All Food Groups

Dumplings

Accompanied by a flavorful sauce.

Stored

All produce must be properly _____________.

Summer Fruits

Always remember berries are great as?

Vegetables

An edible herb-like plant.

Highest

Canned products graded U.S. Grade A Fancy have the ______________ quality among canned goods?

United States Department of Agriculture

Developed quality headed for fresh fruit and vegetables and canned fruits and vegetables.

4 days

Even with proper storage, most food service operations do not keep produce for more than how many days?

Winter Fruits

It is a common misconception that citrus fruits are Summer Fruits. Citrus are?

U.S Fancy

Most fruits and vegetables purchased for food service are?

Color, size, shape, texture and defects.

Quality grades are a rating system based on quality grades focusing on?

Cool, dry, dark locations

Roots and Tubers should not be stored in the refrigerator at refrigeration temperatures but in?

Fruits

They are great to work with both raw as well as cooked.

Winter Fruits

They flourish the best in the winter time and ripe within cold, winter conditions.

Flowering Vegetables

This is the part of the vegetable we will consume are flower of the florets.

Sealed

Under the best circumstances, fruits and vegetables should be stored in __________ containers if separate refrigeration storage is not available.

Fruit/Vegetable Fruits

•All fruits have seeds in them which vegetables do not have any enclosed seeds. •Eggplants are very tricky to work with because they are going to be very high in water and moisture content.

Legumes

•Are an excellent source of carbohydrates and fiber. •Canned products of this should be dent free.

Gourds and Squashes

•Are easy to identify because they are going to have a very thin skin. •These cannot be consumed raw; they must be cooked.

Green, Leafy Vegetables

•Are usually consumed raw, but you can cook them as well. •Swiss Chard is going to be full of vitamins and minerals and is especially high in iron.

Stalk Vegetables

•Are very fiberus. •Asparagus generally does need to be cooked.

Flowering Vegetables

•Cabbages are great to use, they are available year round and are usually generally inexpensive and provide vitamins and minerals. •Brussels sprouts are part of the cabbage family, just take on a smaller form of that.

Tropical Fruits

•False conditions are going to be detrimental to these fruits. •Plantains are going to be larger, a little starchier, and if you were to peel and eat this, it is going to be very tough and not as sweet as your regular banana. •Also includes pineapples and coconuts.

Pods and Seeds

•Indicate we are actually eating the interior seed of the vegetable itself. •Your beans and green beans are very high in many vitamins and minerals and beans are also considered very high in protein.

Legumes

•It is possible to keep dried beans for one to two years, but are best used within six months of purchase. •Should be cooked until they are form to the bite.

Vegetable Fabrication

•One of the most important steps in working with this is making sure you are able to hold it properly before we continue with our knife cuts. •Leeks can be cut into many different variety or ways.

Pasta

•One of the most versatile and convenient foods to prepare. •Uses four main ingredients if fresh: eggs, salt, olive oil and bread flour.

Onions and Bulbs

•Onions will be found in any culture throughout the world and any different culture cuisine you have out there. •Leeks provide a nice, mellow onion style characteristic to our foods.

Fruit/Vegetable Fruits

•Pablano peppers are great to be used in grilling or more commonly stuffed. •As you can see, these peppers pretty much go from larger size down to smaller size and that is an easy indication of what the heat level will be on that pepper.

Roots and Tubers

•Sweet potatoes are going to have a higher bit of sugar content. •You do need to peel the yucca. •A waxy potato means that the potato is going to be higher in moister content and lower in starch. •Anytime you work with a baby potato, I would not peel or cut them.

Roots and Tubers

•The eyes, you want to make sure are nice and small and are not sunken into the potato. •Potatoes naturally produce solanine as a defense against insects, diseases, and predators. •They should be kept in very dark places; dry or room temperature.

Graisn

•The plant is called Arborio and is just like the long grain rice, except it is just a different plant. •Whole grains should be purchased in quantities which can be used within three weeks. •The water softens the outer layer of the whole grains such as barley making them easier to cook. •Risotto is a cooking method wishing commonly used medium grained rice called arborio.

Fruit/Vegetable Preparation

•The quality of the fruit does deteriorate. •Any type of acid will work; lemon, like even grapefruit if you wanted to go with that.

Fruit/Vegetable Preparation

•The skin is going to protect the interior or flesh of the fruit from oxygen. •We are forcing the ripening of the fruit and that is actually brining out the sugars and discoloring it.

Grains

•There is a different way it is manufactured, there is milled and then there is stone ground. •This actually comes from the rice plant and this is the eeed that has been processed and what has been removed is the bran and the germ.

Roots and Tubers

•These vegetables are little bit starchier in texture. •You do want to peel the turmeric and it does need to be minced as well. •Tubers grow directly into the ground and they don't have any stocks to indicate where they are located.

Vegetable Fabrication

•This is the most effective and most safe way to cut an onion. •Start by just making horizontal little cuts into it.

Pasta

•When adding sauce, the sauce should be the right consistency to compliment the type. •Filled of this needs only a very light sauce because a heavy sauce can overpower or conflict with the flavor of the filling.