Culinary Arts :D

            So My major right now is Culinary Arts, I don't know if you guys are  familiar with the show Chopped, but lately my teacher has been giving us "black boxes." These black boxes contain mysterious items and in about an hour we have to prepare a plate using all of the items in the Black Box. Today we had the following ingredients in my groups Black Box; Spinach, Red Bell Peppers, Yellow Bell Peppers, Scallions, Celery, Tomatoes, Cauliflower, diced onions, garlic, Chicken Breasts with the skin on, and we had to choose between three starches. (Potatoes, Rice, or Pasta)
           What we did was dice both peppers and the tomatoes. We cut the celery in a Half Moon cut and the scallions we just did a Rondelle cut. We then tossed them in with the spinach and we made a salad.We marinated the chicken in lemon juice, freshly squeezed Orange Juice, we added a bit of garlic and onions to add a bit of flavor to the chicken. After we let it sit for a couple of minutes we grilled the chicken for about 5 minutes on each side or until it wasn't pink. We chose to use rice as our starch and we made white rice. We added a bit of chicken stock so it could add more flavor to it. At last we only had the cauliflower and scallions left to incorporate into the dish. We decided to blanch and add mozzarella cheese to the cauliflower, we decided to use the scallions as a garnish for the chicken. Something didn't feel right about the salad so we made a quick dressing and added that to the salad, which at the end helped improve the plate. Below are 2 pictures it took of our final product.