1) I planned for my meal to be………. (how did you describe it using the 5 senses when planning it?) I planned it to look appeasing, sound like sizzling, smell tasty, taste appetizing, feel rough

My meal was… (describe it using the five senses), it looked appeasing, sounded like sizzling, smelled amazing, tasted wonderful and felt rough

2) Which qualities are the same? Which are different? What improvements or changes could be made? Improvements or changes that could be made are I could make the cookies less sugary than I did since they were extremely sweet.

3) I believe I showed strength in the following skills: Mixing, whisking, and cutting because: I had to mix the gravy, had to whisk the cookie mixture, and slice the potatoes.

4) Explain the significance of your dish, its connections to your personal and cultural identity. How does this dish reflect who you are? This dish reflects my Russian heritage because the chicken was invented in Moscow and its a meal that my family makes every now and then which makes it special.

• What task did you complete this week?  I have been tasked to help my mom cook.
• Have you been asked to do this task before? No, I have never been asked to do this task before.
• How did it feel to help in this way?  It felt nice to finally help my mom cook instead of standing by and watching.
• What impact did you create doing this job have on your family? It made no impact.
• Have your responsibilities changed since people were asked to stay home due to COVID-19?  If so how?  No, my jobs have not really changed other than I’ve been helping a lot more in the kitchen.
• How did you know if you would be successful in this task? Because I had my mother with me and she has been making this meal for years now.
• Did you face any challenges? If so, how did you overcome them? We faced no challenges.
• Will you continue to do this task moving forward? Why or why not? I possibly might continue doing this just because i like helping others when they need it.

What are the safety concerns with using this tool? Pouring the coffee out of the container as it is extremely hot and will burn you

What is the proper way to use this tool? You pour water into the sides, then put a coffee filter inside, insert coffee beans on the top of the filter and then click start.

If someone did not have this item in their kitchen, is there something else they could use that serves the same purpose? The only other thing that could substitute for the coffee maker is a kettle.

What dish/baked good did you use it to create? Who did you share it with? I didn’t share it because it was for my parents

Did you use a recipe or did you make it up?  I made it up

If you were to make this dish again, what would you change? Nothing

What challenges did you have to overcome? How did you overcome them? There were no challenges

What was your greatest success in this dish (either in the final product, or in the preparation)?  Why? The greatest success was not putting too much water into the sides and making too much coffee for my parents.

What are you most proud of about this experience? Why? I’m most proud of the fact that I can now make coffee whenever I need to in the future

What technique/skill did you choose? Why did you want to learn or improve on this? I chose the cracking an egg cleanly technique, I wanted to improve on it because I always kept messing up when trying to crack an egg and the yoke comes out all scratched from the shell.

o What video/website(s) did you use to learn more about the skill? I watched a YouTube video by real simple like and the channels name it was quite simple really it just takes practice.

o What dish/baked good did you create to practice the skill? I baked Oatmeal Cookies since it was the easiest thing to do at the time as we had all the ingredients we needed for it.

o What advice do you have for someone who wants to learn this skill too? Just practice, it takes time to get good at cracking eggs even if you do it won’t always come out perfect sometimes you’ll mess up but that’s okay.

o What challenges did you have to overcome? How did you overcome them? The challenge I had to overcome was trying to crack the shell without having the yoke slide out and onto the counter, I just used a medium sized bowl instead of the small bowl I was using before.

o What was your greatest success in this dish (either in the final product, or in the preparation)? Why? The final product was a success in the fact that they tasted extremely tasty and I would make them again.

o What are you most proud of about this experience? Why? I’m most proud of cracking the egg perfectly on the 4th try when I was thinking I would get it on the 8th or 10th time.

One of my favorite food labs that we have done is eggs, it was technically a solo lab since we all made our own eggs, I made scrambled. I thought since they were so easy in the lab, I should do them at home. Which is what I did, but it turned out better, I got everything ready and started to make the eggs, now logically thinking I grabbed the oven mitts (since pan is hot) but there were no mitts, which is bad. So, then I touched the hot pan handle and burnt myself. It wasn’t that bad of a burn, but I should’ve checked first that there were oven mitts before I started cooking the eggs