Fruit and Vegetables Salads

The quality of fruits and vegetables:
 1. Some of the qualities we looked for in our fruits and vegetable were the firmness of the fruits and veges. We made sure that they weren't too mushy and checked for any signs of rotting. We also checked that they were bright in colour.

2. It's important to cut vegetables evenly so that when it comes to cooking them they all cook evenly. We cook our starchy vegetables first because they take longer to cook.

3. For our couscous salad we used pesto for the dressing. We mixed all the the ingredients together enough so that the pumpkin and feta cheese wouldn't get all mushy together. We put the salad into a deep bowl so that everything was to stay in place instead of putting it in a plate where everything would fall apart. Some additional ingredients we added to our couscous salad were the pine nuts to give our couscous salad that crunch.

For our Ceasar salad we made our own Ceaser sauce to add to our salad. We arranged the salad onto a plate and created layers so that the chicken was able to soak up the flavouring from the egg. Additonal ingredients we added to our salad was the egg for the nutrients and crutons to give your salad that crunchiness.

Our vege baskets were made up of mixed vegetables wrapped in pastry and cooked for about 20 - 30 mins.

The fruit flan that we made consisted of us making our own base and filling. We used different fruits that would work together flavour wise with the filling we made to give it a tropical sort of taste. We also added a melted chocolate to the fruit flan for extra sweetness to our flan.