My Cooking Experience
By: Lilly Wittwer
For my blog post I decided to do the cooking tutorial, since cooking is usually
my friend. However, I soon learned that cooking cookies by myself is actually
pretty difficult. I was looking online for good cookie recipe, when I ran across
a recipe titled, “The World’s Most Delicious Chocolate Chip Cookies.” Since it
said it was the world’s most delicious cookies, I decided to try to make it. I put
in all the dry ingredients, like it said, and mixed it up. As soon as I turned it on,
I realized that I hadn’t put anything over it to cover it, and immediately flour was
flying everywhere! As I observed the enormous mess I was creating, I stood
absolutely still, from shock. I then lunged into the cloud of dry ingredients,
(mostly flour), and sacrificed my clothes to turn off the monstrous device that
was shooting flour everywhere. Since most of the flour had shot out when I
didn’t cover it, I had to start over again from scratch.
my friend. However, I soon learned that cooking cookies by myself is actually
pretty difficult. I was looking online for good cookie recipe, when I ran across
a recipe titled, “The World’s Most Delicious Chocolate Chip Cookies.” Since it
said it was the world’s most delicious cookies, I decided to try to make it. I put
in all the dry ingredients, like it said, and mixed it up. As soon as I turned it on,
I realized that I hadn’t put anything over it to cover it, and immediately flour was
flying everywhere! As I observed the enormous mess I was creating, I stood
absolutely still, from shock. I then lunged into the cloud of dry ingredients,
(mostly flour), and sacrificed my clothes to turn off the monstrous device that
was shooting flour everywhere. Since most of the flour had shot out when I
didn’t cover it, I had to start over again from scratch.
The second time I put in the dry ingredients, I made sure that I covered the top
of the mixer. (Trust me, I learned that lesson.) Next, I added in all the wet
ingredients, such as milk and vanilla, and mixed it up until all the ingredients
were mixed in. Then, I added in the chocolate chips, and mixed them in. After
that, I used the cookie scooper to scoop the cookie dough into little balls that
put on the cookie tray, and put them into the oven. Following the instructions
on the recipe, I set a timer for 15 minutes so I would know when the cookies
were done. However, what I didn’t remember was that my mother had told me
a couple days ago that our oven cooks a little bit fast, so if I don’t want to over
cook my food, I should check on it a couple minutes earlier than it says. So,
when I took my cookies out of the oven, they looked somewhat hard and
crusty on the outsides of the cookies. They ended up tasting fine, but they
weren’t nearly as soft and gooey as I’d hoped. Even though the cookies
ended up as kind of a disaster, I learned some very essential things about
cooking: 1; always remember to cover the mixer when I mix ingredients.
2; always check on my food that’s in the oven a couple of minutes before it
says to check on them.
of the mixer. (Trust me, I learned that lesson.) Next, I added in all the wet
ingredients, such as milk and vanilla, and mixed it up until all the ingredients
were mixed in. Then, I added in the chocolate chips, and mixed them in. After
that, I used the cookie scooper to scoop the cookie dough into little balls that
put on the cookie tray, and put them into the oven. Following the instructions
on the recipe, I set a timer for 15 minutes so I would know when the cookies
were done. However, what I didn’t remember was that my mother had told me
a couple days ago that our oven cooks a little bit fast, so if I don’t want to over
cook my food, I should check on it a couple minutes earlier than it says. So,
when I took my cookies out of the oven, they looked somewhat hard and
crusty on the outsides of the cookies. They ended up tasting fine, but they
weren’t nearly as soft and gooey as I’d hoped. Even though the cookies
ended up as kind of a disaster, I learned some very essential things about
cooking: 1; always remember to cover the mixer when I mix ingredients.
2; always check on my food that’s in the oven a couple of minutes before it
says to check on them.
I like how you mixed the instructions of how to cook the cookies, in with the rest of your story to make it more interesting. But one thing you could do is to maybe talk about more specific dry ingredients like you did, with the wet ingredients.
ReplyDeleteI liked how you told us step by step of what you did to make the cookies and how you put the things that you learned. I really liked what you wrote. :)
ReplyDeleteI like this! I love the way you wrote everything in order. Good job!
ReplyDeleteGood job! You had a small disaster, but you were persistent and made the cookies. You could have separated things out a little bit, but overall you did great! (With the writing, not the cookies.)
ReplyDeleteLove the recipe details plus the narrative:) Fun post to read! Well done Lilly!!
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