One of the major dessert that has been popular amongst children of the age 5-13, who am I kidding everyone loves a good warm chocolate cookie with a cold glass of milk. Have you ever wonder how many different kinds of cookies are there? I have some of my favorite include chocolate, white chocolate, raisions, and many more so how many more can there be! I looked at a few a websites and found out that you can make a cookie out of any kind of flavor. There’s even a cookie out of cappuccino, and many different wild types of cookies I wonder if it’s possible to make a cookie out of anything, I’m going to ask around and see what kind of wild flavor I get.

Downtown L.A. Hot Dog 

This Tuesday I was unable to do my 20% percent time in class, but I did work on something at home. I started looking at the different kinds of toppings you can put on a hot dog! After I had a craving for one, from L.A. It’s kind of weird to think about it, what else other than ketchup, mustard, and relish can be on a hot dog. But, it has come to my attention that there are many different kinds of toppings to put on a hot dog. For example, in downtown L.A. where I sometimes go with my cousins there are food stands where they sell hot dogs. But they are not the regular hot dogs, they wrap bacon around the weiner which is really good. Also, they put cooked onions on top, but I just get it with the bacon and ketchup. Also I have seen and read that in other parts of the country people put different kinds of toppings in their hot dog.

               CAULIFLOWER

I found a perfect website were you can learn cooking tips for any kind of foods, and not necessarily a food but also for a vegetable, fruit, or even seeds. This time I went out and looked and the tips they had for cauliflower,  an herb (Brassica oleracea var. botrytis) in the mu stard family, related to the cabbage and broccoli and having a whitish undeveloped flower with a large edible head. Well in the website, “Cooking Tips” they give tips of how to keep the cauliflower conserved for more than a few days. To keep the cauliflower conserved it should ba kept stored at 35 degrees F with the leaves still on and good air circulation, like this the cauliflower will last for two weeks if the leaves are still attached but without them it will only last about two days. There are other kinds of tips given in this website in what to do with the cauliflower, also with other foods. This website is very useful if you are trying to figure what to do with leftovers,or if you are bored of the same old kinds of foods, try something different.  ”Cauliflower“ cc By: Liz

Well I always thought there were two kinds of enchiladas, beef and chicken. Even you don’t know what enchiladas are you are missing a good latin dish.  An enchilada is a traditional Mexican dish, which is made in many very different ways. It is typically made with a corn (maize) tortilla dipped briefly in hot lard or oil to soften then dipped in the chosen enchilada sauce. The tortillas are filled and rolled up, placed in a casserole dish, then layered with sauce and possibly other additions such as cheese and chopped onions or olives. Well I had never herd of different ways to make enchilladas only the way my grandma, my mom, and well my whole family. But it so happens that my aunt had a small get together for my uncles birthday and my cousin’s wife is making the food for the party. Well she made some kind of enchiladas but a different way, instead putting the chicken inside she put the chicken leg outside like a side dish, and she put tortillas stacked together with everything else you put on the enchiladas. I found out that even though “enchiladas” are a common dish in Mexico, different parts of Mexico make them differently. I’ve been wanting to do some research on how many different ways you can make enchiladas. Here’s a video from youtube where I found a video that shows you how to make a chicken and beef enchilada.

Sugar can be cooked two ways: “wet” or “dry.” Wet cooking is the easier method, because it gives you greater control over the degree of caramelization.

• Sugar and water are brought to a boil; the water boils away and the sugar changes from pale gold to amber to brown.
• You can stir the pan to help dissolve the sugar, but stop stirring once the mixture boils.

Dry cooking usually involves adding an acid, such as lemon juice, to keep the sugar from crystallizing.

• Toss the lemon juice with the sugar until it’s the consistency of wet sand.
• Heat the sugar until it melts. Don’t stir, which promotes crystallization–the caramel will seize up and be grainy, not clear–but you may swirl the pan slightly to help redistribute any sugar that’s starting to brown.

For either method, as soon as the caramel reaches a deep golden brown, remove it from the heat and pour it into the dish or dishes in which you will be baking the flan. (It will continue to cook once you pull it off the heat, so don’t let it get too dark or the caramel will taste bitter and burnt.) Be very careful to avoid burns.

This recipe isn’t the only way you can make a perfect flan. While searching in the web I found a perfect website where they explain to you the origins and everything there is about flan, this website also link to other pages on how to make a different kind of flan; also a link to other food websites. This wesite is called simply, Flan! So try this websites and make your own yummy dessert, since I can’t right now! Yummy Flan! by: Vegan Warrior

   By: MillyNet

Jeff Han on TED Talks

In class we saw a video about "Multitouch computing” which was hosted by Jeff Han . Multitouch computing is as Jeff Han explained it a new kind of technology that responds to multiple inputs by multiple fingers-even multiple users-at the same time and will be seen everyone in just a few years. This new technology will soon transform the way we interact with computers. Devices that have multitouch sensing are able to accomadate multipkle users simultaneously, which is useful for larger interaction scenarios such as interactive walls and table tops. The major reseacher Jeff Han has spun his research into a startup company called Perceptive Pixel. This company creates large-scale, purposebuilt multitouch screens for military and industrial clients.Perceptive Pixel creates two main types of multitouch machines, a drafting-table display and a huge wall-mounted interactive screen.As for right now the biggest news yet in multitouch is the Apple’s iPhone, and iPods. Soon different kinds of multitocuh machines will be in the world that will help us.

 by: Michael Kovalchick