Reflection 16.08.2011 Foccacia and Wraps

This lesson we were giving two recipes to work on. I like the variety and change every once in a while. With the two recipes, we were working under pressure- with preparing two recipes and then washing and cleaning up afterwards, within a 45 minute period. This kind of gives us a taste of what it really is like working under pressure and being focused and on task and not getting distracted. I was working on the wrap and i had the task of cooking the meat properly, along with the other vegetables and spices. I think it is so important to cook the chicken properly, due to several diseases which link to uncooked meat. I cooked my meat for a good 20-30 minutes-just to make sure that the chicken is definitely cooked. Laura was working on the foccacia. When we both finished, we efficiently cleaned up and packed everything away. We had several minutes at the end of the lesson, so we decided to try our two recipes. Both of the recipes tasted so good and it's nice change from the sweet recipes, to have something savory. Also, both of these recipes were healthy and had appropriate amounts of nutrients and minerals, in creating a healthy snack for lunch. This lesson, i learnt how to work independently, and i think i have definitely improved in my cooking skills and i feel i could go on to cooking something much harder. I have become adjusted to reading different recipes with maybe different wording, or different measurements.