Final Meal

For our final meal we did an Iowan theme. We made chocolate chip cheesecake, meatloaf, cream corn. green beans, and lemonade.

Monday we made our cheesecake. To start off we preheated the oven to 300 degrees. Then we had the cream cheese in the kitchenaid and beat it until it was smooth. While we were waiting for that we mixed sugar, butter, cocoa powder, and graham crackers into a bowl. I mixed it together and put it on the bottom of the springform pan and made it into an even layer. Once the cream cheese was smooth we added condensed milk, vanilla, and the eggs. We beat that on medium speed until it was all mixed. I then put a 1/3 of the chocolate chips in a bowl with 1 teaspoon of flour to coat them so they don't sink into the bottom of the cheesecake. Then we poured it into the mixture, and mixed it together. Once it was mixed we put it into the springform pan. Then it went into the oven for about an hour. Our teacher then then took it out of the oven for us and put it into the microwave.

Also during class on Monday, my partner made the lemonade. It called for sugar, water and lemon juice. This process only took about 2 minutes. Which we probably should have made more than what we did.

During storm lunch on Tuesday we made our meatloaf. We preheated the oven to 350 degrees. It called for 1.5 pounds of ground beef, an egg, milk, an onion, breadcrumbs, and salt and pepper to taste. I mixed all this together with my hand, which I had gloves on, while my partner mixed the brown sugar and ketchup together. The meatloaf was suppose to be in a loaf shape, but my partner made it fit the whole pan so we had to cut them into pieces. When it was all patted down we smeared the brown sugar and ketchup mixture on top of it. Then we put it in the oven for an hour.

During class I made the cream corn which was pretty easy. I heated the skillet to about 350 degrees. This called for 2 packages of frozen corn, heavy cream, salt, sugar, pepper, butter, milk, flour and cheese. To start off we put the corn, heavy cream, salt, pepper, and sugar into the skillet. I had to mix the flour into the milk and then I put it into the skillet and stirred it all together and put the lid on it until it got thickened.

While I was making the corn, my partner was making smothered green beans. This called for bacon, green beans, onions, garlic, water, salt and pepper. He cooked the bacon in a skillet and then he put it into a pan on the stove with the onion, water, garlic, salt, and pepper. I ended up helping him cut off the ends of the green beans and helped him put them into the pan and it cooked for about 15 minutes.

I thought our final meal tasted great. The meatloaf was cooked well and tasted really nice. The cream corn, was nice and creamy and had a great texture to it. The green beans were good, even though I am not the biggest fan of them, I still tried some. The cheesecake was delicious. It was very creamy and rich. It made me really full. The lemonade was great and it very sweet and it tasted amazing.