expositionPREPARED BY: Jazreel Dela Paz
EDITED BY: Michelle Mendoza
Chocolate Chip Cookie
Who have never tasted this indulging cookie? Cookies that make many people crave for. I guess everybody had a taste and even a smell of it. Every one of us is familiar with it. We usually visit a bakeshop just to avail it. However, have you ever tried baking a chocolate chip cookie all by yourself? And for some reason they were a complete flap because they were dried up and brittle, too damp and powdery, or perhaps they had an appalling taste? Well, try this recipe and who knows it might be the best cookie you have ever tasted.
There are certain things that should be done before baking. You should first gather all the ingredients needed near you, where you can get it easily while preparing the food. Also, remember to clean all the utensils that you will be using. Don’t forget to wash your hands with soap and water. It is also a must that the food that you will be doing should be germs free.
To make 28 large cookies of about 4 ½ inch in size, you will need the following: 3 cups of all-purpose flour, 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda, 1 ½ teaspoon salt, 2 sticks or 1 cup of unsalted butter, melted and slightly cooled, 1 ½ cups of packed light brown sugar, 1 cup of granulated sugar, 3 large eggs, 1 ½ teaspoons of vanilla, and lastly 2 ½ cups semisweet chocolate chips.
In preparing chocolate chip cookies you should follow the following procedures carefully. First, put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 375°F. Line 2 large baking sheets with parchment or wax paper. Then, whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt in a small bowl. Afterwards, beat together butter and sugars in a large bowl with an electric mixer at high speed until pale and fluffy, for 2 to 3 minutes. Lightly beat 1 egg with a fork in a small bowl and add 1 3/4 tablespoons of it plus 2 remaining whole eggs to butter mixture, beating with mixer until creamy, about 1 minute. Beat in vanilla. Reduce speed to low and mix in flour mixture until just blended, and then stir in chips. On 2 baking sheets, scoop 1/4 cup batter for each cookie arranging mounds 3 inches apart. Flatten mounds into 3-inch rounds using moistened palm of your hand. Form remaining cookies on additional sheets of parchment. Bake, 1 sheet at a time, until golden, about 13 to 15 minutes. And lastly, transfer cookies to a rack to cool and continue making cookies in same manner using cooled baking sheets.
Baking stuffs, like chocolate chip cookies, can be fun. All you need is a little imagination, time and passion in doing it. The food will become more scrumptious if you do it not as a duty for you to do and being pressured by the time but instead an enjoying experience. A step-by-step process should be followed carefully and meticulously in order for it to be successful. Except that, this doesn’t mean that you don’t need to have this great love for baking and cooking. You should combine all these aspects in order for you to come up with a perfect output in baking and in cooking.
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PREPARED BY: Monica Espineda
EDITED BY: Nicole Firmacion
My Big Family
Have you ever dreamt of having a very big family or even wished to have many sisters and brothers? No need for me to dream or even wish for such a thing because I already have one. I lived with their irritating noise but the good thing is that when I'm lonely, their noise always brings me joy and laughter.
I came from a big family. We are nine children and I’m the ninth, the youngest. I have five brothers and three sisters. My mom had nine siblings unlike my dad who is an only child. Maybe this is the reason why my dad opted to have a big family.
Having been raised in a large family, I experienced many good things with them. When we're all together, we can’t help it but to chat and those chatting will eventually lead to the bursting of laughter. It is also a good thing to have them to whom I can share my happiness, my sorrow, my achievements and even my failures. With them, I can get my strength and pursue on my dreams. It is a pleasure for me to feel their love and support in everything I do. It is also happy to think that the joy and achievement of one becomes the victory of all.
Happiness is not forever specially when living with a big family. Adversities come. Problems within the family never die. There are some misunderstandings that occur which usually starts with a simple joke that becomes too personal. One thing more is that you cannot control their noise, which is too much that annoys me. Aside from that, having a big family requires one to have a big budget, so it is not advisable to have outings even once a year.
Inspite of all the odds, it is truly satisfying to have a big family. I believe that I am truly blessed to have them for they are the people I truly treasure deep in my heart. Too large, too costly but full of joy, full of love and full of blessings.
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PREPARED BY: Ian Barrido
EDITED BY: Jamie Bernardino
How to Solve a 3x3x3 Rubik’s Cube
Have you ever played with a Rubik’s cube while getting frustrated with not being able to completely solve it yourself? Have you ever seen others twisting and turning the surfaces of the cube so briskly and gracefully wishing you could do the same? How do they do it? There is a process in solving this puzzle and with practice, putting all the correct colors back in place would be a cinch. I will discuss in general the steps needed in order for all the colors of the cube to match correspondingly. You must complete the bottom layer, then the middle layer, and finally the top layer.
First of all, you must complete one surface of the cube which would later become the bottom layer. This is done by choosing a center piece and putting the corresponding colors next to it making sure that the edges of each piece matches the colors of the center pieces adjacent to the surface of you are completing. Once this is done, the four corners should be completed also taking note of all the colors adjacent to your bottom layer of the cube.
Next, the middle layer of the cube should be completed. Holding the cube with the surface you just completed at the bottom, you should be able to see an upside-down letter “T” on all of the four sides. Each piece matching piece should be put into place to complete the second layer of the cube without messing up the previous solved surface.
Once that is completed, all that you would need to do now is complete the top layer. A cross on the top surface must first be made with its edges’ colors matching the center pieces of those in the middle layer. Once this has been done, the four corners should be moved to their respective places and finally twisted to match the remaining colors of each surface of the cube.
Solving the cube may sound like a simple thing to do, however, you must first learn the process and practice it for yourself to master the art. It may be a challenge to obtain the skill of solving this but you will find great joy in your achievement.
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PREPARED BY: Erin Alfonso
EDITED BY: Anne Dizon
Dreams and Daydreams
“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night, in the dusty recesses of their mind wake up to find that it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.” That quote was by Thomas Edward Lawrence, which clearly tells us the difference between a dream and a daydream.
A dream is a collection of images that one sees during sleep. But, a dream could be more than that. A dream could show experiences, and even predictions of what might happen. But we cannot control our dreams. We cannot dream about something we want to when we are asleep.
A daydream, on the other hand, is close to conscious thought, and we can usually choose whether to have them or not. They can be a very creative tool and may help to calm a troubled mind or bring to awareness creative ideas and solutions to problems.
When a person says that it has been his dream to achieve something, he means that he daydreams about it, because a daydream is something that we can put into action. Many successful people have daydreamed of what they want to achieve before they actually get it. Many problems have been solved because of that. Many writers have thought of a story because they daydreamed – because they imagined.
Thus, we could all act out our dreams. If we want to achieve something, we must work hard to get them. Daydreams may be fantasies, but we all have the power to turn that fantasy into reality. We were all given the ability to imagine, and make that happen. Always remember that what you imagine is always powerful.
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