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For the sake of completeness: the first post at LJ.
I took home economics throughout secondary school. I was, erm, not considered academically astute and so it was suggested that I'd better learn some cooking and sewing, because. Girls should do girl stuff, right? >_> (And I did take Fashion and Fabrics and I got an A1, so there. I'm totally dating myself, aren't I?)
Anyway, I did like cooking. (Please note past tense.) Making your own food, not dependent on other people to keep me fed... what's not to like, eh? So, for one exam, we were put in teams of two, told to make a main dish, a side dish (I think) and a dessert. We were supposedly to present the dishes in nice-looking china, cutlery, tablecloth, vase of flowers. It was like playing house.
So, our dish was, I think, fried noodles? I can't remember the side dish. But I remember the dessert because that was my responsibility. We were (I was) supposed to make sweet corn kueh, except due to budget concerns we didn't get to use canned corn but fresh bananas. Ok, fine with me. I would mention that we had practiced this particular dish before and I was familiar with it and so I was pretty confident about making it.
For those people not so familiar with kueh kueh, it's awesome. It's actually too sweet for my taste now but I'd still buy a few pieces when I get the urge. Anyway, there are all sorts of varieties but I love the sweet corn type because it comes in a cute lil' squarish container made of coconut leaves.
The recipe... I'd ask my mum, but it's past midnight, so have a link (though it uses banana leaves, pft).
So I went ahead and did every step as I had memorised, etc, etc, and me and my partner were pleased with our progress, and we finished cooking and started the cleaning-up. And that was when I discovered a saucer of the sugar that I was supposed to add to the kueh kueh.
To this day, I can only blame exam stress for what I did next. We were already bagging up the vegetable peelings, etc, for disposal and so very, very sneakily, making sure no one could see what I had discovered (the sugar was inexplicably hidden behind a plastic bag), I dumped the sugar into the disposal bin and then washed the saucer. I didn't tell anybody what happened.
I continued not telling anyone, ever, though my partner was probably puzzled as hell later (we divided up the food to take home) because the kueh kueh was totally tasteless (despite the presence of sliced bananas).
Ah, but what about the teacher who was acting as food taster? Well, the teacher had tried my kueh kueh the first time I made it and she liked it. So in this exam, since it looked fine as well, she gave us a decent grade, while all the while I was thinking, "Don't try it!" She didn't eat any, probably because she had already tasted the first five groups' efforts.
So, that's me. Cheating in a cooking exam.
{Take the 100 Things challenge!}
For the sake of completeness: the first post at LJ.
I took home economics throughout secondary school. I was, erm, not considered academically astute and so it was suggested that I'd better learn some cooking and sewing, because. Girls should do girl stuff, right? >_> (And I did take Fashion and Fabrics and I got an A1, so there. I'm totally dating myself, aren't I?)
Anyway, I did like cooking. (Please note past tense.) Making your own food, not dependent on other people to keep me fed... what's not to like, eh? So, for one exam, we were put in teams of two, told to make a main dish, a side dish (I think) and a dessert. We were supposedly to present the dishes in nice-looking china, cutlery, tablecloth, vase of flowers. It was like playing house.
So, our dish was, I think, fried noodles? I can't remember the side dish. But I remember the dessert because that was my responsibility. We were (I was) supposed to make sweet corn kueh, except due to budget concerns we didn't get to use canned corn but fresh bananas. Ok, fine with me. I would mention that we had practiced this particular dish before and I was familiar with it and so I was pretty confident about making it.
For those people not so familiar with kueh kueh, it's awesome. It's actually too sweet for my taste now but I'd still buy a few pieces when I get the urge. Anyway, there are all sorts of varieties but I love the sweet corn type because it comes in a cute lil' squarish container made of coconut leaves.
The recipe... I'd ask my mum, but it's past midnight, so have a link (though it uses banana leaves, pft).
So I went ahead and did every step as I had memorised, etc, etc, and me and my partner were pleased with our progress, and we finished cooking and started the cleaning-up. And that was when I discovered a saucer of the sugar that I was supposed to add to the kueh kueh.
To this day, I can only blame exam stress for what I did next. We were already bagging up the vegetable peelings, etc, for disposal and so very, very sneakily, making sure no one could see what I had discovered (the sugar was inexplicably hidden behind a plastic bag), I dumped the sugar into the disposal bin and then washed the saucer. I didn't tell anybody what happened.
I continued not telling anyone, ever, though my partner was probably puzzled as hell later (we divided up the food to take home) because the kueh kueh was totally tasteless (despite the presence of sliced bananas).
Ah, but what about the teacher who was acting as food taster? Well, the teacher had tried my kueh kueh the first time I made it and she liked it. So in this exam, since it looked fine as well, she gave us a decent grade, while all the while I was thinking, "Don't try it!" She didn't eat any, probably because she had already tasted the first five groups' efforts.
So, that's me. Cheating in a cooking exam.
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