Description:

Our schools offer a range of art activities like cooking, drums, guitar, vocals, dance, and visual arts. I have opted for cooking in which we cook some traditional meals along with some western dishes. Cooking is a skill which will help anyone when he/she is living alone and has no one to cook for him/her. Cooking as AS helps me to understand the importance of the activity and helps me learn new recipes which I did not know before.

Reflection:

LO 2: Demonstrate that challenges have been undertaken, developing new skills in the process

The most challenging part for me while cooking is knowing the recipe properly and not making silly mistakes. Cooking is an art and it needs the practice to perfect it. We have a time slot named AS in our school, it’s where I started my journey of cooking. Cooking is something which I have recently learned which is why I find it difficult to cook some complex recipes. In our cooking classes, our tutor gives us instructions about how to cook and the proportion of the raw material used. I overcame these simple challenges by practicing more and cooking at home and school both. I am very glad that I know how to cook because it is a survival skill.

LO 4: Show commitment to and perseverance in CAS experiences

Cooking in school under my tutor’s guidance and cooking at home or at a friend’s house is very different things. I need to do my best when cooking at home because I am still learning and make mistakes. Showing commitment and perseverance is important because even after some failures while baking a cake you need to keep going on and not give up. Because if I do give up then I won’t be cooking anymore. We learn from our mistakes and same is the case with me. I learned from my mistakes and now I think it is safe to say I can cook a few dishes without any problem from 2-3 cuisines.

LO 5: Demonstrate the skills and recognize the benefits of working collaboratively

Most time cooking I have not cooked alone, either my mom or my friends or my aunt or my tutor. So basically cooking might involve working in a team. Cooking collaboratively has its ups and downs. Firstly you have an extra hand while cooking so less burden to do all the work by yourself. Teams work faster and work gets distributed. Also, one disadvantage is that people might have different styles to cook the same dish and they also might do something which wasn’t supposed to be done.

Final take away:

I really enjoy cooking and making new dishes as much as I enjoy eating new dishes. Teamwork and commitment goes into the art of cooking. Also you have to have passion. I also learned a new survival skill which will help me in the future when I am alone and I have to cook myself the food everyday.