Taylor, Gabe, and Livy's Cooking Show!

Why are we growing these herbs, you ask? Well, there are multiple reasons as to why. The first one is that growing these herbs at school urges us to grow our own food at home, kind of like the Dervaes family. Growing food at home makes it so that we are more sustainable in the fact that we do not have to add pesticides to the air or hormones to our food, which pollute the environment. Many people are not aware of this, and if they knew that the food they were buying from Vons, Albertsons, etc. were polluting the environment, they would make an effort to stop buying from places like them like we have. Another reason we grew our plants is because if we broadcast our effort to live more sustainably, like we are doing so with these blogs, then maybe other people that read our blogs would be motivated to live sustainably themselves. These two reasons combined should answer the two essential questions "Why aren't people living sustainably? And how can we convince them to do so?”

How did I creatively incorporate my herbs into a tasty meal? Well, Taylor Cook, Livy Solis, and I had the idea to make a cooking show that demonstrated us using our herbs, in addition to other ingredients, to make meals that we personally ate. Since our herbs were not ready to be harvested off our plant, the cayenne peppers were still green, we decided to buy our herbs. I got grounded cayenne pepper and used that in place of a real cayenne pepper in my salsa.

Taylor's ingredients for guacamole:

Livy's Ingredients for carne asada street tacos:

My ingredients for salsa:

And now for the Taylor, Gabe, and Livy's Cooking Show!!!

Once Sony Vegas stops being mean and renders our movie correctly, I will link the whole cooking show together.

After we were done cooking, we had to try our food, no matter how doubtful we were of how good it would taste. The guacamole came out a bit sour because we had an unripe lemon, but everything else turned out better than we thought it would. The street tacos tasted amazing, and the salsa (which none of us had faith in since it looked HORRIBLE while we were cooking it) was just phenomenal. I took home a bit of it because it turned out so good. Behind the scenes of the cooking show, we blended the salsa and added a LOT more cayenne pepper, and that seemed to make it that much better. Overall, the food came out really good, better than we had anticipated. And on a side note, we cleaned all this up with a Sham-Wow, and they do NOT work as well as they do in the commercial, lol.

Credit to the Carne Asada Street Taco recipe goes to Rubios, the guacamole was Taylor's mom's own recipe, and the salsa that I made was found at http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/001776simple_salsa.php


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