Chocolate bake slice

 Today we have created our chocolate bake slice that we have set in the freezer so that we can eat them tomorrow. The ingredients we used to make our base were:

- 50g of butter

- 1/4 sugar

- 1 egg

- 1 tblsp of cocoa powder

- superwine biscuts

- Few drops of vanilla 

And the method is:

1. Melt your butter and sugar into a pot over medium heat

2. Allow to cool and then add a egg and mix well

3. Add vanilla cocoa and biscuits and mix well

4. Press mixture into a dish and add cooking spray

5. Then set in the fridge, fezzer

Mince chow mein

Yesterday we made a mince chew mein but things didn't go to plan because someone had taken our left over mince from when we had made burgers and we were running out of time so we had to rush things and go a bit fast. We had made a lot and people from other classes had some because we had to much. Here is a recipe and ingredients for our mince chew mein.

350g noodle, instant, boiled, drained

You can substitute the chow mein noodles with rice or vermicelli noodles.

2 tsp cornflour

2 tbsp soy sauce

1 tbsp oyster sauce

1 cup beef stock

1 bunch bok choy

Or use baby bok choy or cabbage.

1 onion sliced

1 celery stalk sliced

2 carrots thinly sliced

1. Cook your noodles in a pot or pan

2. Cut your veggies

3. Brown your mince

4. Mix your soy sauce and cornflour

5. Then when your mince is browned add your veggies and sauces in

6. Then add your noodles

7. And serve

Patties

 On Tuesday we made burgers but before that we had to pre-made our patties so on Monday we made our patties with mince, egg, bread crumbs and some added cheese. Then on Tuesday we pulled out the bbq and chucked our patties on the bbq and started frying. We had buns, cheese, salad and sauce but some of the ingredients we didn't have but we enjoyed it in the end. Unfortunately we have no photos and no recipe but here is one i found online.

• Prepare all your ingredients before you begin. It is important to use mince from a cut of meat that has a little fat. This will not only add flavour, it also ensures a tender burger by preventing the patties from drying out during cooking. However, mince that is too fatty will expel the excess fat during cooking, causing the patties to shrink and toughen considerably. Topside is the recommended mince for making beef burgers as it contains the right amount of fat. Breadcrumbs] are not usually included in the traditional burger patty mixture, but their addition to this recipe helps to give the cooked patties a lighter, more tender texture. The egg acts as a binding ingredient so that the patties can be easily shaped. It also helps them hold together when cooked.
• Step 2
  Place the beef mince

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  , breadcrumbs, egg, parsley, onion, garlic, Worcestershire sauce and Tabasco sauce in large bowl. Season with salt and pepper. Mix with your hands until evenly combined.
• Step 3
  Divide the mixture into 6 equal portions (you can use a 125ml / 1/2 cup measuring cup if you like). Shape each portion with your hands into a patty about: 10cm in diameter and 1.5cm thick.
• Step 4
  Place the patties onto a tray lined with- greaseproof paper. Cover with plastic wrap and place in the fridge for at least 30 minutes to rest. Chilling the patties will help them hold together when cooked. This also allows the flavours in the patties to blend and develop. If you chill the patties for any longer, increase the cooking time slightly.

• Step 5
  Heat half the olive oil in a large, non-stick frying pan over medium-low heat and cook half the patties for about 4 minutes on each side or until browned and cooked through. It is important to cook mince right through because it has a larger ratio of surface area to volume than whole pieces of meat, and is therefore at greater risk of contamination by bacteria in the air. Transfer the patties to a plate, set aside and keep warm. Repeat with the remaining oil and patties.
• Step 6
  Meanwhile, preheat grill on high. Place the hamburger buns, cut-side up, under the preheated grill and toast for 1 minute or until golden, as desired. Leave the grill on. Place the patties on a baking tray lined with foil. Top patties with cheese. Place under the grill for 1 minute or until the cheese is just melted.
• Step 7
  To serve, spread the bottom halves of the toasted hamburger buns with the American mustard. Top with the lettuce, sliced tomato, patties and dollop with tomato sauce. Cover with the hamburger bun tops.

Scones

 Last week we made scones for food technology and we cold bring our own ingredients and that's exactly what I did. We worked in buddies and my buddy and I worked well together. We made ham and cheese scones which were very good but very hot. We completed our scones in the time frame given which was also a plus. Here is the recipe we used and a photo of our scones.

• 3 cups Edmonds standard grade flour

• 6 tsp Edmonds baking powder  

• ¼ tsp salt                                       

• extra Meadow Fresh milk

• 75g butter

• 1 to 1 ½ cups Meadow Fresh milk, approximately

• Preheat the oven to 220ºC. Grease or flour a baking tray.

• Sift the flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl. Rub in the butter with your fingertips until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.

