Blog #7 Italian Food

One of my favorite type of Italian foods are pasta. As a child, my favorite pasta dish was Chicken Alfredo Fettucine, but that was until I discovered the cheese tortellini noodles. There are different ways to serve the tortellini noodles. One way that I enjoyed them was last night when I went to Rigatoni's. My mom treated me out to dinner and I ordered the Spinach and Cheese Tortellini. This dish was super delicious and fantastic.

When it comes to pasta, there are different sauces and types of noodles that a person can prepare a dish with. There are the long, thin noodles that are used when you cook Spaghetti and there are those curved noodles that you use when you cook Macaroni and Cheese. With the noodles, there are also a variety of sauces that a person can use. Some of those sauces might be alfredo, the red marinara sauce, or any other sauce that you can imagine. It is also possible to eat any type of garlic bread with the noodles because it makes it a more perfect dish. 

Blog #6 Burritos

Over the weekend, I had Chipotle Mexican grill. This was my first time ever that I had this, but I thought it was worth it. It was really yummy and delicious. They served tacos, burritos, and etc. and they also had different kinds of meat or veggies selection. At the restaurant, I ordered a carnitas burrito. I thought that it was really cool that they made the food in front of you because it allowed you to choose whatever it is that you wanted to put in it.

There are many ways to prepare burritos. As far as I know, some places but different ingredients in their burritos. There are also some places that sells theirs much larger than others. I guess when it comes to making a burrito, it comes with a person’s own creativity and the way that they want to prepare it. Personally, some of the places that I like to buy my burritos are at Pepe’s and at Mexican trucks. 

Blog #5 Blonde Brownies

A type of dessert that I really like making are blonde brownies. There's a lot of steps to prepare them, but they taste really delicious and worth the wait. These aren't the regular brownies that everyone usually talks about. They don't have that same chocolatey taste as most brownies do. This dessert is in between a cookie and a brownie. It is almost like having a cookie made in a brownie form. 


One recipe that I found for blonde brownies are at this website http://allrecipes.com//Recipe/toll-house-blonde-brownies/Detail.aspx. I encourage people to try this because it tastes and smells so good when it's done. This shouldn't take long to prepare. While baking these a couple times, I found that making these brownies with nuts is really good also. They helps to give that contrast between that strong chocolate taste and having something else to balance it out also. 

Rice in Different Cultures

In all cultures, we all use the same type of ingredients, but for different ways that is needed to prepare the meal. For example, we all use meat, such as pork and beef, in order to prepare a certain meal, but we all do not prepare and cook the meat exactly the same. It is interesting to see the uses of many of the ingredients that we all may be accustomed to in other ways. Plus, it never hurts to try new things and to go experiment with it. In particular, we are all use to eating rice.

For most cultures, there is rice involved in cooking. Rice is something that is easy to make and is also prepared in many different ways. In Japanese culture, rice can be made to eat with dishes, but it can also be prepared in the dish, such as sushi. Another way to eat rice is with dishes that involve meat, which is one way to eat rice in Filipino culture. One example is eating rice with adobo, which is a dish that has meat marinated in ingredients, like vinegar, soy sauce, and other things. Another way to eat rice is to cook it fried. We often see this in Chinese food in which they offer rice cooked with meat and vegetables. As you can see there are many ways to eat and prepare rice, which is a good way to go out and experience different cultures. 

Dishes in Other Cultures

Menudo in Mexican Culture

Menudo in Filipino Culture

In many different cultures, there might be a common name that all cultures may share. For example, in food, menudo is a kind of dish that is shared with the Mexican and Filipino culture, but they tend to mean different things. Other times, there might be a common term that might mean the same for all cultures. For example, there is the word coche, which refers to a car in both the Mexican and Filipino, or Tagalog, languages. In my first example, the dish menudo has a difference in both Spanish and Filipino cultures. I learned that in Spanish, the word menudo refers to the meat that is in the soup for the menudo. In Filipino culture, menudo is not a type of soup at all, but it is a dish that consists of meat. It has vegetables in it, like potatoes or tomatoes, and it is made in this sauce that is kind of like a tomato based sauce. It is usually served over rice. 

Although different words that might be used in both cultures can mean different things, food is the same. It is also something that can taste delicious depending on what you ilke or the feel of your taste buds. In some cultures, it is often common to eat everything of the animal. In America, we usually do not see that or when people actually do refer to it, we often think that it is nasty. In my opinion, it is good to go out and explore the different kinds of dishes there are in each culture. You might be able to learn something about yourself and become more open-minded about different ideas. 

Cookies

In chemistry, we were given a project about having a cookie bake-off, which gave me the idea that I should write about cookies. There are many ways to make cookies. One way, which is my favorite, is to make them by scratch. Others ways would be to get packaged cookie dough that comes from stores or just simply buying one of those cookie dough mixes and adding the rest of the ingredients that are needed. One tip that I learned from baking cookies were that the earlier you take it out, the softer it will be. It may be hard to tell when it is a good time to take the cookies out, but always remember that the cookies will harden when they get a chance to cool off.


Cookies are everywhere and they are often the easiest thing to make. You can always find them. One of the greatest things about making it from scratch is being to save the cookie dough in the freezer for future use when you want to use them. It also lets you bake them to the size that you feel is necessary, whether you want them big or small. The hardest part about making cookies would probably be putting them on the cooking sheet and preparing them for the oven because the often is a really messy job. Here is one link that gives you a start to making the perfect cookies: http://www.chocolate-chip-cookie-recipe.com/

Banana bread

Banana Bread
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On Sunday, my mom asked me if I wanted to make something to eat. I thought about it and at first I wasn't really in the mood. Although after awhile, i decided why not just because I didn't want to finish doing my homework. I wanted to try out this recipe for making banana bread. It called for ingredients like banana, flour, sugar, vanilla, butter, nuts, baking soda, eggs, baking powder, and a few other things. I had to put all the ingredients together and it worked out really well. One of the main keys that I found out about making banana bread were that the bananas had to be just overly in order to taste the banana and to make it really sweet.  

Banana bread is a type of food that really takes a long time to cook. It is one of the recipes that are easiest to prepare, but it is also very tempting to wait for it to be done. Just imagine the really delicious aroma that surrounds you, while the banana bread is taking one full long hour to cook. In my opinion, it really is not difficult to prepare, but it often comes with being able to determine whether or not your bananas are ripe enough or not. There are also many different ways to make this bread, which I find very convenient. One way is to not add nuts in it and another way is it add some chocolate chips for that really sweet, chocolate taste. One recipe that I found was this, which I found at this website: click here.  

3 med. ripe bananas
1 c. sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 c. flour
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
1/4 c. oil
1/2 c. walnuts (optional)

Mash bananas. Stir in remaining ingredients. Pour into greased bread pan. Bake about 1 hour at 350 degrees.

Introduction to my Blog:

Cooking is something that I would say I'm passionate about. It's a way of being able to express who you are and lets you show your creativity and personality by what you experience. For some, cooking is a way that makes people feel comfortable because they might like how it makes them feel. For others, it's a boring job and they would rather do something else than to cook. It's essential because eating is what keeps us alive. It's something that we need in order to stay alive and to remain healthy. We also get our nutrition from it. Personally, food is really good and like some people would say, " it's yummy in my tummy".