Blog Post 3/23

Olivia Nordman

ENGL 101-037

Professor Melissa Santos

March 23, 2018

            There is no better way to start off a Monday than with an assortment of delicious food. My favorite topic this week had to be the food projects we presented. It was very interesting hearing about everyone’s individual ethnicities and family backgrounds. I liked how some people made recipe’s that are traditions in their household like the chocolate chip cookies and the mac and cheese, two of my favorites! Besides hearing about everyone’s journey’s through this project and what they learned, I enjoyed my personal experience in the kitchen just as much. Having this opportunity to go home and bake with my mom was a special memory I now have, that I wouldn’t if we did not get assigned this project. I learned a lot from the experience, especially getting to try out this delicious scone recipe which was new to me. We turned on the country music and got baking. Along the way my mom told me stories about when she used to bake with her mom as a little girl so it made the experience just that more sentimental. I am happy she got to carry this tradition down to me, as I hope to do the same with my kids in the future. I have always loved to bake so learning this new recipe was very exciting to me. I never would have pictured myself grocery shopping and pulling out my mixing bowls for a college English project, but the creativity this project brought out was very enlightening. Although I was stressed at the beginning on how I was going to find a recipe, bake it, and write a paper on my experience, it all came together much easier than I thought once I got going!