Invention Test

Since we don't go to school so we can't have tech, we get assingned a recipe to do if we want to. This week was an invention test. We had to use at least two. We worked with eggs, cheese, fruit, chocolate. I decided to use eggs and chocolate. I made meringue and got through a lot of rotton eggs. I spread the meringue onto a tray and then chopped it into cracker like shapes and covered in chocolate. I was intentionally trying to make chocolate berry meringues but some things changed. I had a few egg yolks to left to make something with so I made an old fashioned vanilla slice/custard square.

Here is the recipe.

Meringue crackers chocolate things

4 eggs, seperated
1 cup of sugar
1 teaspoon of cream of tartar
2 table spoons of coconut oil
1/2 cup of chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 180 degrees
Beat the 4 egg yolks until frothy and bubbly
Gradually add the sugar and cream of tartar, slowly about tablespoon by tablespoon every 30 seconds
Keep beating for the next 4 - 7 minutes or until stiff peaks form
Spread the meringue mix on the baking tray to shape around a 30 cm by 30 cm square
Place into oven for 10 - 15 minutes
Cool if they look brown it doesn't matter it will add to the taste
Cut into 5 to 10 cm pieces
Melt the coconut oil in microwave add chocolate chips for around 15 seconds
stir till smooth and pour over meringue, let cool.
ENJOY!!

Random Words

This was one of my activities today. It was to write several sentences from random words. You can choose any word you want of get someone to choose between 1 and how many pages in your book. Then choose between 1 and 24 to get the line, then 1 and 10 to get the word.

One of our class novels is 'The Boy Who Harnessed' so I decided to choose a word from that. I have chosen 'misala'. The meaning is 'go crazy'. Here is my sentences.

Spiders were flooding out of the sky, landing, taking over the world, maybe. I began to think I was misala. My worst fear, all over my lawn.

Slightly charred and ripe. Juicy dowe dripping from my mouth, licking up every last bit.

Autumn Acrostic

A lways have our hands on the rakes

U nderfoot a thick carpet of hues

Trees bare as skeletons in the dark, shadowing over the young

U mber leaves, likes bits of burnt toast flying like a witch on a broom

M any colours falling to the ground only to be swept to the side

N ature is alive

Anzac Day Acrostic

Amid gunshots, deafening, scarring, making me freeze in horror.

Nightmares of death awaiting me filling my head with fright.

Zipping bullets, firing out the machine gun, taking Turkish lives.

Atmosphere filled with pollution, smoke and bullets. 

Cannons bursting my ear drums, making me jump with pain.

Dads, sons, brothers, husbands all lying in their own blood,
could that be me next? I think to myself, will I ever see my family again?

Aching feet from life in the trenches.
Muddy cold, sore, never dry and worn as I get off the boat one last time,
this time I am going home. 

Yesterday I was taking others lives,
now I am reuniting with the ones that make my life important.

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders Fields...

Novel Study

                                 Peekay

I have been doing a novel study in my reading group. I choose to create a wordle with one of the characters as an activity. Peekay is the main character in ' The Power Of One'. So I decided to do him. I have been really enjoying this book so far, I am at chapter 5,  when I have finished it I will do a book report.

Poppies

Recently I made with my family some poppies. We used black pipe cleaners, scrap red card and a red reusable warehouse bag. We cut a variety of circles and threaded the pipe cleaner to try resemble the poppies shape. I think they ended up beautiful because their are such a diverse range of them. Big or small. Then we presented them in vase. They look great.

Gnocchi And Rich Garlic Tomato Sauce

Gnocchi is an Italian dish dish also known as 'potato pasta'. I was watching 'Nadia's Comfort Kitchen' ( a quarantine special ) the other day. I saw her making this dish. It just looked moth watering so I didn't hold back and the next day made this for My family and I 's dinner. I've gotta say it was delicious. Here is the recipe. ( Makes enough for a hungry family of five )

Ingredients

Gnocchi
4  large potatoes, not the small boiling ones, the big baking spuds cleaned with skins on.
1 egg
About 3 - 4 cups of flour
Large pasta pot
salt
water

Sauce
2 cans of tinned tomatoes, don't recommend using the mexican style, very hot.
3 cloves of garlic or 2 teaspoons of crushed, what ever you have on hand.
Salt and pepper to taste


Preheat your oven to 180 degrees
Place the cleaned spuds on the tray and place into oven for 50 minutes or until very tender. Stick a knife through them to test.

Cut the warm potatoes in half and squeeze the mash out of the skins into into a seive over a bowl. Don't chuck those skins away. You can bake them in a tray for about 10 minutes in a bit of oil and salt to make potato skin chips.You don't want to be handing hot potatoes so wait till they are cooled down, but they have to be warm not cold.
Push the potato through the seive to make it as fluffy as possible. Add in to egg mixing fast to not cook the egg. I gave up after a while because it was so tedious, but If you are patient enough probably a good idea to do this step.
Sift the flour cup by cup and mixing with you hands until it reaches a dough like form. Then roll into 30 cm worm like rolls about 2 to 3 cm wide. Cut with a knife into bite size pieces. They now will look like squares. Start by boiling the water in the pot. Salt the water up like you do to cook pasta. Cook for around 20 minutes till they feel similar to pasta.

While the Gnocchi are cooking start the sauce. Add 3 tables spoons of oil to a hot pan. I know it sounds like heaps but you need it. Then add the tomatoes and finely cut garlic. Add some seasoning herbs, salt, pepper. You can be very flexible with this sauce adding gherkins, salami, broccoli, parsley, basil, ect. Simmer of a medium heat for at least 10 minutes.

When both things are cooked strain the gnocchi and mix the sauce with it. Add some cheese on top with salt, pepper, parsley anything you want.

Enjoy.

Rain Guage

For maths I made a really easy rain Guage.
It is a great fun maths activity which anyone can make. You only need a plastic bottle and a pair of scissors.
First cut the top about 1 / 4 of the way down.
Face the lid facing down into the bottle so the top is a wide brim so rain will easily fall into the bottle.
This rain gauge offers great maths, so now I can make tables of how much rain I will get in a week. Another thing I considered was how much wind we get at my house. The rain gauge would definitely blow away. So I shoved some rocks into the bottle to hold it down. To mesure the rain you will tip it into a mesuring cup. I cant wait until next week to measure my rain. Here's my work.

Pinwheel Scones

Since lockdown we have been doing online school. We have been given a recipe every wednesday to fill in cooking tech. This week we could make pinwheel scones, a tech favourite. They are cinnamony and delicious. I think that there is no better season to make them in then Autumn. Heres how to make them.