This week I’m going to be starting with Sweden and making their national dish, Kladdkaka! Kladdkaka is very similar to a brownie. The main difference is that there is more sugar and no baking powder, making it dense and a bit sticky. This was the recipe I used: https://tasty.co/recipe/swedish-sticky-chocolate-cake-kladdkaka This was the process: Although I […]
Update
I have officially decided what I am going to add to my Genius Hour. As I have mentioned in my Fattah blog post, I want to add something to my Genius Hour so I truly feel like I have succeeded in the end. Along with what I’m currently doing, cooking and baking familiar food that […]
Week 4 – Mulukhiyah
Mulukhiyah is today’s meal. It’s made with minced jute leaves and it’s very nutritious and delicious served over rice and chicken. Let’s make it! First, I crushed the mulukhiyah or jute leaves until it was almost powder-like. In a pot, I sautéed some chicken, garlic, onion, paprika, curry, black pepper, and laura leaves with vegetable […]
Week 3 – Rolled Knafeh
This week I made a Middle Eastern dessert known as knafeh which is made from spun pastry known as kataifi, then layered with “sweet cheese” and topped with pistachios or other nuts after being soaked in a sweet syrup made of sugar known as qattar. Next, I got a chunk of kataifi and rolled the […]
Week 2 – Fattah
For the first week of cooking and baking, I made Fattah! Fattah consists of yogurt, herbed chickpeas, layers of pita bread, and often topped off with toasted nuts. Got some chickpeas. Then, I put the bread and chick peas into a bowl. To make the Fattah yogurt, I added yogurt, salt, lemon, a clove of […]
Huge Update
On March 21, I tried out for a U15 basketball team at Commonwealth. Although it felt very short, the tryout went pretty well and I was going to find out if I made it the following Thursday, and I made it! Everyone on the team is super nice and always brings in positive energy. We […]
Week 1 – Basketball
This is my video for the first week of Genius Hour! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Tq1AOgmGyUsvAC1X3EWpbNhu9aoUmugw/view?usp=sharing See you next week!
Project #2 – Plan
After thinking long and hard, trying to choose between Henna and Improving my basketball skills. I have decided to do basketball because it’s what I enjoy doing most during my free time. One of my biggest goals for the near future is to make the senior girls basketball team next year. I was really close […]
The End
I presented my final presentation on Friday, and it went really well! I had a slide full of photos with everything I made, and I was told that my photos looked like they were straight off from google because of their good quality. I spent a lot of time taking many photos from different angles […]
Week 14
I will still be working on my presentation this week. Along with my presentation, I have planned to bring in shawarma for the class! I am also working on making a script. This is the end of my Genius Hour project, and my presentation will be next week. I am really excited!