Introduction-: I have been in interested in culinary arts from a very young age, when I helped my grandmother prepare meals in her cramped kitchen. When she passed on, I took up cooking alone by trying out recipes I found online. Beyond tweaking recipes I found, I had not really created my own recipes. This capstone project based on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy was a perfect opportunity for me to explore how to create recipes and do so using natural ingredients, which are crucial in a modern world dominated by GMOs.
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A: I cooked several dishes based on characters within both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings: dwarven meat pies; Smaug's fire soup; golden “Ring” bagels; a seedcake; ring-wraith …show more content…
Creating recipes isn’t as hard as some might think, but it isn’t easy either. Through this experience, I discovered that designing my own recipes was a challenge that takes a considerable amount of time and patience.
B: When I created my first recipes for this project, it wasn’t easy. I had no idea how to create a recipe from scratch and using natural ingredients also proved difficult. I discovered that using honey and other natural sweeteners is very difficult because the main sweetener I use in baked goods is white sugar, which is a solid as opposed to the liquid sweeteners I used in this project. This made things hard, because it was difficult to balance out the texture while still maintaining the sweetness.
C: Though this project required a lot of rinsing and repeating, I learned that I am capable of creating healthy, tasty recipes with natural ingredients. Making things from scratch is not easy, of course. Persistence is required and it paid off once I had a finished product sitting before me. I think I need some more experience with natural sweeteners like dates and honey, but I am inspired now to experiment with them on a higher
Body paragraph #1:
A: I cooked several dishes based on characters within both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings: dwarven meat pies; Smaug's fire soup; golden “Ring” bagels; a seedcake; ring-wraith …show more content…
Creating recipes isn’t as hard as some might think, but it isn’t easy either. Through this experience, I discovered that designing my own recipes was a challenge that takes a considerable amount of time and patience.
B: When I created my first recipes for this project, it wasn’t easy. I had no idea how to create a recipe from scratch and using natural ingredients also proved difficult. I discovered that using honey and other natural sweeteners is very difficult because the main sweetener I use in baked goods is white sugar, which is a solid as opposed to the liquid sweeteners I used in this project. This made things hard, because it was difficult to balance out the texture while still maintaining the sweetness.
C: Though this project required a lot of rinsing and repeating, I learned that I am capable of creating healthy, tasty recipes with natural ingredients. Making things from scratch is not easy, of course. Persistence is required and it paid off once I had a finished product sitting before me. I think I need some more experience with natural sweeteners like dates and honey, but I am inspired now to experiment with them on a higher