Your Perfect Cookie

Everyone likes their cookie different. My dad prefers harder, almost crisp cookies; I like chewy; my best friend likes hers puffy. I never knew how to get such different types of cookies when I only had one recipe I really liked to use. Thanks to this article, however, I now know how to make them all! Check out The Science Behind Baking the Most Delicious Cookie Ever by Anne Miller to find the recipe to making your perfect cookie!

Blog 4: Interview Preparation

1. I plan to interview Ramona Jackson. She is one of the leaders for the VFW West Covina Post 8620 Sunday breakfast fundraisers and Wednesday dinner fundraisers. I am interviewing her because she is one of the main cooks in both of the events and helped create the menu and prices. She also trained me in omelet preparation over the summer for those Sunday breakfasts.

2. Some of the additional questions I plan to ask include:

• Why did you start working with the VFW meal fundraisers?
• What motivates you to continue working on these fundraisers?
• What is your favorite dish to make and why?
• Do you or have you ever worked in a kitchen anywhere else?  If so, what did you do there?
• What is the best way to make sure every guest in an order has their food finished at the same time?
• Do you have any tricks you use to have meals prepared more quickly? If so, elaborate on the them.
• What steps are there in preparing food for the fundraisers? When does preparation start?
• What is the best way a kitchen can run smoothly?

Blog 3: Topic Choice and Working EQ

1. My Topic: Cuisine

2. Question to focus this month's research: What is the most effective way to prepare a meal so that it is delivered to the guest in a timely manner?

3. A link to my WB can be found on the right hand side of my blog under the heading "Links". It can also be found here.

Blog 2: Summer Mentorship Componant

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1. Summer Hours Log

2. Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8620
2328 West Merced Ave.
West Covina, CA, 91790
Phone: (626) 337 2129
Post Commander: George Ogden

3. Questions

• How do we determine how much food to buy before every breakfast?
• How much does the VFW profit from this breakfast?
• How do people hear about the breakfast?
• How were prices determined?
• Who buys all the food? When?
• At What time does preparations for the service start at? How long does it take?
• Where do we buy the food from?

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4. The most important thing I gained from this volunteering was multitasking abilities. Whether I was working in guest service as a waitress or in the kitchen preparing food and plates, I constantly had many different things on my mind that I had to keep straight within my head.

5. My senior project is going to be something along the lines of "Cooking in Restaurants." I loved working in the VFW's kitchen, running pancakes, omelets, or the kitchen itself a lot. I've also always had a love of cooking in general, and a fascination with how restaurant staff can cook for so many people on such short notice. Working in VFW's kitchen gave me a glimpse of what this could be like, and I've realized I want to study the topic further.

Blog 1: 2-Hour Presentations

1.  What presentations did you see?
Ski Patrol, Radio Frequency Field Engineering, Creating a Franchise, Forensic Science, Military Leadership, Yearbook, Public Defender, Computer Science, Angioplasty, Theatre Tech, Medical Missionary, Cancer Advocacy, Dentistry, Marriage and Family Therapy, Business Management, Animal Care.

3. What has the most important part of the senior project based on what you are seeing in the 2-hour presentations?
Based off of the presentations I have seen, I'd say the most important part is having solid, detailed explanations to your multiple answers for the Essential Question.

2.   What questions do you have that haven't been answered about the senior project? This can be about the senior project in general, any components or about a presentation topic you saw or what they said. 
Does the activity count for time?
If it does, how long must the presentation be total?
Is food a good idea or bad one?
How many activities are required, or can you just talk the whole time?

4. What topic are you considering doing and why?
I am considering a couple different projects, but I really want to do either Theatre or Running a Kitchen (as in, what a head chef does). Theatre I would still need to narrow down, as just "theatre" is far too broad. I would do it, though, because I love acting, directing, working on sets, or just doing whatever I can for plays. Running a Kitchen is something I came up with because I volunteer at VFW Sunday breakfasts, where I often end up directing and organizing doers so it is easier for the kitchen to get stuff out more quickly. I love to cook and I love working with the cooks there, and I think it'd be a lot of fun and very interesting to do a Senior Project related to those things.

5. What are you doing for your summer mentorship?
I am still not sure what my summer mentorship will be because I am having trouble finding someone or someplace to mentor at. I have three or four ideas for projects in general and I think mainly what will help me decide between them are whatever mentorship I can get first.