Fourth Of July Fun! by Eleanor

I am back again, again! I have read "Bo At Ballard Creek" for the second time. It was very fun. 

My favourite chapter is called "The Fourth Of July." The main character in the book is Bo. her family isn't a family like your regular old family, she has two Daddys who she calls Papa and Papa. They're not a gay family, Jack and Arvid are work partners who work together and decided to raise Bo together. Bo's mommy walked away, kind of like a turtle who walks away from her turtle babies or turtle eggs.

The book is set in Alaska after the gold rush, in the late 1920's. They always have bannock and donuts on the Fourth of July, because the 4th of July is America's birthday. Yay, America! The whole town used to make the celebration happen. There was no committee or anything that would bring the food, everybody brought their share. They brought their share, they got their share! Bo's Papa Jack was great cook and he used to make 400 donuts and bring them in a wheel barrow!

We made donuts and bannock with my Dad. it was great fun, but my Dad accidentally deleted all the pictures. Just imagine the pictures of me and my Mum and Dad and Sophia and Amy cooking bannock over a campfire. We made bannock like the picture above here. This is how you make bannock, first you make the dough and if you want to put in different flavours you add things. we made berry bannock, fancy cheese and rosemary bannock and regular bannock. The reason they had bannock is because there was a large Inuit community in Ballard Creek. 

We twisted it into ropes, and wrapped it around sticks like the picture above, and we cooked it over a fire.  I loved it! Then we also made donuts and it was really fun, but our house STANK from the smell of the hot fat (or lard) we cooked them in.

We made little circles with cups out of dough and poked our fingers through to make holes and then our Daddy plopped them in the hot lard. You had to get the oil at just the right temperature, so the outside didn't burn but the inside was still cooked. The first few donuts weren't perfect but they were edible, and delicious.  The amazing scientific thing that happened was that the dough was so flat at first, and all of a sudden, POOF! it was nice and thick. The donuts would also start to float when they were ready to turn over. After they were cooked we let them dry for a while and then we put them in a paper bag of powdered sugar and shook them up so they were covered in powdered sugar. (I honestly liked them better without the sugar.)

Thank you for listening, I suggest making donuts and bannock yourself, and reading this book. They are very good! Bye!

Tasty Treats Girl Guide Badge by Sophia

This term I have working on my tasty treats Badge for Girl Guides.

I had to 1) bake two loaves of bread.

I got a book on bread making from my school library and made some delicious white bread it was so yummy it got devoured in a period of two days. Then i baked a second batch and brought some to my Girl Guide meeting so all my friends could have a taste too

2) find a no-cook dessert recipe and try it

A little while ago, I found a good recipe for a fruit smoothie in a cookbook my sister had gotten from the library. I tried this recipe out with my family and it turned out to be very delicious.

3) choose a traditional holiday treat that is meaningful to me and make it for my family.

My sister, my Granny and I made English trifle at Christmastime for my family. There is a recipe for it in the brochure below.

4) discover treats from around the world and develop a recipe book (or in this case, a pamphlet) to share these treats.

Below is the brochure I made of recipes from around the world, including my Granny's English trifle. try some for yourself.

5) Find a recipe for a frozen dessert and try it out with your friends or family.

My brother and my sister and I, made frozen yogurt. It looked a lot like ice cream and tasted like ice cream, but it melted way faster than ice cream. However it was still fun to make.

6) Explore the presentations of desserts in magazines or at restaurants, and try your hand at presenting one yourself.

 I've seen several good food presentations in magazines, cookbooks and cooking shows. One of my favourites was one I saw for vegetable sushi. They used some of the ingredients from inside the sushi on the plate to make the sushi appear more appealing. On another cooking show, I saw an ice cream dessert being presented with crushed cookie crumbs around the edges to "frame" the dish. My friend Miranda, my sister and I made a chocolate peanut-butter banana. For our dessert, we took a banana, cut it up, presented sitting in the peel, prepared two sauces, one chocolate and one peanut butter, then drizzled both slices over the sliced banana and added some to the plate to garnish. Viola! One perfectly presented banana!

P.E., more Math, More Science, More Art & Fine Arts & More Fun!

Hello, I am Princess Eleanor and this is the random column of quite a few of the subjects I have done this term.

Here I am doing math, mathy, mathy, math. Thank you, Jenkins. See my workbook and my million dollars video for other details, thank you very much, Jenkins.






This is me taking a nice old walk.  And this is me coming back from the swimming pool with my best friend Saoirse and I have not eaten yet so I am grumpy. Below on the left, is a picture of us walking in Gastown, and on the right is me, my friend Judah and my little brother Pax playing on the snow on mount Seymour. We hiked on My. Seymour too, and we love to dance for exercise. This is us have a dance-off with our family at New Year's too. Sophia and I do all this exercise together.

 

This is me, Eleanor, at Science World. When I was studying structures this term I learned about forces on structures. This is electrostatic force acting on my hair and I look ridiculous!

This term Sophia (everyone must who Sophia is, my most cherished/weirdest and only sister in the world) and I did some art lessons with my Moaike. She taught Sophia and I about lights and angles in drawing and sketching. I also did some sculpting with plasticene in Sunday school.

I also am still doing piano lessons and Sophia is doing drums.

This is me dancing with one of the displays at the Burnaby Village Museum. It's a great place to learn more about the settlement stuff I have been studying with Ms. Hannah for Social Studies. I did a scavenger hunt there too!




I also received a subscription to a cooking magazine called Chop! Chop! which is all about inspiring kids to cook healthy food and eat with their families. This is me making and eating a French stew called Cassoulet. It was AWESOME!