Genius Hour: Passion Project

During the last several weeks of Term 3, we have started 'Genius Hour', within that `Passion Projects`. A past blog post was published several weeks past, giving an overview of the process.  He has completed the project that we were working on--life-sized sculptures. The idea of the character that we made into the sculpture came from a Japanese Theater-- Kabuki--the character 'The Beast King' was one of great designs, and so, of great interest. The costume included an extravagant display and great visuals. The project was finished in the duration of the first week of the current term.  A slide was also created to detail our experience and intricacies of the project. It was an immense experience and effort for the team, though it was exuberance. 

Courtesy: MartyGrossFilms : Lion Dance

Slide:

Passion Projects: Discovery (Finale)

29th of November, finally after many days and weeks of planning and practical work we have come to the end of making our products. It was a tiring time as we made a lot in a limited time, making it harder than it should have been. Though our work has seemed to pay off, one of the reasons is because it turned out a bit better than we thought it would, maybe not all of the products, but most, which was fine with me and my group. We changed the original flavour of the panna cotta instead of vanilla, we chose for the final day of practical work, a mango cheese flavour; which is a turn towards what we originally thought about which is putting mozzarella cheese with the panna cotta.  We also added cinnamon and mango puree to the synonym rolls which are now called cinnamon-synonym rolls; also we fried the cheese sticks and then baked them as well with even more cheese.

It was almost kind of perfect, however, we had this thought about making a mango shake but it didn't go as planned with it being too liquidy because we didn't use ice and also the mango didn't break enough so it became lumpy.

I wish we could've changed some bits, mainly the mango shake; by bringing ice and letting it blend more than it did.; Another thing is that the texture of the panna cotta with the grated cheese wasn't quite the best idea because it gave it that rough but then very soft texture which felt weird in the tongue.
Nonetheless, it exceeded our expectations, that goes to show, you don't know until you try!

Passion Project Progress

This time while doing our passion projects we finally perfected the sweetness of what a panna cotta needs to taste like. What we need to do now is just to make all of what we have made so far (plus mango shakes) in the days that we have been doing passion projects. Which includes, "synonym" rolls, cheese sticks, panna cotta and the last one, mango shakes. Though we are excluding the PanDeSal because it takes too much of our time and it doesn't look that appetizing by itself.
It has been an exciting and adventurous time so far, but also a bit tiring sometimes. Though the outcomes and the knowledge that we took from this experience are as treasured as diamonds.

Passion Projects: Discovery

As you may know, these past weeks we have been working on our passion projects which were explained in the previous blog post. The products that we started we kept a secret, now is the time for the reveal! Well at first we had two ideas we had in mind and it was on Monday, November 19 was the date that we started to practice making one of the two ideas. The one that we started was Burratta with mozzarella cheese sticks and PanDesSal; however, making the Buratta was a bit of a fail and it becomes too rubbery. After tasting it we decided that we will take the Buratta out and just make the cheese sticks and the PanDeSal; in that, we added mango puree in it to make it more fruity and "healthy".
Today in passion project we did the next dish(Panna Cotta) along with the ones that were practised on Monday. The ones that we practised on were pretty good and better than we did though, Khush(Which was a part of my group along with Vann and Ranit), forgot the mango puree! (It wasn't really a big deal). None the less the Panna Cotta turn out fine, yet it was too sweet(I can even taste it now after hours of tasting it). Now in the next session, we will be making the Panna Cotta not too sweet and also make KHUSH "remember" to bring the mango puree.
Here are some pictures and videos of the process of making those dishes:

Passion Projects

For this term, we started to do passion projects, in which on Mondays from period 3 and all of Thursdays we will be able to do projects about subjects that we are passionate about. We had to choose a category where that subject will be. There were several categories that we had to choose from; we had our first choice, second choice and third choice which were just for cases where the first choice that we've chosen were full. Luckily 3 of my friends has been put the category that I was put in as well and that is Discovery. It featured and the part of science from physics all the way to foods. Well being passionate about food and being from the "Culinary Capital of the Philippines" I lean towards food. Discussions were made and not long after my friends got intrigued by it as well. 

After some conversations and disputes, we decided to discover the world of mozzarella. Some creative thinking after we thought about making two dishes one a snack and one a dessert, however, the name of those dishes will be kept a secret.... for now.

Here is a log book to keep track of what we have and will have to do: Log Book