Not many people cook in America anymore. A statistic shows that people spend less than 30 minutes a day cooking. This is why the class was given the assignment of cooking a dish of their own, with a responsible adult of course.
Instead of making something simple I make often, such as eggs or ramen noodles, I wanted to make something from scratch that I have never made before: spaghetti. I've grown fond of spaghetti over the years for a few reasons: I love the flavorful sauce as well as the perfectly crafted noodles. Something that is so simple; sauce and noodles, can taste so good. The second reason is because it was an acquired taste for me. When I was little, I used to gag when eating spaghetti because it reminded me of worms because of the color and texture. So naturally, I was excited to get to work on the noodles. I started off by getting 2 large pots out. One was for noodles and one was the sauce pot. I filled up the bigger pot with water and put it on the stove. While I waited for that water to boil, I put olive oil into the sauce pot and turned on the flame. Into that pot I added minced garlic. After 15 seconds, I added tomatoes and tomato paste and mixed. Then, I put in all of the other ingredients including salt, pepper, sugar, etc. By the time I added the ingredients, the water came to a boil and I could add the spaghetti noodles. After 13 minutes, the pasta had finished cooking. A trick my responsible adult taught me was to use a ladle and put the water from the spaghetti into the sauce to give it texture. Finally, my hard work had paid off and I could finally serve the spaghetti with the sauce on top of it. |
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Once we made the dish, we wrote down the recipe for it including the ingredients, and a description of it and why we cooked it, as well as the history of the dish. For the Spanish portion of this assignment, I Google translated the ingredients and then got into groups with a Spanish speaker to check it over and see if it was grammatically correct.