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Month: February 2018

Skill: Making chicken chilli on 6th of February 2018

Recipe – https://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/browse-all-recipes/southwestern-beef-chili-corn

In the recipe, beef was used, but when I cooked, I used chicken. The recipe was quite easy to follow but the cooking time took longer than what was in the recipe. I had to add a more tomato paste than what was in the recipe. I usually don’t like spicy food so I didn’t add that much spice but it turned out that the tomato paste that I used already had spice, so the dish was a bit spicier than expected. Before eating it, I put some cheddar over it to make it taste better. Overall, I really like how easy the recipe was and it turned out very well.

 

Skill: Making chicken teriyaki fried rice on 2nd of February 2018

Recipe – https://tasty.co/recipe/chicken-teriyaki-fried-rice

In this recipe, I had to make rice separately and the chicken separately. Before this recipe, I had never really made rice before. I knew how to make it but I had never done it before. I only took 3/4 cup of rice and I thought that it would not be enough but when it was cooked, it turned out to be a lot more than I thought. Making the chicken was not very hard. I cut it up and then marinated it in teriyaki sauce. After an hour, I added the chicken and all the vegetables and waited for it to cook. I waited for some time before adding in the rice. They were all mixed together but I forgot to add soy sauce. I think that it would have tasted a lot better with the soy sauce and the next time I use this recipe, I will have to include soy sauce.

 

 

Popular culture opinions

There was nothing really positive in any of the articles about popular culture. Nearly all of them takes about the negatives of popular culture and how badly it is influencing us. These articles talk about the damaging effects of being involved with popular culture and forget about the positive effects. I do think that popular has a big impact on our generation but they are both positive and negative. The first video was talking about all the positives of popular culture and how it is made out to be something bad by some articles when in reality it can be good. One quote from the talk was, “Why must we be so serious about what divides us?” I think that although popular culture can divide us in some ways, it also brings us together. Popular culture has the power both to divide us and bring us together and I think that it is important we look at what brings us together instead of what divides us. Some of the content on the internet could be dangerous and spread negativity but most popular culture does not revolve around that.

Skill: Making passionfruit custard on 24th of January 2018

Ingredients:

  • custard powder
  •  passionfruit
  • sugar
  • milk

I had never had custard with passionfruit before so I found it very interesting to see them together. The passionfruit we had was very sour so I was a bit concerned that the passionfruit juice would make the custard sour. But fortunately, that didn’t happen and it tasted sweet. I first added 4 spoons of custard power into a small mug and filled it up with milk. It took a while to stir it to make sure that there were no lumps and then put that aside while I poured the remaining of the milk into a pan and put it to boiling. I actually never knew that milk rose that fast when it was boiling but after it was done, I turned off the gas and poured into the mug mixture. I thought that we didn’t put enough powder in and it would taste bland so I decided to add more power in. This created a lot of lumps which thankfully went away after a lot of stirring. Before doing that, I cut the passionfruit in half and scooped out the fruit inside. I then removed the rest of the remains from the fruit. Then, the passionfruit was poured into the custard and mixed. After that, I spooned the custard into the passionfruit remains and used them as a cup. Overall, I really really like the outcome of the recipe and how it looked. I feel like the only big problem was the fact that the cups were not that big so not a lot of mixture could go into it.

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