Final week! This week I attempted two new recipes. One was an alteration of my mom’s recipe and the other was one I found online. The first one was a[…]
Author: Dakota
Dakota Critical Reflection 5
Essential question: What impact does cooking Cantonese food have on me and my family? Through the process called Senior Project, I have realized that my process works well when I[…]
Dakota Week 5 Update 1
This week I attempted to make steamed rice rolls (failed and trying again in a bit) and cooked with tofu for the first time. Cooking with tofu is kinda hard[…]
Dakota Critical Reflection 4
Essential question: What impact does cooking Cantonese food have on me and my family? The other day, I was looking through photos of the informational walls I had taken at[…]
Dakota Week 4 Update 1
This week I made milk bread for the first time! It was quite the experience as I had never made bread before. It ended up being very rewarding; even though[…]
Dakota Critical Reflection 3
Essential question: What impact does cooking Cantonese food have on me and my family? My essential question has changed. It was originally “how has immigration impacted the recipes of Cantonese[…]
Dakota Critical Reflection 2
Essential question: What impact does cooking Cantonese food have on me and my family? Last week, I cooked dumplings and Chinese turnip cake on my own after watching and assisting[…]
Dakota – Week 3 Update 1
Corona kinda isn’t the wave. Everything has been hard to find, especially for making bread, and the resources I need are a lot more inaccessible. I just bought milk powder[…]
Dakota – Week 2 Update 2
On Thursday, I did so much cooking. I woke up at 7:25 to go in search of yeast at the grocery store near my dad’s and wandered around the store[…]
Dakota – Week 2 Update 1
So far this week I have made turnip cake and Chinese black bean spare ribs with my mom. These foods are very nostalgic, as they were foods I ate often[…]
Dakota Critical Reflection 1
My essential question of what impact does food have on people’s lives is kind of broad but has a variety of possible answers. It’s important to be because my entire[…]
Dakota – Week 1 Update 2
In the past couple of days, I have done a lot of research about hot pot (called da bien lou in Cantonese). I initially thought that there was just one[…]
Dakota – Week 1 Update 1
So far I have done a lot of just research preparing myself for this project. A lot of the preparation was initially done for my original project (cooking with my[…]