Cooking is a really important life skill and everyone needs to know how to cook. through this experience, I learned how to make dishes from Indian cuisine everyday and helped my home cook in cooking food. Through this experience I was able to learn the basics of cooking, the types of ingredients that make up a certain taste and how to use them to get the best results.

This experience taught me a lot of things and helped me how to make food efficiently. The strengths I discovered were that, I was able to learn the tastes of different ingredients quickly and I was able to identify which ingredients were used based on the taste. Another strength I discovered was that I can make the dish easily when given the recipe. The weakness I discovered was that, I was not able to remember the different recipes I learned and because of that I had to constantly look at the recipe to complete the dish. I am working on it by practicing making it every day. Learning recipes is important because I won’t have the recipes with me every time and if I want to make anything I won’t be able to make it.

The thing that was challenging was that the process was really time-consuming as it was my first time trying such recipes. This was hard to overcome and I was only able to overcome it through practice, even though I still lack that level of precision and time management when it comes to making food, I have been able to overcome that challenge by a lot since when I started. Through this experience, I was able to learn time management skills which is important to make anything you do time efficient.

To learn efficiently and understand the role of ingredients as well as different cooking methods, I divided my tasks based on difficulty levels. I divided the one month I learned cooking into several parts and the first was to understand how ingredients taste and how they can be used. The second part was making simple recipes, the third was understanding cooking methods, and the last was making complex dishes. This is how I made a plan and completed my CAS experience.

Through this experience I gained a lot of new knowledge and skills which are important for surviving and through the use of these skills, I will be more time efficient and productive.

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