Author Archives: Haley DeBoer

My favorite unit was the China unit. I really liked the egg roll lab. It was fun to experiment with different plating techniques. It was also cool to make Chinese foods because I’ve eaten a lot of Chinese food, but only ever from restaurants. It was cool to learn how to make them. If IContinue reading “04/07 Distance Learning”

A lot of these recipes require ingredients that we have barely used before. It’s harder to cook with these because we don’t really know how to cook with some of them. I also have not had a lot of these foods before. For example, I have never had spanakopita before. When cooking, I wasn’t sureContinue reading “Greece Blog Post #2”

The grade that I have right now is good. I’ve struggled with my grade before because I missed a lot of class for being sick. Then I couldn’t make up the labs at home. But this year I haven’t missed any labs yet, so my grade is pretty high. Usually missing labs is the hardestContinue reading “Greece Blog Post #1”

The most challenging part of the lab was rolling the sushi. I’ve never made sushi before, so I had to learn how to roll it. It was difficult to keep everything close together so it didn’t spill out of the roll. It was also difficult to cut it because sometimes the ingredients bulged out. Overall,Continue reading “Japan Blog Post #2”

I liked researching one topic and then doing class presentations better. When we did all the topics and shared them, we were basically just hearing the same information over and over again and not really learning anything new. This way, people were able to get more information on one topic by listening to the presentations.Continue reading “Japan Blog Post #1”

The most challenging aspect of the lab was completing everything on time. All 3 people in my group made different things to add to their plate (noodles, sauce, vegetables). We had to make sure our egg rolls were done well and on time. We also had to work together to make sure we all finishedContinue reading “China Blog Post #2”

I decided to take Foods of the World because I have taken all of the other cooking classes and liked them, so I wanted to keep taking them. I also wanted to cook new foods from other countries. By taking this class, I will be able to cook foods that I probably would never makeContinue reading “China Blog Post #1”