Soup assignment

Here I made Wonton soup using what I had in my freezer, fridge and pantry. Sight: i can see green and yellowish colours in my soup. Smell: My wonton soup has a very nice onion and ginger smell but its not too overpowering. Taste: very good, the wontons mixed with the chicken-onion-ginger broth. Touch: the […]

Cooking at Home

Here I made pesto pasta using what I already had in my kitchen. You can see 3 different colours, red, green and tan-ish yellow. The pasta had a very nice garlic and spinach-y smell, and also tasted garlic-y with bursts of flavour from the tomatoes. The texture of the pasta noodles was nice and wasn’t […]

Buddha Bowl

My successes were placing and presenting my vegetables in the bowl the way I wanted to, as well as slicing my avocado and cucumber nicely. A challenge i encountered was that I realized how small my bowl was and that I wouldn’t be able to fit all my veggies. However, I overcame it by overlapping […]

Cooking at Home Option 4

The skill I chose was to improve my cutting skills with a kitchen knife, I wanted to improve on my cutting skills because its very important in cooking, to know how to properly hold a knife and cut. I used Youtube and watched a video on basic knife skills to help me improve. I made […]

Cooking at home option 2

Here i made fried rice, using leftover old rice i had in the fridge. It looked very messy and a bit unappealing but tasted very nice and flavourful. While I was cooking, I added in soysauce and fishsauce which gave off a nice salty fishy smell, I could also hear the pan sizzle as i […]

Working as a team

This week I was able to complete the following tasks: the dishes, unloading the dishwasher, clean the kitchen, help cook and prepare breakfast and dinner, mop, and vacuum. It felt kind of normal cause i always help out and clean, but also nice because my mom was happy. My impact on my family is big […]

Blueberry pancakes

Here I made blueberry pancakes using pancake mix I found in my pantry and frozen blueberries that I had in my freezer. While i was cooking my pancakes, they made a quiet sizzling sound and almost had a blue-ish green-ish colour which came from the blueberries. The smell was pleasant and sweet with a hint […]

Safety and Sanitation

In this lab, we made pancakes using the stove and oven. It went pretty well, some successes were that we were able to make many pancakes and they tasted pretty good. A challenge my partner and I faced was transferring the pancakes onto the baking sheet that was in the oven. It was challenging because […]

Communication

This was the muffin lab, it went really well. The successes were that the muffins looked really good, and tasted surprisingly pretty good as well. There weren’t any challenges that we faced, the lab went pretty smooth. Its important to have good communication with your partners because they’re the people who you work with and […]

Most Memorable Food Experience

What is your most memorable food experience? My most memorable food experience was when I had a meal in Thai Nguyen, Vietnam. The setting was so pretty, my family and i were in the middle of no where and found this restaurant that was built over the water which had such a pretty view out […]