Problem

Who will make dinner, when it will be, and how it will work around the family of 4 busy schedule. The family needs help to find out what dinner will look like for week days.

Solution

A new recipe – pasta with meatballs

Ingredients for Meatballs (makes 22-23 meatballs): 

• 3 slices of white bread, (crusts removed), diced or torn to pieces 
• 2/3 cup chilly water 

• 1 Lb lean ground beef, (7%-15% fat) 
• 1 Lb Sweet Ground Italian sausage, casings removed 
• 1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese, plus more to serve 
• 4 cloves garlic, minced 
• 1 tsp sea salt 

• 1/2 tsp black pepper 
• 1 large egg 
• 3/4 cup all-purpose flour, to dredge meatballs 
• 3 Tbsp Light olive oil to sauté, or use vegetable oil 

Ingredients for Sauce: 

• 1 medium yellow onion, (1 cup chopped) 
• 4 cloves garlic, minced 
• 56 oz crushed tomatoes, (from 2 – 28 oz cans) 
• 2 bay leaves, optional 
• Salt & pepper, to taste 

• 2 Tbsp basil, finely minced* 

Other Ingredients: 

• 1 Lb spaghetti

Justification 

I think each part of our plan will work well because we have made sure that we were picking who was home first and making sure there was more than enough time to make dinner, and that we gave them a Varity of food during the week.

Monday- Parent A will be cooking, and will be cooking ginger glazed salmon. Dinner will be at 5:30, it makes 4 servings and takes 20 minutes to work.

Tuesday- Parent B is cooking today and is making vegetable pad thai. Dinner will be at 5:30 and makes 6 servings and with the two spare servings it will be the parent lunch. It takes 35 minutes to cook this meal.

Wednesday- Teen 1 is cooking chicken noodle soup, dinner will be at 6:00 and makes 6 servings, the other two the kids will take to school. It takes 45 minutes to cook.

Thursday- Parent A is cooking black bean taco, dinner will be between the times 5:20-5:40. We will be making the whole me which takes 15 minutes.

Friday- Parent A and Teen 2 are cooking tonight, they are making spaghetti and meat balls. Dinner will take around 45 minutes, and they will make half of the meal, they will also have dinner around 5:45.

References 

Spaghetti and Meatballs Recipe (VIDEO)

We copied the recipe from this website  

Collaboration Reflection 

We used our phones to talk outside of school about our project and shared a word document where we all had access to work online for it.  

We sent out shared word document, Edublog, and we also used snap to communicate. We were all familiar with technology and I’ve been using my technology to finish my work in class. 

We distributed tasks based on days of the week for finding what days who will cook, what they will make, and what time. We had 2 people make the chart and we also had 2 people make sure everything was completed. We picked who did each thing by picking who would do each task to the best we can. 

I typed out work, answering questions, making the chart with one other group member, and making sure that everyone in the family cooked a meal, they had a different meal each day, and that the times worked right, I did this with 2 other people in my group.