Soups

Explain the two soup categories. What types of soups are in each category? What is the difference between a puree soup and cream soup? What is the basis for all for all clear soups?

There are two basic categories of soups. These include clear soups and thick soups. Clear soups include flavored stocks, broths, and consommes. With stock or broth being the basic ingriedent for clear soups there are many ways to create a special broth to your liking. This includes boiling hot water with meats, vegetables, and spices. Unlike clear soups thick soups are more of a cream based product. Different soups you can make in this category includes bisque, chowders, and split pea soup. Pureed soup is a type of thick soup that is thickened by a starch such as a potato. Cream soup is another type of thickened soup that gets its consistency from different dairy products mixed with pureed products. 

         

Citrus Shrimp Stuffed Mushroom

For the recent cooking lab with appetizers I created the citrus shrimp stuffed mushroom. This appetizer included a sauteed portebello mushroom with seasoned rice ( chicken broth, onions, and green pepper) topped with shrimp. Our appetizer is unique because of all the different flavors that were added to it. To improve this dish next time i could add more seasonings into the rice to give it more of a zing. For the shrimp i could of grilled it and added a little bit of lemon zest and cilantro to it.

Ideal Restraunt for Stevens Point

           After researching the different restraunts across the stevens point area I came to one conclusion, we need more variety of fine dining restraunts. Around this town there are plenty of fast food and quick dining services. But who would want to go to a quick dining service for a special night out?!

           To solve this solution I came up with the ideal restraunt that will surely please this town. First the restraunt needs to feature a bar. Living in Wisconsin this can be a big deal with having a fine dining restraunt. The bar will includes various wines and special drinks that will please a variety of people. Secondly the restraunt should be a spacious atmosphere. Reason behind this is going into a restraunt that is super crowded is never pleasent. The person at the other end of the table always has a hard time hearing and its not a fun situation to be in.

            Looking at the small amount of fine dining restraunts we have in stevens point it offers over the top prices and unsual titles that arent well known to people not experienced in the culinary field. To change this the fine dining restraunt will still offer a classy menu but with names that are well known to the public. Also the prices will be economicaly friendly. People want to experience fine dining but dont want to break their wallets having this experience.