Month: March 2018

Meringa con Zabaglione

Meringa con Zabaglione

Meringa con Zabaglione This week, we made meringa con zabaglione e fragole (meringue tarts with berries and cream). The lab was broken into three parts. We made the meringues first because they require a long baking time. After preheating the oven to 300 degrees, we …

Integrative Assignment II – Olive Oil

Integrative Assignment II – Olive Oil

A simple Caprese salad with tomatoes, mozzarella, basil, pepper, and olive oil.   Assumption Though I had heard the term “Extra Virgin Olive Oil” and had an idea that it was supposed to be the best kind of olive oil, I never knew what it …

Spring Break Food Blog

Over break, my sister got neapolitan ice cream and we had it for dessert one night. I was intrigued by the name “neapolitan” and wondered what the Italian roots of this ice cream were. I couldn’t find any really reputable sources, so I resorted to …

Figuring Out Food II

Figuring Out Food II

My food item was Simply Balanced Apricot Fruit Strips. A protein is a macromolecule made up of many amino acids linked together with peptide bonds. Different proteins are made of different sequences of amino acids. The order of these amino acids changes the chemical composition of …