Maria pre-planned with each family to obtain the necessary ingredients in time for the Friday morning start that brought us toward making lemon meringue pie with homemade pastry crust! The class assembled in CELC’s regular Zoom meeting room, each from his or her own kitchen! Unexpected elements of this first-time experience were certainly discovered. [...]
Amazing! Maria teaching an online Why Cook? class! CELC students are each in their own kitchens with prepared recipe and all ingredients ... making lemon meringue pie, complete with homemade pastry crust!! What a wonderful, extraordinary learning adventure!And the finished pies!
A CELC student collaborative piece Have you ever wondered how to make the perfect chicken pot pie? We have and in our quest for the best pie possible, we learned some things that we think could help you on your journey to perfect pie-dom. The first thing to know about the crust is this. When [...]
CELC’s Why Cook? class not only has students thinking about culinary arts, but also has them considering how to express their experiences through creative writing. The Why Cook? blog below was written by 3rd-year CELC student, Sue H. The pieces of cubed pepper tumbled over one another in their race to get into the pot first. They knocked against each [...]
CELC’s Why Cook? class not only has students thinking about culinary arts, but also has them considering how to express their experiences through creative writing. The Why Cook? blog below tells the tale of an onion’s journey from soil to soup, as written by 3rd-year CELC student, Cade M. I: “I was once one. Now [...]
Why Cook? class inspires...
“Who’s on poppy seed and who’s on toffee triangles?” begins our Why Cook? class, which takes place on Friday mornings at Connecticut Experiential Learning Center. Students gather around a dining room table that is filled with an assortment of bowls, measuring cups, and wet and dry ingredients. After reading the recipes, students discuss what they [...]
When Helen Deimastro, owner of Ben and Jerry’s in Branford, inquired about CELC and then asked if I might want to bring the group in for a tour and some scoops, it seemed like it would be just the type of unique and novel experience we like to present to our students. Our time there [...]
Waffles aren’t something you think would be made during a cooking class. Ah, but you have thought wrong! On Friday February the 5th the Connecticut Experiential Learning Center (CELC) had their weekly cooking class. They turned a simple, easy food into a masterpiece with homemade whipped cream and fruit toppings. In the past CELC has made other harder, more extravagant foods, such as [...]
