Poaching is a moist heat cooking method, subcategorized by shallow and submerged poaching. It is often associated with delicately flavored foods that do not require lengthy cooking times to tenderize them, such as eggs, fruit, or fish.
Shallow poaching:
For shallow poaching the food is placed in just enough liquid to come approximately halfway up the sides. [...]

Roasting
Recipes at the end of post

Roasting is one of the oldest methods of cooking meat.  Originally it was done either on a spit or rod, turning slowly over an open fire. The most accepted method today is in the oven.  Usually only the finer cuts of meat are roasted.
Roasting and baking are the processes of surrounding [...]

POTATOES
Potatoes are a starchy vegetable.  The starch molecules don’t begin to soften during cooking until they reach the gelantinization range, which in the potato is about 137 to 150.  At this temperature the cells in the potato beginning to take on water and they swell and then finally soften. There are over 3000 varieties of [...]

This week was all about vegetables. We made some tempura vegetables, steamed broccoli, grilled zucchini and squash. We roasted acorn squash, and made some artichoke bottoms.
On day two of our lab we glazed carrots, they where excellent. We stir-fried summer squash, made some cauliflower gratin, made the famous movie, “Ratatouille”, it was allot better than [...]