Cai Fernandez-Powell's Food Reviews and Cooking Senior Project

I think that my group and I made a lot of great progress throughout our project. I can definitely say that my skills and abilities in the kitchen have improved a lot. I found many different recipes that I believe I will make at home often. It was also interesting to see that our best dishes came in our final two weeks, so we were able to see the progress that all four of us had made. I also believe that I was able to try different restaurants in Portland that I would have never tried, for example, the Colombian food cart downtown. It was the first time that I tried an Arepa and the first time that I realized there was Colombian food in Portland. I learnt a lot more about the South American scene of food in Portland than any other type of food we tried. I think critiquing the food became quite difficult because we had so many different things to write about in our blogs that we didn't have enough room to write a critique like the ones we read online. I think that we were all able to...

 For this week of the project, the theme was Asian food. This week we tried ramen and some other traditional Japanese dishes like chicken katsu and sushi.  One story that I would say stuck out from this week would be when we were trying to figure out when and where we were going to cook. We realized that none of our schedules really worked together, but there was a small amount of time that we could all cook together. I think this story stuck out to me because we were able to cook our dish in a small amount of time and it was definitely the best thing we have cooked so far, so it showed how much we were able to improve our cooking. Also how efficiently we all worked together. Something that I learned from this week was how important prepping before cooking is. Whenever we had everything ready to cook, cooking it all became a lot quicker and more efficient. When we didn't do this as well as we should've, it was a lot harder to start the cooking and it often took a lot longer....