• Add the milk and quickly mix with a round-bladed table knife to a soft dough. For light and tender scones the mixture should be quite soft and a little sticky. Scrape the dough onto the floured baking tray and flour the top.

• Working quickly, pat the dough out to 2cm thickness and with a floured knife cut it into 12 even-sized pieces, then separate the scones to allow 2cm space between them. Brush the tops with milk.

• Bake for 10 minutes or until golden brown. Place on a wire rack to cool, wrapped in a clean tea towel to keep them soft.

Being globally minded

 This term we have been learning about economics and the world and how things are traded and sold around the world. Here are the key concepts for this topic and there meanings.

Economy 

Economy is a process of which money, goods and services are bought around the entire world,

all into a system of how money works in our/that country. Economy can also be used to help others in

need, that is why we ( people with jobs ) pay taxes. Taxes go to helping the earth such as roads and

more. It is also to help the government and finally to help people without a job or people who struggle

in life. All of these come under the economic system. So basically economy is money, goods and services

all into one.

Trade 

Trading can be defined in many terms but this is the true or main meaning of trade.

Trade is an act of selling your items in exchange for another. So in other words trade is pretty much

exchanging items for items. Here is an example of trade: if I had a kit kat chocolate and

I wanted a hershey chocolate and my friend had a hershey, I would ask if they want to trade and if

they agree we would swap items or in this case chocolate. Other people like to trade online, in person

or through shipment. Trade can be done many ways but only you can make it happen.

Globalisation

Globalisation is everything sold around the world, everything that is bought and sold whether it's online or in person. Also globalisation is the process of markets across the world become more integrated thanks to the exchange of goods and services. The process of incrisingley interconnected because of massive increase trades throughout the world. The meaning of interconnected is mutually joined or related, so this pretty much means joining with others not only to trade but talk about economy and all globally things. In today's world we all live in a world were economic globalisation is cared about a lot and is more known to men/woman.

We’ve also been learning about exported products and what countries and places they get exported too.

This company I have chosen is NZAS. NZAS also known as the New Zealand Aluminium Smelters make

the NZ export product aluminium. This product was made in 1971 and is located in Tiwai in the south

island. This company makes aluminium and aluminium is great to keep food fresh, is easy to carry and is

totally not eatable.

9T English

Here is a  reflection on everything I have learned this year in English.

About me: This was the first thing we did in English this year. We had to write about ourselves talking about our siblings, hobbies and more. We also had to talk about who we admire and of course I wrote about my mum/mom. 

Speeches: This year we had to write a speech. This speech had to be 2 minutes but a lot of us had ones that went over and under the time limit which was fine. We had three topics to chose from school/community problem, someone we admire and determination creates success and I went with a school problem.

Reading responses: It is now term 2 and we have moved on to reading responses we did a novel study and the book we did it about was see ya Simon. Simon a boy who is unable to do things normal human beings can do. That is a little brief of who Simon is. We also did a comic response, we picked one comic and wrote about it, like the main characters and things like that. Our final response was a short story which I don't remember much about.

Film study: In term 3 we had to learn about films and the different ways directors film there shots in movies. We also had to learn why they use that specific shot and how the director wanted the audience to see them as. After learning about all these shots we watched a movie and had to answer these questions about the movie like: what shots did they use, what the director wanted us to see and how the shot works.

Creative writing: Term 4 brought the last task of 9T English, creative writing. This term we have been learning about what verbs, adjectives and all those things are. We wrote creative sentences using verbs and adjectives etc, and whaea Annette had to look and make sure we had all the right things in our writings/sentences. 

Easttle Writing test: At the start of the year we had an easttle writing test, this test was about something but I don't remember lol, but the end of year easttle test was about an environmental problem on the earth. We did that test just last week on Wednesday and had another period to do it on Friday.

Extra: Throughout the year we did different small warm ups such as word brick. For word brick we had to pick one word from a bunch of words and write the definition and a sentence using that specific word. Another little activity we did was SSR ( Silent sustained reading. ) This is were we read short little story's and answer the questions. We finally finished those SSR's today.

That is everything I have learnt and done in 9T English 2021.

NZ Export products blog

For the past week we have been researching export products in New Zealand and the companies that make those products. So I will reflect about my nz exported products mahi. We created a slide putting in a bunch of information. We had to find the top 10 nz export products and their worth. We also had to find the total worth of nz export products in the world for every year from 2018-2021. Another thing we had to do is pick one nz export product and research about it. The product I chose was aluminium and the company I chose was NZAS. In New Zealand it is used very frequently, it is bought lots and keeps food fresh. I got to learn more about my country and what products are bought the most, I also learnt where it is sold all over the world and trust me when I say this al ot of countries sell it. I also got a better understanding of how things are exported to other countries from NZ to around the world. Overall I think learning about this made me understand more about economy, products and how things are shipped to other countries, cities, towns etc. So I did learnt a lot from this topic and hope to do it again.