Sustainable Cooking

Sustainable Cooking

Our 9th grade class took on the responsibility of starting to live sustainable, it may seem hard but its not at all! There are so many little things that you can do that would help. One way is to grow a herb, vegetable and/or fruit garden, so this way you don't have to go to the store to buy your foods. As a class we grew a herb garden, than we were assigned to go home and make a meal using them. On the video below you can see that I made Guacamole and Chicken tacos. The cilantro was freshly picked from my backyard along with the lettuce.

Guacamole

Ingredients:

2 Avacados
1/2 Tomatoes
1 Onion
4 tablespoons of cilantro
1/2 tablespoons of salt and lemon pepper

1/2 Serrono Chillies

Chicken Tacos

Ingredients:(can very to your liking)

Ground Chicken

2 Tomatoes

1/2 cup of cheese

small head of lettuce

sour creme

1 avocado

salsa fresco

Start living a more sustainable life!

Growing our own herbs in class was easy, however keeping them alive was a difficult task. Once we got a hang of actually watering them everyday all we had to do was harvest them. In order to pick cilantro correctly you must pick off the leafs making sure you do not remove any of the stem than place them in a damp napkin; to keep it fresh of course. Before this project I didn't realize how lazy I was being when it came to living a sustainable life, I wasn't fully informed and no body stressed the importance of "going green" to me. Now that my eyes are open to the possibilities of what could happen to our earth if we don't change soon. I take fast showers, get my supply of vegetables and fruits from my own garden and make sure everything is unplugged before I leave the room. These are just a few things that you can do to help our earth.

How did it taste?

The Guacamole was really good, better than any store bought I have ever tried. On the other hand; the tacos were not the best. I believe that the reason why they tasted horrible was because I didn't have cheese and put to much lettuce and not enough Tomatoes, however I'm glad i still attempted to make the meal. I hope this project will open my eyes more to the cooking world.