My first home economics class

 Cooking, sowing, and catering for a living environment and family are important life skills. That is why I chose home economics as one of my three optional subjects in secondary school. 

Due to Covid-19, my home ec class couldn't actually go to the home ec kitchen for a while, so we just did theory work, (work from the textbook 📚 ). However, today ( November 16th 2020 ), we finally were able to go into the kitchen!!. I had only been there twice before, once before Covid hit when my 5th class got to attend an 'open night'. And secondly, on the previous Thursday when the teacher was showing us around and explaining the diffrent contents of the room. 

Today, we made apple crumble. It was an easy recipe and I am honoured that it was my first recipe in the home economics room!. 

My partners, ( I can't use their names for privacy reasons, so I will call them ' Lucy ' and ' Mia ' ), were very kind and showed lots of respect, even though I messed up a few times!!!. 

Firstly, we took out our materials, ( e.g sieve, basin, cooling tray. E.t.c ). Then we got apron's. Finally, it was time to get started.

Lucy and I chopped the apples into quarters, then into tiny pieces, and peeled the skins of them with knives, ( don't worry we were supervised! ). Mia got the flour and butter and kneed the dough. Later, when she was complete she helped me and Lucy with the four apples. 

Eventually, we put the porridge into each of our one-use trays, then the berries, then the apples, then some sugar, then the dough, then sugar sprinkled on top. The other girls decided not to, but I wanted to add some cinnamon. I added a little too much, but it tasted fine!.

The preheated oven greeted the apple crumble and golden glory arrived twenty minutes later, after our clean up. We took them in our canvas bags, had one other class, went home and enjoyed. I shared with some of my family members. 

Overall, I loved the expirence and I can't want to cook in the class again.

Time to take action

I feel as though it's a whole new era. New albums are out, I'm into studying...but the pandemic. Before the halloween mid term in Ireland, there was around one thousand cases a DAY. Now we get around 500-700 a day, witch is better, however there's still room for improvement. 

The first month of school at my secondary school anyway, was moving swiftly Covid wise. We all understood the importance of facemasks, hand sanatizing, hand washing, social distancing, e.t.c.

However, currently, during the second term my class has begun to slip. 

The teachers kept constantly reminding us about keeping our 1 metere distance at break time and inside, and our two metere distance if eating.

Covid is crazy, it started LAST SEPTEMBER and is still lurking around in the shadows currently during NOVEMBER 2020!. That's wild. Whilst we wait for a vaccine, we can only participate in what will prevent Covid-19 from entering our homes. 

At school today I will hand sanatize frequently, wear my facemask and social distance. 

 

 

 

Kayla Power

Chicken 'n' broccoli bake

Today for dinner my mother and I cooked up a delicious chicken and broccoli bake with a Side of potato slices 😋. 

My mother had seen an online recipe and decided to try it out. I assisted her. You can find the recipe on the ' Irish examiner ' website. 

It was a little chaotic as we did not have some ingredients, so we needed to purchase them, however it would all turn out to be worth it in the end!.

My mom cooked the chicken and broccoli and I stirred the mushrooms. The recipe was now complete and ready to be heated up in the oven!!. 

However, my mother was feeling crafty. She decided that, even though it was not included in the actual recipe, that she wanted to cook up some potato slices as an extra little treat!!. 

To bake these potato slices you need to firstly peel the potatoes, then clean them with fertalized water, thirdly it's required to chop them into slices, and then cook!. 

 This 👆, was our conducted recipe before being cooked. 

👆 This was our potato slices during  the process of being cooked.

And  tada!

Life in a pandemic

The big lockdown is over. Those were the worst six months of my life. But the pandemic lingers. Cases plummeted down, escalating immensely, during the period of Halloween mid term in Ireland. However tommorw is Monday morning and the little decrease will unfortunately increase. Today will be ereyesterday and calculated cases will be immensely increased. Face masks, hand sanitizer, and social distance are key words. We all must wear face masks at my secondary school. Additionally we must take two metres distance from every other individual on the yard if we sadly plead to take them off. 

Loggin' off xx