My Family Food Traditions(: Samantha

well in my family we have a lot of food traditions especially on the holidays. my grandma is always the one cooking along with my mother and my aunt sometimes helps. during holidays or winter times we always make tamales of pork or chile verde, mole, posole, chicharones, and ponche. ponche is a drink where you use tamarindo, apples, cinamon, tejocotes, a little bit of orange, cana, guayaba, and sugar.

 tamales

 ponche

 mole

iLove My Grandma's Posole && Mole (: Those Are My Favorite <3

My Family Food Memory :D Frenesis (Fifis)

Ummm we have a lot of food memories but im only going to name a few. For Christmas we all get together at my house and make menudo or sopapillas. All the women are in the kitchen making the food and the men are outside cleaning in the garage for the party. For New Years we make tamales some with pork, green chile and cheese and some that have pecans, raisins, coconuts and other things. On New Years the men are outside making chicharrones but we are always aware before the chicharrones are made because we get temblorosos with salt and limon on a corn tortilla yummm :) p.s. chicharrones is the skin from the pigs and temlorosos is the stage before the skin starts to get hard.
-chicharrones
 -sopapillas
-tamales de dulce with raisins

Ruth and Grandpa Zekiel's Meatloaf :D

 I have alotta memories when it comes to cooking with the family. The one I remember the most is when me and my grandpa made his secret recipe for the best meatloaf with incredible, finger- licking marinara sauce XD I cant tell you the exact recipe, but it was an awesome moment to find out what my grandpa does to make the best meatloaf. One hint, a lotta eggs!! He rarely shares any of his recipes, whether its for savory foods or desserts. It made me feel like he supported my interest in culinary when he shared the famous meatloaf recipe (:

Susie - Tooties! (Favorite Food Memory)

My favorite food memory is when we all get together to make Tamales on Christmas Eve. I love helping my mom mix the masa, then help my aunt and grandpa smear the masa on the leafs, and finally put the meats in the middle and wrap them up to cook. We usually take like half of a day doing them since we make like around 500 tamales. What I also like about doing them is that I get to spend some time with my family and more since it is Christmas Eve.

Raveyn McMillian ~**Rae Blast**~

I've discovered through cooking that i dont like recipies. I just like to have ingredients and just to go from there. From sophmore year to now, i do know that i do not want to persue a career in culinary but would like to have a huge family to have huge dinnes, so that i can cook for them.

Kameron Taraz Speed

I always saw my granny in the kitchen i always wanted to help but she wouldnt let me but i started to make up my on food when i was young and i still do till diz day.

Gamahaly Espinoza

I have many family traditions. One of my family traditions is that on Thanksgiving we eat Turkey, Tamales, Pozole, Ribs, and Jamon al Horno. These foods are very traditional. Also, on Christmas, al my family and I like to make a dessert called Bunuelos! these are very delicious and sweet!! It is the perfect dessert to eat on Christmas. We also eat Tamales, Carnitas, and Barbacoa! On New Years we like to celebrate the new year with a drink called Ponche. It is a drink with different fruits in it and you can drink it cold or hot, however you like it!! It is very yummy and very traditional. All these foods and drinks are a tradition that my family and I like to do!! :) :D  

Norma A. (Senior Sous Chef)

Throughout the years of culinary in Skyline I have learned many things. Originally I was pursuing a career in culinary, but I have learned that I really want to be a pastry chef. Through cooking iv learned that I have patience and creativity. Me having patience was the last thing I would think that I would have but iv learned throughout the cooking and baking experience that its essential. I only have patience for my passion or something that I really care for. A discovery I made last year when working with Noehly (senior sous chef) is that when were both mad we usually do an amazing  job and dish out awesome dishes or baked goods. Another discovery of mine is that I will never ever!!! send out anything that im not satisfied with.I learned that my call is in the culinary industry but mainly the pastry side. Culinary is a never ending learning place and its just beginning. As we step in the industry we will discover and learn many things. :D

Barbara Stovall SENIOR

  Culinary is very influential. Learning how to cook helps make living life a little bit easier. For me, cooking has made me realize the ups and downs life has to offer. When I am trying out a new recipe and it fails, I just retry the recipe in a different way. This has made me realize that in life when something doesn't work out the way I want to I just have to try again and work out the kinks.
     Through cooking I have discovered a lot about my personality and how my attitudes affect the outcome of my food. When I'm happy my dishes are colorful, creative, and taste amazing. When I'm not my dishes are bland, pale, and mediocre. However, overall culinary has taught me not to worry about things I can't change...

