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Title of Book: Polynesian Dance Festival

Author: John Hart

Genre/Text Type: School journal (Artical)

Date Read: 19th Feb 2020

One paragraph about the basic details of the text

This text was about a cultural Festival of School students that perform their cultural dance that was a
Tongan war dance in the school area and shows how they get prepared and what costume they used.

I chose to read this text because I am interested in getting to know other people's cultures. 

One Paragraphs about interesting details

One interesting/important character/event/theme/language feature was the Traditional lafo that are
made from lafo seeds, which grows in Tonga and the performers used them and tied them to their ankles
because it makes loud clicking sound while dancing to get audience attention.

A quote/evidence that shows this is, Mal e lelei

And I think this means Hello

This relates to me/interests me because it is the Tangon language.

A paragraph discussing links between the text and yourself, the world or other texts

I can relate to the main character’s Taniela Teutau , he was the leader of the Tongan dance. And he was
helping his friends because he was older than them.

The character Taniela Teutau reminds me of my friend that she was also the leader of our cultural group
dance in our school.

Blueberry Muffins

 Ingredients:

2 c flour
4 ts baking powder
1/2 ts salt
1/2 c caster sugar
100 gr melted butter
1 c milk
1 egg
1 1/4 c blueberries

Method:

First we preheat the oven to 220 c.
Then we sifted the flour in a large bowel the we added the baking powder, salt and caster sugar in it. After that we melted the butter in small bowel in MW for 1 minute. we put the milk and egg in other bowel and added the melted butter in it and mixed them well. then we added this on flour, baking powder, salt and caster sugar and then we added the blueberries in it and mixed them but not over mix.
After that we brushed the muffin tray with butter and put the 12 medium muffin tins in it then we placed the mixed ingredients in to it.
Baked it for 20 minutes but we should not let it to overcook or under cook. it should have nice colour not too dark and not too light.
When it cooked we let it to get cold for 10 minutes.

lemon or orange syrup cakes

   Ingredients:

125 gr soft butter
3/4 c sugar
grated rind of 1 lemon or orange
1 egg
2 T orange

1 1/2 c flour
1/2 c milk
1/2 t baking soda
1/2 baking powder

Syrup ingredients:
1 orange thinly sliced
1 c sugar
1 c water

  Quality of ingredients:

For checking the quality of ingredients we should check the date and its expiry. And for orange juice the orange should be fresh and good colour.

  Method:

First we preheat the oven to 175 C and let it get warm. Then we melted the butter and brushed the tray with melted butter for cake.
After that we soften the butter in microwave and put it in a bowel then we added the sugar and mixed them well to become fluffy after that we added the egg in to it and mixed them.
Then we took other small bowel and placed the baking powder and baking soda in it and we added the milk in it and mixed. after mixing them we added the orange juice and flour and mixed them with mixture then we put that in the bowel off egg, sugar and butter.
Then we put the mixed ingredients in the moulds and we baked it for 20 minutes.
After 20 minutes we checked it if it's cooked or not. we put a knife in to cake for checking it's cooked or not and if the knife was clean and had no liquid on it it's cooked and the colour of the cake mast be light not too light and not too dark.
We left the cake for 10 minutes to get cold after that we sliced that to pieces and placed that in a plate.

Method of making Syrup:

We sliced the orange into thin slices. After that we added the water and sugar in a small saucepan and dissolved the sugar over a moderate heat and boiled them for 10 minutes.
After 10 minutes we added the syrup on top of cake.

Easy Chicken Pad Thai

   Ingredients:

  1: 200 gr thin Thai style rice noodles
  2: 1 cup raw chicken breast or thigh meat, sliced
  4 tsp garlic, minced
  1 spring (green) onions, sliced
  fresh coriander
  1/2 cup chicken stock
  1/4 tsp freshly ground black pepper
 
  Marinade for chicken:

  3 Tbsp tamarind paste dissolved in 1/4 cup warm water
  2 Tbsp fish sauce
  1-3 tsp sweet chilli sauce
  3 Tbsp brown sugar
  
 Quality of ingredients:

For checking the quality of noodles first we should check the expiry date. And for quality of chicken first we should check the expiry date and after that the smell, that it should not have bad smell and also colour is important for checking of chicken quality.

