Chef - Fun Activities - Retail and Hospitality

Retail and Hospitality - CHEF

Activity: Prepare a baked lamb dinner for your family.

Primary Middle Secondary

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability

Baked Leg of Lamb Stuff you will need:

1. A leg of lamb. Check the size that your family usually eats.
2. A sprig of rosemary
3. 2 cloves of garlic - skin removed
4. Potatoes - one medium size for each member of the family.
5. Sweet potato - one slice for each member of the family.
6. Onions - one per person
7. Flour - plain, 3 tablespoons
8. Large baking dish
9. Pumpkin - one slice per person.
10. Peas or another green vegetable

What to do

1. Carefully slice garlic length ways into 3.
2. Make six holes in the lamb - have them spread out over the whole of the lamb.
3. Into the holes, place some rosemary leaves and a slice of garlic
4. Place into pan.
5. Peel and slice potatoes and place around lamb.
6. Cut off the tops and bottoms of the onions and place these around lamb.
7. Cut out pumpkin seeds and peel. (Sometimes leave the skin on - it's delicious). Place in pan. If you have a few people in your family, you might need to have another pan.
8. Bake at 180 degrees or 350 degrees for one hour. Turn vegetables and meat.
9. Bake a further half an hour.
10. To make the gravy. Place meat and vegetables on a plate and replace in oven (now turned off). Pour off fat from pan but retain the juices. Add flour. Stir until the flour is mixed with the juices. Slowly add some water and return the pan to the stove heat, stirring all the time. When thicken, pour over meat and vegetables. You may need to add seasonings to your family's taste.
11. Microwave peas - only 2 mins.

Kitchen hand - after preparing the meal, wash up as many items as possible before serving. After the meal, wash up or put into dishwasher.

Comparing Recipes Online

Primary Middle Secondary

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability

Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Numeracy

1. You are to go to the following websites to compare and contrast two recipes as a Chef, Fast Food Cook or Kitchen Hand. Reading

Maggie Beer	Maggie Beer: Espresso Panna Cotta
Taste	Taste: Panna Cotta
All Recipes - Pizza	All Recipes
Best Recipes	Best Recipes

2. Create a table for the Chef, Fast Food Cook, and Kitchen Hand for both the Pizza and Panna Cotta and answer the following questions:

Which recipe is the simplest to make with the smallest number of ingredients?
Which recipe takes the shortest amount of time to construct?
Which recipe would be give the best return for a Chef? [Acclaim, Presentation, Appeal?] A Fast Food Cook? [Time to create, Acclaim, Presentation, Appeal?] Why? Why not?
Which recipe would be the simplest for the Kitchen Hand to wash up and get the next lot of utensils ready?
Which recipe is the best value for money - for the Chef and the Fast Food Cook?

3. In pairs, choose a recipe to cook or videotape the process.

4. Create an eLearning Journal of the videos and discuss which recipe is the best value for money.

Websites, Games & Apps

Masterchef

Middle Secondary

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability

Go and have a look at the current or old recipes and start cooking!