The quinoa brownies turned out really well. The students seemed pleased - or at least satisfied. The last group told them the brownies were gross, so their expectations were low. I don't think you should take culinary recommendations from the group that ruined their recipe. Or the group that measured their salt OVER the dry ingredients. (It's really hard to pick the extra 4.5 ml of salt out of a bowl of dry anything).
The 6/7s made blender smoothies. I'd saved it for last simply because I'd anticipated hot weather, which hasn't arrived. I just didn't want to be baking on a scorching hot day. Four classes of using blenders... they're still a bit iffy about how to wash the silly things, but overall quite good. As we entered the final class, I was feeling pretty good about their ability to complete the lab.
Group 5 erupts in dismay - it's a blender blowout and smoothie ingredients are oozing onto the counter. The problem isn't that the blade assembly is mis-threaded. It's that the blade assembly is sitting, loose, inside the jar. Not attached. At all. No wonder it's leaking!
I get them cleaned up and re-started. (I want water-proof blenders so that I can just deal with a blow out by giving the thing a good rinse. So much faster!) I turn to the group next to them and begin to survey the room. The Special Ed. Assistant swoops in behind me to Group 5. Utters things in disbelief. The boys look baffled. She holds up an unpeeled banana that she intercepted on its way into the blender.
I should have told them to PEEL the banana before putting it in the smoothie. Is it ironic that the next day, some visiting high school students ran past my class dressed (among other things) as a banana?
And that's my first year teaching Home Ec. And you know what? I'm looking forward to next year.
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