Open Steak Burgers

 In our home economics class, we were making open steak burgers! This was a pretty quick lesson as the only thing that took a long time to prepare was the steak. In the end, the steak was a tiny bit overcooked and it needed more flavour but my group didn't want anything interesting in their burgers so the burger was over plain, but the sauce helped. Even though our dish wasn't the most delicious dish I've ever had it was still fun to make!

INGREDIENTS - 

 steak
1 Tablespoon Oil - optional
Tomatoes - optional
An Onion- optional
1 Leaf of Lettuce - optional
Cheese - optional
Beetroot - optional
Sauce:
BBQ
Tomato
Mayonnaise
- optional

METHOD - 

1. Collect your chosen ingredients.
2. Steak - Cut into thin strips and add into a pan with 1 tablespoon oil.
3. Prep your ingredients to put on your burger.
4. once your steak is done then add your ingredients onto the buns.
5. Enjoy your burgers! 

Rice paper spring rolls

During today's lesson, in our home economics class, we were given a full demonstration on how to make rice paper spring rolls by our teacher Mrs. Rhodes followed by the class trying to replicate the process of making the rolls. This was excitingly fun as it was something me and my classmates had never made before. It was surprisingly not as easy as it sounds as the rice paper was very delicate and would either snap or tear when dunking the paper into the cold water. The whole meal was overall delicious and is a fun snack I would definitely recommend although rice paper was soggy and had no flavour, the vegetables gave a nice crunchy texture to the rolls and the sauce, in my opinion, made the dish as it gave a sweet yet spicy flavour that really went with the rice paper and the vegetables. 

Nutrients/Ingredients:

Vermicelli - Carbs, Copper, Fiber, Zinc, Calories, Calcium, Iron, and Magnesium.

Carrots - potassium, vitamin A, K1, B6.

Capsicum - Vitamin A and C, Dietray Fibre, Vitamin E, B6 . 

Cucumber - Vitamin K, Vitamin B and C, Copper, , Potassium, and Magnesium.

Lettuce -  Vitamin B, Vitamin K, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Potassium, Calcium, and Iron.    

Bean Sprouts - Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Calories, Protein, Carbohydrates, Fiber, Potassium, and Sugar. 

Cooking Method:

1. Place all the ingredients into separate bowls.

2. Half fill a shallow dish with cold water. The dish needs to be big enough to fit the rice paper sheets. 

3. Dip the rice paper sheets into the cold water and lay them out on a chopping board and let them soften.

4. Place your fillings in the centre of the softened sheets.

5. Fold the two sides of the rice paper sheet towards the middle.

6. Roll carefully into a cylinder shape. Repeat for the other sheets.

7. Serve immediately or refrigerate until ready to serve.

Important to remember:

Rice paper sheets are very delicate so be gentle when dipping them in the water.

Use predominantly vegetables and soft herbs as fillings.

Try to use a combination of ingredients that balance flavor, texture, and nutrients.

Mixing + Dissolving

For today's 2 hours of science, we started looking at a new topic of mixing and dissolving! To get a better understanding of this topic we conducted an experiment. During the experiment, some keywords came up like "mixture" which is a substance made by combing either substance together, some examples of mixtures being, Tea + Coffee, Coke, Cake, Sand, Salad, etc. Another keyword that came up was dissolving which is what our experiment was based around. Dissolving is when a substance becomes part of a liquid, lots of things affect the rate that something dissolves for example when the water is hot the water particles move around faster which means that the particles collide more, compared to cold water that doesn't move as much making it take longer for particles to diffuse. But not everything dissolves and there are two special names, Soluble which is a substance that can dissolve in water, and Insoluble which is something that cannot dissolve in water. 

THE EXPERIMENT - 

AIM -  To find out what method makes sugar dissolve in water faster. 

EQUIPMENT - 
- Beaker 
- 100ml cold water 
- 100ml hot water 
- Sugar 
- Spatula 

METHOD - 

1 - Fill the beaker with 50ml of cold water x 2 / 50ml of hot water x 2 ( Do the experiment 4 times ) 

2 -  add one scapula of sugar 

3 - For the first time doing cold and hot water mix the sugar in the beaker

4- Time how long it takes for the sugar to dissolve in both the hot and cold water

5 - Complete the same thing but this time doesn't stir the sugar and see the time difference. 

RESULTS - 

CONCLUSION - 

In the end, the 2nd experiment dissolved the quickest as it had hot water which meant that the water particles moved around quicker due to the kinetic energy and the stirring helped the sugar dissolve quicker. Compared to the 4th experiment where it was cold water and no stirring, which ended up taking 2 minutes to dissolve. 

Masky Mask Mask

 

BASEL MASKS -

These are the masks that we were lucky enough to be able to use during our class. 

What are basel Masks?

Basel Painted a traditional white, the Basel masks are made of light, long-lasting neoprene. Developed as theatrical tools by legendary mask and movement innovator, Jacques Lecoq, Basel, and Larval Masks are excellent for teaching theatrical projection and timing.

COMMADIA MASKS - 

What are Commedia masks? 

Commedia dell'arte masks are one of the most integral aspects of each stock character. Each mask design is paired with a specific character based on its appearance and tradition. Masks were originally all made of leather, but now more commonly made of neoprene.

GREEK MASKS - 

What are Greek Masks? 

The masks were most likely made out of lightweight, organic materials like stiffened linen, leather, wood, or cork, with the wig consisting of human or animal hair. ... Greek mask-maker, Thanos Vovolis, suggests that the mask serves as a resonator for the head, thus enhancing vocal acoustics and altering its quality.

MASQUERADE MASKS - 

What are masquerade masks?

Masquerade masks had many uses including hiding one's identity and using a different color to express one's freedom of speech and voice one's emotions and opinions without judgment. There were two types of base masquerade masks; black masks and white masks.

Making Our own masks! 

It sounds pretty simple but this activity took more time than the performance. I and my group were focusing our masks off of the emotions happy, sad, angry, and scared. My mask was based on happy which I thought was the hardest one to do as I couldn't use the paper template as it already had a blank face carved out, and that wouldn't do so I cut my own out of cardboard and made different eyes and mouth. This was a very good decision as I thought my mask turned out excellent! To finish it all off I added some details like freckles and outlines everything in yellow to make it look happier! 

Creating a performance! 

This in my opinion was the best part! and my group gathered backstage and decided on an uplifting song and what better music than carnival music! After we all agreed on a song (it took a lot longer than it should have) we choose our setting but in the end, it didn't really show the setting but that didn't matter because it was more focused on our performance and how we held our bodies to show the emotions that we were trying to present. Over I think my group did well but could have been better if we had more time, so it was a really really short performance but it was still really really fun! 

9/11

 In today's lesson in social studies we were working on our individual tasks, I did mine on 9/11 and created a timeline of the chaotic events that occurred on that tragic day.  This was very interesting to research as i had never gone into depth about what happened and how the world responded to the event. Here is my timeline!

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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