Making Mini Apple Sauce Muffins!

For this practical lesson we were doing the usual but with a twist! We were going to make apple sauce muffins but each kitchen had a different substitute ingredient for example my group had soy milk instead of regular milk and had canola oil instead of butter. After successfully making our mini muffins we rotated around the kitchens and tasted all the mini muffins. Because this took longer than expected to make and we still needed to taste the muffins we had to sadly take out the muffins early so they were pretty much all under cooked. Next time I would leave them in for longer and add more cinnamon as flavour was serious lacking in the muffins.

Group 1 : Original Muffins 

Group 2 : Butter & Wholemeal flour

Group 3 : Canola & Wholemeal flour

Group 4 : Butter & Soy 

My group : Soy & Canola 

Ingredients:
1 c Apple sauce
2 T Butter, melted & slightly cooled, or canola, a neutral oil
1 Egg, lightly beaten
1/2 c milk or soy milk
1 t vanilla essence
1 c wholemeal flour or white flour
1/2 c rolled oats
1/4 c sugar
1 t baking powder
1/2 t baking soda
1 t cinnamon

Cooking Method:
1. Preheat oven to 180°C and grease mini muffin tins or line with paper cases.

2. In a small bowl, use a fork to whisk together the apple sauce, melted butter, milk, egg and vanilla (liquid ingredients)

3. Add liquid ingredients to the flour, oats, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and sugar - gently fold together.

4. Fill the muffin tins / paper cases (mini ones) to 3/4 full.

5. Bake about 10 minutes or until cooked.

6. Remove from oven. Let cool for 2 minutes before removing from muffin tins.

Here are some photos of the cooking process and the finished result:

Hope you enjoy.

Spag bol - Cooking

In today's practical cooking class, we were making spaghetti bolognese. While making this my group worked excellently and we got to eat our meal and get out of class on time! The end result was delicious but I think that the pasta could have been cooked for longer as it was still kinda hard when we bit into it, otherwise it was delicious and we had the right amount of sauces to complement the seasoning on the meat.

Ingredients:

- Olive Oil
- Onion
- Garlic
- Carrots
- Celery
- Mince
- Basil
- Can of tomatoes
- Tomato puree
- Spaghetti Sticks

Cooking Method:

1. Heat the oil in a large pot and add the onion and garlic.
2. Cook for 2-3 minutes, stir frequently until onion is soft.
3. Stir in carrots a celery and cook for another minute. 
4. Add mince, stirring until the beef has lost its pink colour.
5. Add basil, tomatoes and tomato puree.
6. Bring mixture to boil then reduce the heat to a gentle simmer and cover for 10-15 minutes.
7. Boil water and then add spaghetti sticks to cook for 10-12 minutes.
8. Drain spaghetti and toss with a little olive oil to avoid sticking.
9. Then arrange your plates dividing the mixture up evenly.
10. Serve and enjoy

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Expansion and contraction

Today in chemistry class we were looking at four different actions to do with matter, Expansion, contraction, Convection, and conduction, We then had to choose one of them and create an animation explaining what the action is. I partnered up with my mate and we did animation on expansion and contraction. 

Making My Own Melodrama Character!

 Introducing..... Priscilla the Poor!!! 

Full name- Pricilla Eveningtide 

Parents - Mother (Deceased) Maria Eveningtide  Father, Harold Eveningtide 

Siblings - older sister, Babra Eveningtide 

Age - 15

Gender- Female 

Backstory - 

She and her sister grew up alone as their father was a useless drunk and never came home. They were only 7 and 5 and they were on the streets fending for each other. As bad is it was it got worse for Priscilla when their father came home after 2years of the kids not seeing them, he had run out of money and now that Priscilla's older sister Babra Eveningtide had turned 13 he sold her, took the money, and ran. Priscilla was left on her own. It's said that the two sisters grew distant for awhile the only thing keeping them together was their hate for the world. After Priscilla had spent her whole life growing up with her older, she became her role model. And it was no surprise that when their older sister turned evil, Pricilla followed in her footsteps. 

Occupation - 

Pricilla is undercover as a maid working for the hero of the story but is a spy for the villain who is her older sister (But its a secret so no one knows that they are siblings)

Skills - 

She is very intelligent, good under pressure, calm and collected, And an AMAZING liar. She also has a big influence on the hero as the hero doesn't know what he's doing. 

Weaknesses - 

She has a growing fear of her father, specifically her father trying to sell her.

Best friend - 

Scarlet Evergreen, Also works for the villain but is a bit thick and is usually drinking. 

Interests - Making the villain (her older sister) proud, Making the world pay for the way they treated her and her sister when she was young. 

The Valdivia Earthquake!

During today's chaos lesson we were looking at tsunamis and were trying to get the movie "The impossible" to work but after failing multiple times we retreated back to the independent tasks matrix. I and my partner decided to work on the Earthquake section. For the section, we choose one of the biggest earthquakes recorded, the Valdivia earthquake, and made a poster on the destruction of the earthquake. Here is my poster.

Chicken Stir fry

Today's practical lesson we were making chicken stir-fry. My team worked really well for this practical and we got the dish made surprisingly quickly. The end result was delicious and it had a very strong salty flavor. Altogether it was a really fun practical and next time I would go sparingly on the sauces. 

CHICKEN STIR FRY -

2 pieces of chicken
2 tablespoons of soy sauce
2 tablespoons of honey
2 tablespoons sesame sauce
Any vegetable
2-minute noodles


Cut the chicken into bite-sized pieces.
Saute the onions.
Add the chicken and cook until lightly browned
Add the vegetables and sauce.
cook for 5-6 minutes or until vegetables is cooked.

Potato Fritters!

For this weeks practical lesson we made potato fritters! During this lesson i was put in a different team so i wasn't used to working with the team i was in, and there wasn't much communication between our leader and the rest of the team. In the end we got the meal finished but i had to leave early so i didn't get to taste what we had cooked, but from what i heard from my team it was delicious even though the eggs ended up in a more scrambled state. Overall this wasn't my favourite practical lesson but it was still a lot of fun.