Sunday

Today we had a really good lunch, we had a BBQ, but it was very simple yet very delicious. We had salad with meat, arepa and an onion soup. My mom made the onion soup from scratch and it was delicious, she's so good at cooking! She's my inspiration not only for cooking but for everything:) Later in the afternoon I made dessert which was brownie with a cookie crust, as soon as they were cooled, they were gone, I think it was maybe an hour(or less) and they were ALL gone. I'm doing a little research as well for a cake ideas for a very special day that is coming up.

a great week!

This week I did a lot of things, Orly who is one of my best friends asked me to help her make a cake for coach Love's friend. I of  course agreed I would never turn down an opportunity on something new that I could learn from. We got all the ingredients and decorations, we planned it out, and began our creation. We made a had with an orange ribbon around it with a flower as the main piece, it was white with the colors of orange and pink. We also added these small eatable pear like decorations, my mom absolutely loved it! And so did coach Love which made us very happy and proud of ourselves:) I think we discovered something while working on this, we learned to work together and we got to see our talent!

The best chef I know:)

This week I got the opportunity to cook with my mom, for me it's definitely one of the best moments. She taught me how to make a recipe, she says will make me famous. It was a corn cake, it came out perfectly delicious! I made it from scratch it was beautiful. Cooking with my mom is always a pleasure, she has basically taught me how to do everything. One of the things that surprised me was one of the main ingredients for the corn cake was cream cheese, a not so healthy ingredient but a needed one. I have learned that cream cheese is a really important ingredient when making cheesecake(duh!) but it is also used to make other types of cakes. Overall this Monday was a really good day, thanks mom:)!

Sister time and chocolate chip pancakes:)

My older sister decided she didn't want to go to work on Wednesday... so we got to hang out for a while. I made us chocolate chip pancakes and we talked while eating, it was great:) It's been a while since we hung out, so I liked that we got that chance. I told her she should have told me that she wasn't going and we could have planned out the day. Either way we had fun and we got to chocolate chip pancakes:) My next task is making banana pancakes just like the song by Jack Johnson! I don't really know how I will do that but I am willing to try.

Packed week

This was pretty hectic, I did a lot of things related and non-related to wise. At the beginning I cooked a lot and I did  some work for my BC classes. This week we worked in groups and we also have to prepare a persuasive speech and is to be presented next week...mine is about how to eat healthy. I think it makes sense considering that I will be involved with food in my future I should know what kind of ingredients are healthy and helpful for my body. I will make it very persuasive and it could be considered as a source for my presentation since I had to look through a lot of website to gather information. I'm kind of excited to present it who knows maybe people will listen and take advantage of the information, I did.

Ideas

School is soon coming to an end, graduation is approaching and a very important presentation is soon to be seen. I have giving a lot of though since the beginning of the semester of what I want to do for my Wise 2011 presentation. I want to make three different courses to present, I will begin with an appetizer/ entry, I don't really know what I want to do as my main meal, for dessert I think I will make a raspberry lemon cheesecake. After this week I have learned a lot, and one of my favorite things was preparing the cheesecake, it was really easy to make and it was delicious! I will keep practicing to get everything right, and I will keep looking for my main meal course. 

Cheesecake finally

I know I have talked about preparing cheesecake for such a long time and today was finally the day! Hello cheesecake YUMMM! I am preparing cheesecake cookie cups, which are a cup that contains a bottom crust of cookie on top of the cookie once it's cooked of course goes the cheesecake mix. I let it cook for about twenty minutes and once it's all cooked I take it out and let it cool for a couple of minutes, then I add the cherries on top and place it in the fridge that way the cheesecake gets cold. I never though how easy making cheesecake really is, all you need is cream cheese, eggs, vanilla extract and condensed milk. Mix everything together and it's done! Last night I make chocolate chip pancakes, they were so good I don't really know why I made pancakes at night? But they were good that's all I have to say.

Cooking explosion!

This week has by far been one of the best weeks in wise! I have cooked about 7 to 8 times! Amazing I must say...I prepared salads, desserts, lunch, and quick snacks. I also had my mentor meeting which went really well. I made lunch on Wednesday, I prepared pasta, salads, bread, fish, chicken pitas, cheesecake cookie cups and more salads!...I am tired but not tired of cooking I'm just tired of standing. I stand all the time while I cook and by the time I am done I am so tired! I loved this week in wise, and I hope that there are many more to come.

Sunday

Ususally sunday in my house use to mean chores day. It's supposed to be a day when we clean  the house and get everything organized. But today it was pure lazy day, my mom had to work so chores day is postpone for tomorrow, today I made myself a chicken tomatoe pita and watched movies all day. It was a very relaxing day, I also plan on going out in a little bit to meet up with some friends, we're going to catch up and hand out pretty much. This will be the perfect finally to a great sunday. I did however do research on wise so I wasn't a total lazzy person today:)

An Okay week

This week things were okay..I managed to get a lot of things done but I was also a little bummed out. I got everything done for wise and I was really proud of myself because on Tuesday I had my court ceremony to become a citizen, I am finally an American citizen:) Having accomplish that after 10 years of being here is an amazing feeling. I had my mentor meeting with Maniglia and everything went well, after meeting with my mentor I had to go see my Italian teacher because she's the Italian Honor Society sponsor and I am the president. She had a lot of things to say to me and well after meeting with her, I honestly felt disappointed in myself...I talked about it with my mom, she always lifts up my spirit when I am a little down. So I talked it over with my mom and she made me realize all the good things that I have done, and that made me feel better.