A HAZY SHADE OF WINTER
Time, time, time. See what's become of me? (I hope someone gets that, if not, look up the above title. The Bangles version, not the 1969 recording.)
First semester has, yet again, come and gone; and, yet again, the month of January has further opened my eyes to the passage of time and the changes it brings. This January in particular has been the catalyst of many-a-changes in my life, and the lives of all of the students here at High Tech High. There's a new President in office, my hair's about an inch and a half longer than it was during first semester... Oh, and all the students here at the good ol' H-T-of-H have been placed into new classes. I happened to fall onto the same Math and Spanish teachers, (Good old Nick Chambers and Sofia Tannenhaus.) though I have a new Humanities teacher, Matthew Patrick. (affectionately nicknamed MattPat *no relation to GameTheory*)
This semester's project is called, Comida con Causa, or Food with Cause. Students will explore the tasty side of Latin American culture and the language associated with it. In addition to developing language skills, students will also develop cooking skills. Throughout the duration of the semester students will learning how to make different Latin American foods, and to my understanding, eventually create and sell a product of our own to be sold at a farmers market or the like.
To launch the project, students were posed with a cooking challenge. Before lunch, we were to devise a dish for four. Easy enough. However, there were two caveats.
I partnered with three friends, and we fixed to make a veggie stir-fry dish. (Not exactly Latin American, but it fit the criteria for the challenge!)
We set right away to making the following ingredients list:
After that was settled, we ventured forth onto a local grocery store to acquire our ingredients. We accidentally bought a SUPER-DUPER-ULTRA-MEGA ORGANIC tomato that killed half our budget. Luckily, we could still afford to get the rest of our ingredients, save for the Gai Lan which we substituted for Kale (No place sold the stuff!) and the carrots which we just straight up couldn't afford. Only through the merciful donation of another group were we allowed a single carrot. Good enough.
We returned to school and began duly prepping the ingredients. While one of our folks, Nate, was chopping all of our stuff up, I prepared a special sauce out of stuff that we found in our staff kitchen. (Thanks guys!) The sauce was comprised of:
We threw everything into a massive pan, and the following picture was the eventual result.
First semester has, yet again, come and gone; and, yet again, the month of January has further opened my eyes to the passage of time and the changes it brings. This January in particular has been the catalyst of many-a-changes in my life, and the lives of all of the students here at High Tech High. There's a new President in office, my hair's about an inch and a half longer than it was during first semester... Oh, and all the students here at the good ol' H-T-of-H have been placed into new classes. I happened to fall onto the same Math and Spanish teachers, (Good old Nick Chambers and Sofia Tannenhaus.) though I have a new Humanities teacher, Matthew Patrick. (affectionately nicknamed MattPat *no relation to GameTheory*)
This semester's project is called, Comida con Causa, or Food with Cause. Students will explore the tasty side of Latin American culture and the language associated with it. In addition to developing language skills, students will also develop cooking skills. Throughout the duration of the semester students will learning how to make different Latin American foods, and to my understanding, eventually create and sell a product of our own to be sold at a farmers market or the like.
To launch the project, students were posed with a cooking challenge. Before lunch, we were to devise a dish for four. Easy enough. However, there were two caveats.
- The dish had to contain at least two fresh ingredients (EZ PZ)
- The total price of ingredients including tax could be no more than $5
I partnered with three friends, and we fixed to make a veggie stir-fry dish. (Not exactly Latin American, but it fit the criteria for the challenge!)
We set right away to making the following ingredients list:
- Chinese Broccoli (Gai Lan)
- Bok Choy (x1)
- Chives
- Tomato (x1)
- Carrot(s)
After that was settled, we ventured forth onto a local grocery store to acquire our ingredients. We accidentally bought a SUPER-DUPER-ULTRA-MEGA ORGANIC tomato that killed half our budget. Luckily, we could still afford to get the rest of our ingredients, save for the Gai Lan which we substituted for Kale (No place sold the stuff!) and the carrots which we just straight up couldn't afford. Only through the merciful donation of another group were we allowed a single carrot. Good enough.
We returned to school and began duly prepping the ingredients. While one of our folks, Nate, was chopping all of our stuff up, I prepared a special sauce out of stuff that we found in our staff kitchen. (Thanks guys!) The sauce was comprised of:
- Fish Sauce
- Sesame Seed Oil
- Soy Sauce
- Onion Powder
We threw everything into a massive pan, and the following picture was the eventual result.
Not a bad meal for just five bucks. Healthy eats aren't all that expensive after all. (Except for that damned tomato.)