Method:

 First we put some water in a pot and put that on stove when it was boiling we placed the noodles in it and we left it for 10 minutes to cook well.
In this 10 minutes we made the pad Thai sauce by mixing the sauce ingredients together in a bowel. and mixed them till it dissolved.
After that we took the chicken and cut them to small pieces and put them in a bowel. after that we put 2 tbs oil and garlic in pan over medium - high heat and fried half of an onion for 1 minute then we added the chicken and marinade in it and fried them well.
After 10 minutes we turned off the stove for noodles and we drained and rinsed through with cold water and placed that in a bowel.
When chicken was near to fry we added few Tbs chicken stock and we kept adding till 8 to 10 minutes to chicken pieces cooked.
After that we added the pad Thai sauce over the noodles and we used two wooden spoons and mixed them well.
After mixing the noodles and Pad Thai sauce we added them in chicken pan and fried them for 1 to 2 minutes. After 2 minutes we put the meal in bowels and added some green onion on top of it.

Chocolate Brownie

Ingredients:

250 g unsalted butter, melted
125 g (1 cup) cocoa powder
500 g (2 cups) caster sugar
1 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
5 eggs
100 g (3/4) plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
100 g chocolate buttons

Method:
First we preheat the oven to 180 C.
Then  we melted the butter then place that in a large bowel after that we added the cocoa powder and mixed it well then we put the caster sugar and vanilla in it and mixed it well after that we added the eggs. then we blend it together until smooth and creamy.
Then we added the flour and baking powder again we mixed it well.

After that we took the tray and put the baking paper in it then we added the mixed ingredients in it and added the melted chocolate buttons after that we placed that in oven and bake that for 40 minutes.
After 40 minutes we checked if it is cooked or not. For checking that if its over cooked or under cooked we had a look on its colour and we took a knife and put that in cake and when we brought it out it was clean and it had not any chocolate on it and we understood that its cooked.

Then we cut it to small pieces and placed that in to a plate.

chelsea bun

      Chelsea Bun.

      Ingredients:

1. 2 cup self raising flour
2. 1/4 t salt
3. 30 gr butter
4. 160 ml milk
5. 30 gr melted butter
6. 1,5 t cinnamon
7. 3 T brown sugar

      Quality of ingredients:

 For checking the quality of ingredients, for those that have date we should check the expiry date.
And also we can check their smell and appearance.

      Method.

First we preheat the oven to 200 c because it should get hot till our ingredients get ready.
After that we put the flour and salt in a bowel then mixed them and then we added the milk and some butter and mixed them well to change to a dough.

Then we roll the dough until it gets to a large shape and thin. Then we mixed the brown sugar with cinnamon well. after that we brushed  the dough with melted butter and put the mixed sugar and cinnamon on it then we rolled it and cut to 12 pieces. And brushed the cake tin with remaining melted butter then place them in to the cake tin then we put it in oven and cooked it for 20 to 25 minutes.

For checking if its cooked or not we checked its colour and we put a knife in to it and if the knife come out clean without dough its cooked but if the knife has some dough in it its not cooked .

Thai Pollock curry with egg noodles

 


     Ingredients.

1. 400 g Pollock
2. 200 ml coconut milk
3. 250 ml fish stock
4. one tbs brown sugar
5. one tbs Thai fish sauce
6. 2 tbs Thai red curry
7. 200 gr egg noodles
8. one limes
9. one small onion

     Method.

First we were checking the quality of ingredients like, fish should be fresh and for checking the quality of fish we should check its smell, colour and softness.
And for checking the quality of other ingredients also we should check the smell and colour and also their expiry date.

 Then we took a frying pan and put some oil in it and put that on stove when the onion fried we added the fish stock and mixed them well then added the Thai red curry, coconut milk brown sugar and mixed them and wait till it boils after that we cut the fish to small pieces and added them to the curry and waited till it cooked.

For checking if its cooked or not we should check its softness and stiffness like for checking the fish we pushed a knife in it and if the knife goes easily in to it its cooked but if not it does not cooked.

  After that we put a pot on the stove and the water in it when water boiled we put the egg noodles in it and waited 12 to 15 minutes till it cooked well. When noodles cooked we spilled its water and put the noodles in two bowel and add the curry in it and add little lemon juice in it and we put a leave of coriander on each bowel to have nice presentation.