My Choice #10

I stole Kristin's idea, my blog is based on fun facts about food since it was somewhat hard to find fun facts about specific dessert foods. I tried to find as many dessert related foods but some are food facts. Hopefully my blog will be insightful and interesting and you will leave my page learning something!

• Whenever a recipe for cake or muffins calls for oil, applesauce can be substituted.


• The world record for eating cheesecake is 11 pounds eaten in nine minutes – by Sonya Thomas, who weighs 105 pounds.


• The smaller the size of a berry, the sweeter its taste.


• Each American eats an average of 51 pounds of chocolate per year.


• World wide, consumers spend more than $7 billion a year on chocolate.


• Americans eat 20.7 pounds of candy per person annually.


• The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.


• Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate


• To burn off one plain M&M candy, you need to walk the full length of a football field.
  

It is crazy to go on a website and find random facts about things you could never imagine! I think it is a good connection for anyone to research facts about their project to learn new things and possible give people insight that will make them think. As shown today in class, everyone was so overwhelmed about what they were hearing or reading about things that they see or do on a daily basis. I recommend everyone to google random facts about their senior project and then write a blog about it and everyone will be shocked as to what they read. Overall, I learned a lot today by researching facts about food and desserts.

Project Connection#10

Over the past few weeks, I have been working with my mentor, Ms. Porter to help with the senior citizens event for this upcoming May. This year it is a showcase of performances and a dessert extravaganza based on an old school, fifties theme. Since she is my mentor and knows everything about my project, she decided to give me the rains to help with all the desserts. So every fifth period, I have fashion two and instead of working on a sewing project, I have been delegated to work with whatever food and desserts are left over and finish cutting or baking whatever it may be, cookies, bars, etc. This gives me the role of being in charge and making my own decisions because Ms. Porter is always too busy to answer everything, I make the choices myself. Overall, it has been going good and it gives me a good experience to be my own chef and do my own thing. The event is just around the corner and things are going to get hectic but I am looking forward to being a part of it and helping out as much as I can. I have done this event type thing for the past few years and loved every minute of it; so I expect nothing less this year.

Field Trip #10

Unfortunately, I was unable to see my sponsor last week for more than one reason. I was in the leadership conference Thursday all day and tried to leave as soon as possible to get to my sponsor. When I finally left, I gave her a call to see what was going on and explained why I would of been late and such and she said to not worry about coming. She also stated that she was very busy and did not know what she wanted me to do. I never miss my sponsor, ever until this time. Therefore, since I was not there to work and learn; I read my Taste of Home magazine and learned a few new things. It is a magazine based on food and articles about new food trends and delicious recipes. It was insightful since I was unable to see Krista but I tried to make the best out of my time alone. I will be going to visit her this week on Thursday and I am hoping she will have time to sit down with me and figure out my final project and what I want to do and my overall vision. So stay tuned to this weeks field trip blog. =)

Project Connection #9

I think my senior project is finally starting to pay off! I went to a baby's first birthday party this weekend and of course there was food there. After food, we all know comes cake and desserts; the best part of the whole party and the most fattening! They had a beautiful cake made by Shop Rite, it was chocolate chip cake with pink and brown icing because that was the color scheme of the party, it was very delicious. Along with the cake came brownies, cookies, and fresh fruit such as grapes, cantaloupe, pineapple, and strawberries. Here is where my project starts to pay off and people start to notice that I actually know what I am talking about.
The brownies were sitting out on a tray at the table where I was eating. I decided to grab one because it looked very moist and thick and yummy. As I was eating the brownie, I could tell that they were in the oven or the pan they were cooked in for too long. They did not look burnt or taste that bad but from eating so many kinds of brownies and pastries, I could tell that it had a funny, burnt taste to it. Therefore, I mentioned it to a few other people and they asked how I could tell and then they ate one and understood. It made me feel good to know that people actually trust what I say and they could see what I was talking about.

My Choice #9

Favorite Quote :)

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

- Walt Disney

As you can see, I am still in the Disney mood from senior trip therefore; I decided to pick a nice Disney quote to blog about. I really like this quote because it is self explanatory and to the point. Anyone can dream but it takes a real person to dream of something and go through with it. Everyone dreams, some of which are unrealistic and others that can really come true if one tries. I believe that a person can do whatever they want if they have the courage and believe in their self. Walt Disney is the man of dreams and imagination that is why we have Disney World; it is a place full of dreams to get away to and escape from reality. I truly believe everyone should use this quote or live by it because it is very useful and will help in a persons life. Another famous saying that goes hand in hand with this is; if you can dream it - you can live it!

Field Trip #9

Yesterday I took my adventure again to the bakery and had another good visit. They were rather busy with personal orders and we also had a lot of customers come in and buy tons of goodies. I did not do much yesterday but I did watch and observe a lot of new things. I watched one of the employees make hand sculptures of little animals for a baby shower cake, they were so adorable. It took her a while because she had to look at the picture and do it all by hand out of modeling chocolate and fondant. I also watched my sponsor, Krista make a layer cake with tons of icing and layers of cake. It looked so simple and easy but the way she cut it took forever; it had to be perfect. Something else I found very interesting was a women called about a baby shower cake that she wanted a price for. She stated that she called another bakery and got an estimate of eight hundred dollars, which was totally outrageous. Her budget was two hundred but the cake she was expecting to get made was very detailed and took a lot of work and time. Krista gave her a price of two hundred and fifty dollars and that was the best she could do. This gave me a view of the business side of the industry and how to make deals but keep their business. Therefore yesterday was more of a learning experience and knowledge building rather than hands on stuff.

Blog Connection - Disney!

Senior trip was amazing and I wish I was still there but unfortunately, that is not the situation. Before we left, Mr. Abrams told us to think of our project and remember to make connections over the four days we were in Florida. Being the good student that I am(ha ha), I made some good connections. Disney is full of food and good stuff as everyone knows, therefore I had no problem finding sweets to connect to. Every store we went into had lollipops in creative colors, shapes, ingredients, etc. This made me realize what it took to make them and how they made them and also how popular they are among all of the young children.

We went into a candy store full of candy, lollipops, candied apples, and tons of stuff and I saw a huge rice crispy treat in the shape of Mickey Mouse, it was awesome. They also had little cookie treats in the shape of mouses decorated in all different outfits. I loved seeing all the Disney treats, it made me feel like such a little kid, I wanted to eat everything I saw.

Also, something I thought was really cool while we were at Universal Studios yesterday was; a candy store was called Katie's Candy Company. Of course I went in and bought salt water taffy's from there and the guy gave me a discount because my name was Katie. (: Overall, I made a lot of good connections to all the delicious sweets there were in Disney.

Field Trip #8

Sorry I am so late on this post, with spring break, the holiday and senior trip fever I kept getting sidetracked. Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday with this gorgeous weather! But anyway, last Thursday was the Thursday before Easter which meant the bakery was very busy! I did something somewhat unexpected, I rolled coconut and peanut butter Easter eggs into their egg shape. It was actually rather easy and kind of fun, each one had to be the same size and oval looking. I also helped bag tons of Easter cookies for people to pick up, they were in shapes of bunnies, eggs, and chicks, decorated with beautiful pastel spring colors. Thursday was probably the busiest day since I have been there, birthday cakes, Easter bread, cookies, and personal orders, it was nuts. There was barley any room to move around with all the hot trays and four of us trying to work on our own little projects. Overall, it was another good experience, tried something that I have never done before but I want more challenging projects. I guess only time will tell whats next for me to do.