* happy birthday mum!

my mother turned 46 recently and i decided to make a cake for her. her only request was 'NO CREAM'. she hates cakes that have cream. so with the help of my cousin, he volunteered to help me make my mum's birthday cake.

this is call mango fool cake, as claimed by my cousin. my mum loves mango. this cake is covered with mango mousse. the content of the cake is just sponge cake and peaches. im glad that my mum loved it. she even requested for more. :)) celebrated the birthday at my aunt's and everyone who tasted this cake loved it! i was even asked if they could order. haha!

I would like to thank my cousin for helping me out. :)) patience in baking? i don't think i have that patience. something thoughtful to reflect about.

Microteaching 4

This week is the microteaching for my group.

At the end of the microteaching, i feel that i have not done well for it. Firstly, my organization and preparation turn to be bad. I was nervous and i panicked.

I've learnt that, i need to be very well prepared. I also need to give precise instructions to the students. Teamwork and communication is very important when it comes to group work.

If i were given a chance to do all over again, i would not want to repeat the mistakes that i've made during the microteaching.

On the other hand, my roux sauce turn out well :)

Microteaching 2

Thumbs up for Group 2! =)

A new dish that i have learnt is the Chakchouka. It would taste better if was minced meat instead of minced chicken. :)

All the dishes that was taught were rather spicy.

Mutton Masala

Baked sambal chicken

Chakchouka

Lunch at Sakura

Simple food presentation with chiffonade cabbages and also parsley. =)

Microteaching 1

Staples around the world!

Kudos to group 1 for your microteaching. =)

I learnt a new dish which is the couscous. My first time trying it, my first time tasting it. I do not know what it is suppose to look or taste like but my couscous turned out to be dry and gritty. The taste was sweet probably due to the raisins. The quiche and penne pasta were superb! =)

Penne Pasta with Grilled Chicken

Quiche

Couscous

Food Photography

Food palating is one of the ways where you could show your creativity to attract consumers attention. If we eat at a restaurant or food court, we would be able to see the types of palating techniques to make the food more appealing to eat. In palating, we used garnishing to give off the colour so that the dish will not look pale.

Given the opportunity to do food photography, these are the pictures that i took as part of class lesson. In schools, students are asked to present their food product and teachers are to take pictures of the products that the students made. Also, we only encourage students to present minimal and simple to avoid overwhelming of the dish.

During lesson, i took pictures of donuts.

A point that i have learnt and i will keep in mind is:

NO GARNISH IS BETTER THAN WRONG GARNISH.

* Web Review 5

This sharing site is created by Melanie Sandoval. She was once a Food and Consumer Science teacher. She created this site to give back to the community.

FamilyConsumerSciences.com exists to give back to the community of F.C.S
professionals and our future Family Consumer Science teachers. The idea for the
site came after I finished student teaching and realized how much I wanted to
help other new and experienced Family Consumer Science teachers by categorizing
and sharing lessons, ideas, strategies, etc. At the very beginning of my student
teaching experience I remember feeling so overwhelmed because I had to teach
areas of FACS that were my weakest. I was so relieved when I stumbled upon the
Utah Education Network’s website that published many different lesson plans with
the supporting materials that I was inspired to create a resource that was
similar but allowed for more community interaction and contribution.
I
believe that teachers spend too much time trying to reinvent things that have
already been done but are not available to them. We struggle alone often times
not realizing that people that are more experienced have already done what we
have been struggling with and have real answers. That is why I desire to
categorize and freely share lessons and supporting materials so that teachers
across the country can spend more time perfecting and tailoring lessons than
having to create ones that already exist. -M. Sandoval

In this site, we can find lesson plans in the different areas of family and consumer sciences (home economics) through forums.
This sharing involves powerpoint slides, worksheets, links, videos and textbooks. It is categorised into child development, clothing (sewing), food and nutrition, interior design and life skills. It also provides articles related to family and consumer sciences.


one that caught my eye:

want to read more:

Home Ec's Modern Make Over: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/01/AR2010060101861.html

You can find anything that is related to Home Economics here. You will be able to share with your students what others students from other countries are doing for Home Economics.


What's more? you can also do your sharing with this site. You can share your lesson plan with other Family and Consumer Science teachers by being a part of the forum. No registration is needed. You just have to fill up the details.

do not forget to check the box.

and yes, it must be original =)

browse more: http://familyconsumersciences.com/

*Web Review 4

Nourish Interactive is a web platform created by nutrition health professionals for parents and health educators to promote healthy living for the whole family. It gives children and family the knowledge and skills to make healthy choices.

It provides FREE membership that offers online games, nutrition tools, suggestions and tips to reinforce the importance of healthy eating.

Nourish Interactive focuses on three groups

and every group has it's own activity, nutrition tool, games and so much more!

For health and nutrition educators like us, Home Economics teachers;

Education nutrition tools for students and parents. This resource is suitable for preschoolers and primary school children. For certain tools, we can even use this to our lower secondary students especially the secondary 1 students who might know only a little about nutrition education.

e.g reading a food label

The fun way to learn about nutrition for family and children.

Browse more: http://www.nourishinteractive.com/

*Web Review 3

All about sewing. What I like about this website is that it has "guidelines for sewing". It's a useful guideline for beginners. It teaches you how to do this and that. An example would be attaching buttons. Its processes are lengthy but it's easy to read and understand.



Another reason why i would recommend you to use this website, it will give you some project ideas thay you can use. Although the methods can be confusing, it gives you the rough idea how a certain project should look like during the process and also at the end product.



It's featured blogger, Linda Griepentrog, is well connected to the sewing industry thus she created the blog, SEW-lutions (solutions) to share her information about new products, books, sewing tips, indsutrial tips, new projects that she's working on and so much more. She owns a business called G Wiz Creative Services.



Take a peek: http://www.sewing.org/scripts/blog/

Sewing.org: http://www.sewing.org/index.html



not forgetting, it's September. =)

*Web Review 2

I'm sure you've heard of her, seen her on tv; Rachel Bake! She is one of my favourite; Rachel Allen. I love watching her show cause it's about baking and i love baking! =) so if you love to bake, you should watch her.

Rachel Allen was from Dublin and went to study at the world-famous Ballymaloe Cookery School at the age of 18. She is now a busy TV chef, autho of four bestselling cookery books, journalist and mother, and still teaches at Ballymaloe.

Rachel's style of cooking is
above all practical - simple but delicious food, ideal for family and friends.
Her influences are both regional and global. The BBC describe her as an "Irish
cooking queen" and Good Food magazine believe she "has put Irish cooking on the
map in recent years". Rachel has a devoted fan base both in the UK and Ireland,
and the popularity of her television programmes continues to rise.

She came to Singapore in August for the Singapore Food Festival.

Rachel posts only selected recipes on her website but i would love to share a video of her cooking show.

Rachel Allen: http://www.rachelallen.co.uk/index.html

*Web Review 1

Foodtube.net is like food on youtube? This is one of the web resources that I love because I am able to watch video recipes (the term that they used). It may not be much as it has only about 3000 videos that has been uploaded but it has a variety of choices, meaning you are able to find the range of video recipes from different cooking methods to the different kinds of dishes (e.g Thai dishes, etc.) What's more, you can even sign up for FREE! How can this be useful? You might want to consider this to be part of your teaching resources as you can upload video recipes too. So basically you can cook at the same time record and then upload it on Foodtube. In other words, it is a sharing platform not only with your students but also with the members in the Foodtube as you will get to comment of what others have done and shared. :)

http://foodtube.net/