Looking back #1

Macaroni and cheese - apparently the only thing more difficult than spelling macaroni is actually cooking it. The irony is that for most of kids the only thing they technically knew how to make when I surveyed them at the beginning of the course was mac&cheese...too bad they very rarely specify that it is with the aid of Kraft.
With that said, even if you have been a cult follower of KD, you should know that the first job whenever making macaroni is to get that water boiling...YIKES! I guess if the blue and yellow ADHD stimulating box isn't in front of you, you throw all previous knowledge out the backdoor. The worst part is that in the three cooking classrooms I have spent my teaching career in, for some reason water takes extra long to boil. I know your thinking water boils at a constant temp, and that should not be influenced by the location, if in fact you are at the same longitude and latitude location...so I don't know if cooking classrooms have a different altitude...or if its just someone up there having their own little laugh at my expense but water really takes longer in my classroom!
Anyways 1 out of 10 groups was 100% successful...so i guess it wasn't a complete failure. Apparently, if anyone was to be blamed, it was me. Yes, me. According to the kids I make recipes too hard. I make recipes too hard? Um, excuse me, all I do is print them, I don't write recipes in my free time...the funnier part is that I went through the recipe and added some paragraphing and numbering to help make it easier! Go figure!
Anyways what was 100% successful, was the number of students who thought this macaroni and cheese really out did Kraft Dinner!
Phillip Morris 0 Sawchuk 10!

letting it rise

I am going to compare the time away from the site as the "rise" time. We all know good bread needs some serious time to rise, and likewise, so does a good blog. Now with excuses aside, at some point I just decided that I was tired at the end of the day and I guess blogging wasn't my top priority. But remembering the reason I had planned the blog in the first place was as a reflective place to look back on the - a zone where I could put the hectic often unprocessed minutes between 9-3:30 into perspective. So what am I saying...the timer has beeped and I am back.