Pita-Pocket

 Hello fellow readers and welcome back today's, blog post is about what we did in cooking class this week. So for Home Economics, we made Pitta Bread's but first, we had to do our hygienic routine which is something we do in all of our cooking lessons. We also had to work in groups there were two other people in my group sadly we only got one photo and that was the end result but I do have the recipe for it. In the Pita-Pockets my group had letters, ham, onion, tomato, cheese. To be able o put everything in we had to cut it open. Some of the nutrients are in the ham/chicken which would be the fats, the lettuce would go into vitamins along with the cucumber, and tomato, red onion. The cheese would go into the protein and the carrot would be going the minerals and carbohydrates, and the pita pockets themselves contain water along with the lettuce.

Pita Pockets

Ingredients:

• 1 Pita Bread per person 

• Lettuce - shredded or torn

• Cheese - grated

• Tomato - sliced or diced

• Carrot - grated 

• Cucumber - sliced

• Red Onion - rings or finely chopped

• Other vegetables: Celery, Capsicum, tinned Beetroot, etc

• Sauces – Choice of Tomato, BBQ, Mayo, Hummus, Sweet Chilli

• Ham or Cooked Chicken Breast 

Method:

1. Prepare the vegetables and meat as required

2. Place pita bread in the microwave for 20 seconds (optional)

3. Cut open the pita bread along the crease to make an opening

4. Fill pita pockets with required fillings and sauces

5. Serve

The Design Process- Cinnamon Crinkles

 Hello fellow readers and welcome back to today's blog post. It is about what we have been doing in Home Economics for the past week.

In Home Economics we have been doing something called the design process. For this, we had to find a stakeholder. Mine was for the principal we also had to do a shopping list, time management, costings, and a recipe. The purposes of the stakeholder were so once we had made the food they would be able to test the food we had made and then give us feedback on how we did.

In my group, we were making Cinnamon Crinkles the original recipe made 36 which was too many so we had to halve it so that it made 18.

Here is the original recipe this photo is from Margaret Fulton’s Baking Classics found on Pg32

Ingredients

• 62.5g butter
• 82.5g caster sugar
• 1 egg
• 150g of self-raising flour 
• 1 tbsp ground cinnamon
• Baking paper  

Steps

1.Preheat the oven to 180c

2.Using a wooden spoon, cream the butter until soft in a larger bowl  

3.Beat in sugar until light and fluffy.

4.Beat in the egg thoroughly 

5.Sift the flour into a medium bowl  and then add to the creamed mixture

6. Make sure flour is mixed in well

7.Roll the mixture into small golf ball sizes balls using your hands 

8.Mix extra cinnamon and sugar together

9.Roll the small balls in the cinnamon and sugar mixture 

10. Then place on  baking trays lined with baking paper

11. Flatten the balls slightly with a fork 

12.bake them for 15 minutes

13. Let them sit on the baking tray for 5 minutes 

14. Then use a spatula to put them on the cooling rack 

                        Makes 18

Kia ora Felicity

Thanks for sending us the samples of your cinnamon crinkles. Mr. Goodfellow and I tasted them.

 

Lovely. The amount of cinnamon was just right for our taste, not too sweet, and I enjoyed the soft texture, they almost melted in the mouth. They were still slightly warm, which I thought added to the flavor. I wondered what they might be like cold.. probably just as delicious.

 

Keep up the good work.

Kia tau te mauri

 

Felicity

I kept a piece of the biscuit to try cold.. it had a lovely light crunch and a great 'crumb' texture in the mouth... Tūmeke!!