Mac'n'Cheese! What a Classic...

Stephanie and I cooked our final American dish on Tuesday. The convienence food horror..Mac'nCheese! I know that generaly Maccaroni and Cheese is considered to be the typical school lunch. Rubbery. Sticky. Tasteless. So if it has such an awful reputation, why did we pick it? Well the simple answer is, yet again, Jamie. We were looking through his cookery book and were really drawn to his version of mac'n'cheese. The only thing that really put us off was the amount of garlic that he adds. 10 cloves!!! But garlic aside, the dish turned out to be wonderful and we both really enjoyed our cheesy masterpiece.

Gorgeous Blueberry Puddings...

On Tuesday, Stephanie and I made our second American masterpiece in Home.Ec. Blueberry Puddings!! These are the most delicious desserts I have ever eaten! They are also, unlike most tasty dishes, extremely easy to make. We once again used Jamie Oliver's wonderful cookbook on American Cusine and as always he didn't fail us! To start off we chopped up some tinned pears, tossed them in brown sugar and spread them over the base of six ramekin dishes. We then made the pudding batter by beating the sugar, butter, vanilla, orange zest and juice, eggs and flour together using an electric beater. We then spread the batter over the pears, tossed the blueberries in sugar and scattered them over the top. We let them bake for half an hour, until they had risen and were nicely browned. At the end Stephanie and I sat down and scoffed the lot!

International Cusine Project!

For our International Cusine Project, Steph and I decided to cook three dishes from America! On Tuesday we cooked the first of these; Homemade Burgers with Spicy Mayo!! Mmmm.... The two of us had the best lunch ever that day! The other two dishes that we plan to make are Mac'n'Cheese and a lovely Blueberry Pudding. I can't wait! As part of the project we also have to make a presentation for the rest of the class talking about the culture, history, geography and food from the country.

Fashion Show!!

Last Friday we had our Ty fashion show! Over the last three months all the Tys have been working in groups to make an outfit using a white t-shirt, trousers and 15 euro! Our design was a long pink maxi dress with an elaborate hat. We got our inspiration from Rose from the Titanic because in the first scene of the movie she wears a huge fancy hat. This is what we modeled our hat design on! Here's a photo of all the designs from my Home Ec class.... :)

Colour Me Beautiful!!

On Friday two ladies came in to the school to do a Coulor Me Beautiful programme with all the TYs. They firstly divided us up into groups according to our hair, eye and skin colour. These groups were as follows; Light, Warm, Deep, Clear, Cool and Soft. Light - these people have pale skin, blonde hair and blue eyes. Warm - these people have fair skin with freckles, red, auburn or strawberry blonde hair, and green or blue eyes. Deep - these people have darker skin, darker eyes and brown or black hair. Clear - these people are fair skined, dark haired and clear eyed. Cool - these people are generally of an older generation with silver hair. Soft - these people have sallow skin, light brown or dirty blonde hair and brown or green eyes. I was told that I'm a Soft. The colours that suit me are creams, browns, olive greens, light blues, salmon, pale pinks, rustic oranges and purples!