Month: April 2023

This week I made oyster mushroom burgers. Honestly this recipe is so good, it tastes like real fried chicken and I absolutely loved it. I followed the recipe of this guy on YouTube who makes really good vegan food called eat more plants. I was really skeptical of making this because I hate mushrooms but this was honestly so good I think I am reconsidering if I ever actually disliked mushrooms. The oyster mushroom chicken has such a crunchy crispy light batter, that makes it taste exquisite.The process in which this made consisted of these steps. First I dipped the oyster in the seasoned flour and then dipped it into the soya milk and repeated the process 2 more times. I then added it into the pan with oil at medium heat ( careful not to burn it). I waited until they turned a nice gold brown to take them out and assembled the sandwich part. I made the sauce/ spread this consists of mayonnaise (vegan), ketchup, sliced onions and pickles. I mixed it together keeping the mixture still thick because I like it that way. Once completed I spread it on the bread, I added lots since this is what partially makes the taste of this burger so good. Then I placed the fried oyster mushroom and topped it with more pickles. It was so simple yet so good(but very time consuming), I think this has to be the best recipe so far I have done.

Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16DEXPy9V01aNJEUjBIKWKcec9IaRDfa5/view?usp=sharing

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This week I made vegetable rolls, they are not entirely my favorite food but I think they turned out all right. I made something similar like this in Foods (option class) at school and I really liked them so I wanted to try and remake them. This is a familiar food that my mom made a lot when I was younger and I didn’t quite like it because of its peanut butter sauce. It didn’t make sense to me how something like vegetables can be eaten with something sweet like peanut butter. I always liked the roll though because of the yummy soft texture of the rice paper. I decided to not include the peanut butter sauce this time but I added vegetable fish sauce because it seemed appropriate and obviously tasted better to me. This recipe is fairly simple to make and I feel like has been the easiest so far, but I am working in baby steps getting confidence to make harder and time consuming recipes like the tamales I plan to do in the future (April 27). I was going through my plan and I think there will be a week that I will have to cook 2 times to complete all that I have planned to make in time and still give me time to prepare for my final presentation in June. I have started to look for a couple of experts and so far I have come up with an Edmontonian vegan chef named Nick and this wonderful pet shop called Mandy’s Little Bark Shop for tips on making dog treats. I will contact my experts as I go and hope to improve on there tips. Last week I discovered this really good app to edit my videos and it has been most helpful. My videos now look very neat, organized and creative. I hope to cut down my time making my video as it is time consuming to edit them and the videos are to long so I want to shorten them and highlight the peak moments in my cooking. So far this has been such a good couple of weeks and I hope that you enjoy watching my video and seeing my content as much as I like making it.

– Ruby

Video: my video didnt save and got deleted 🙁

This week I decided to attempt to make sushi. Sushi is high on my list of favourite food because of its yummy texture and exquisite flavours. I decided to make a vegan sushi (with vegan salmon) and vegetables. I ran in to trouble while cutting my sushi and it turned at bit mushy and deformed, but I tried using other methods to cut and they seemed to work better but not necessarily perfect. Even though my sushi might not have looked spot on my editing skills have gotten way better in just one week. I was using shotcut to edit my videos but this week I decided to use capcut which is so much simpler and easier to utilize. Overall I must admit I had lots of fun cooking and filming this video. Until next week, see you there.

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Sushi origins from china which may be a surprise, as many people think it comes from Japan. While Japan is the sushi capital of the world, and has introduced its dish to the world, sushi traces its origins back to a Chinese dish called narezushi. This dish consisted of ferment rice and salted fish. The dish spread from China to Japan were it was adapted and slightly tweaked up. Sushi was fist recored a dish in Japan in the 8th century as seen in some writers work. In the 18th the dish spread to Edo ( former name of Tokyo) were many local restaurants started making sushi. In 1852 there were for every 100×100 meter square block in Edo, there were 1-2 sushi restaurants. Thats a lot of restaurants! Even thought it was quite popular it was not the same as it was today as it was usually cooked due to the lack of refrigerating. When sushi was first introduced to the Americas was in the early 1900s it was a delicacy for the upper class and it became less common as the Japanese population declined in the late 1900s. After World War II, Japan was starting its economy up and began doing business, tourism, and trade and with America (1960s) was when sushi was exposed to the american society. Many middle class started trying sushi and loving it as a result. This is when the food industry exploded with this new food and exposed and exploited it to our modern day society. This is how one of americas most loved foods came to be.

Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dhX70ngFWCIS-b1frVO7Agdi-JA9-riI/view

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