'm going to continue our photo blog with images from our third monthly Friday Feast. This month's participants made their significant others very happy with the leftovers from this dinner. Feast your eyes on THIS.

July 31, 2015: This evening, we went Italian! A class of 5 residents (4 new and one repeating) made a delicious meal together. So much garlic and cheesy goodness...

July's Menu:
Chicken Cannelloni with Roasted Red Pepper Sauce, and
Bruschetta with White Beans, Sundried Tomatoes and Basil

Recipes can be found at www.cookinglight.com with those titles.

Crisp and garlicky bruschetta with shaved parmesan

Assembling our dish to bake

Filling our cannelloni shells

Side by side working on different dishes

Our Chicken Cannelloni turned out divine!

The Finished product. Jealous?

Our first cooking class at Mary Helen Rogers

May 29, 2015 marked our first monthly cooking class at Mary Helen Rogers Senior Community, and it was a great success! Each monthly class consists of 5 residents and the Service Coordinator. We learn about each ingredient, nutritional facts, and flavor profiles. All of us work in harmony chopping, slicing, and sauteing a main dish and at least one side dish. The best part? Sitting down to eat the fruits of our labor after we're done!

May's menu, taken from Cooking Light, was:
Pork Tenderloin Medallions with Balsamic Reduction
Grilled Peaches, and 
Wild Rice Salad

You eat with your eyes first, right? Look at what we made:
 

Starting our balsamic reduction with shallots, rosemary, garlic and balsamic vinegar

Grilled peaches. Or, rather, what would have been grilled peaches if I had remembered to bring my grill pan from home. Whoops! We improvised.

Pork Tenderloin Medallions served with our reduction

Wild Rice Salad

Delicious!

Our inspiration from www.cookinglight.com