Barbara Stovall SENIOR

     Well I grew up basically raising my sister and brother. I would help with homework. I would make sure they had baths and were in bed on time. I made sure they had clean clothes. I would do all I could for them (short of providing their shelter), not because my parents weren't there, but because they were usually not up for taking care of them. Because I had to grow up quickly, I had to learn how to survive quickly. I had to teach my sister and brother how to go out and get what they needed on their own, because no one else was going to do it for them. Yet, I was always in the background, just in case they fell.....
     They are the reason I cook. They influence my passion for cooking. They drive me to succeed and do my best so I can make things better for them. Without them their would be no need to have a family dinner on Sunday. Their would be no need to be covered head to toe in flour trying to make the "biggest" cookie in the world. Their would be no need to show them the joy of being able to turn nothing into something, to show them that from nothing they can be something. Without my sister and brother I would have never dabbled in cooking. I would have never gotten to experience the sheer joy of taking random ingredients, creating something amazing, delicious, and memorable to make my sister and brother happy. Culinary arts is my life and I thank my sister and brother for giving me the opportunity to realize it.

aARON - Favorite Family Food Memory

My favorite family food memory would have to be the time my grandmother and I made a rotiseree chicken rubbed in some simple spices. It was hot summer night and my grandmother really didnt feel like cooking a full meal, so we just put a whole chicken in the rotiseree. Once it was finished, we simply left the bird on the spit and carved the pieces we wanted. Like CAVEMEN!!!!

Norma A. (Senior Sous Chef)

Throughout the years of culinary in Skyline I have learned many things. Originally I was pursuing a career in culinary, but I have learned that I really want to be a pastry chef. Through cooking iv learned that I have patience and creativity. Me having patience was the last thing I would think that I would have but iv learned throughout the cooking and baking experience that its essential. I only have patience for my passion or something that I really care for. A discovery I made last year when working with Noehly (senior sous chef) is that when were both mad we usually do an amazing  job and dish out awesome dishes or baked goods. Another discovery of mine is that I will never ever!!! send out anything that im not satisfied with.I learned that my call is in the culinary industry but mainly the pastry side. Culinary is a never ending learning place and its just beginning. As we step in the industry we will discover and learn many things. :D

Oscar Gonzalez : Food Memory

Whether it's a party or a regular cook out, my father has always kept me by his side to cook bbq chicken, sausages, fajitas, pig skins, and carnitas. Today, he asks me to cook the food ever since I had applied to culinary arts. I suppose you can say it's a father-son thing, and in my eyes, it's the greatest food memory.

DreNae Davison's Favorite Food Memory

my family and i have so many food memories and traditions.  one of my favorites would have to be probably the funniest. so, each family has thier own sunday to cook and feed everyone in the family. so on first sundays its my granny's turn,second sundays are me and my mom,on third sundays it my aunt,and third sunday is usually ordered out food. However, on fifth sundays it the men in the family turn,which is my grandpa,cousin,and my brother.So one fifth sunday all the women and girls left to go visit my great grandma,and left the men and boys to finish dinner. when we arrived back,the kitchen was a TOTAL DISASTER! However, when we got to the dining room table, all that was thier was barbecue beans and cornbread. It was the funniest and probably one of my most favoritable sundays of all time! So now on fifth sundays we all just contribute to a fiest!

Carina V. "Food Memories"

One of my favorite food memories with my family is probably from times around Christmas and New Years. It may be the only time around the year my mom makes a lot of tamales. She makes them very handmade and very old style so, that's why I love them because they ae so delicious. I know many people do them way different but, I really don't care 'cause I mostly love my mothers cooking. I love how the taste and favoritism of food brings our family together to have wonderful times. (:

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Sunday Mornings ♥

     Growing up Sunday breakfast has always been a tradition of my family's. Since the Sunday after I left the hospital to the Sunday a couple of days ago, the tradition has been followed even though every once and a while one or two families cant make it. Every Sunday morning around 11 my grandmother and grandfather and there four kids and there families all get together at my grandparents' house for menudo which is a Mexican sound made with hominy and pork. Its the one time of the week where we're all together, talking about how our week went, laughing at each other, smiling, enjoying each others company and even reminiscing about the old days when they were young and when my cousins and i were younger. The best part was eating that soup. that soup is by far the BEST menudo i have ever tasted and I'm not just saying that because my grandparents bought me my first car. :D


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: ) Traditions in My Family (Marshell)

Hello AGAIN. Today I am to blog about my family's traditions. We have two traditions in my family.

One: Cook/Bake all the food the night before Thanksgiving. & The day of Thanksgiving we all gather in a circle, pray, then EAT :D.  <-- That's the best part.

Two: We all open one present the day before Christmas.

<- My mom & I




                              Alric & I   ->

Chicken Little

Well for me culinary arts has helped me discover a lot about myself. I have made some hard choices in life but one thing that is always going to be a life changer is being here in this cluster doing what I love with the people I have become family with. Since cooking I have gained some control of my anger lol but I still loose it sometimes. I use to quite a lot of things in my life and now with the determination I have gained i want everything to be the best. I can be calm and nothing matters when I cook and what can i say but i love it

Samuel (*The Great Isaiah*) Crayton

To be honest i really haven't discovered anything about myself through cooking. I realized that it wasn't for me my sophmore year. I enjoy cooking sometimes but it just doesn't fit me that is why i feel that i cannot discover anything about myself through cooking. But if there one thing i discovered through cooking is that i like doing it with my peers. It makes cooking worth my time when we are in the kitchen working togther we seem like a family.

Carol ==.==

Through the years, being in culinary arts has taught me valuable life lessons that I take with me into the big world.  I have learned that I can be extremely patient (when needed), a skill that I did not used to be good at. I also learned that in order to succeed one must sometimes ask for help from other. Also when things don't work your way like a recipe (or anything in life), its better to go with it rather than trying to contradict the situation (I don't like confrontation ).