Healthy Eating - Rice Paper Spring Rolls and Steak Sandwich - Home Economics

For both our practical sessions last week and this week's lesson we had made a steak sandwich, and rice paper spring rolls. 

Steak Sandwich

Ingredients: 

• Thin steak
  
• Lettuce
• Tomato
• Sauce - Tomato/BBQ
• Garlic
• Oil
• Cheese
• Salt & pepper
• Bread buns

Appearance:

The appearance of the steak sandwich looked very appetizing, because of all the colors from the lettuce, cheese, tomatoes, and meat. But since we had plenty of ingredients, the sandwich's ingredients were all piled up. But it looked pretty nice, for that one mistake, I think I would rate it an 8/10.

Taste & Texture:

It tasted very flavourful, the meat was nice and juicy but it was very chewy, I think the sauce made it taste better. I think I should've added more cheese, because when I did taste some of the cheese. It seemed to taste a lot better FOR ME, so if I added more cheese I think I would've liked it better. 10/10

Evaluation:

My total evaluation for the meal would be a 10/10 because I didn't mind the appearance because it tasted rather delicious.

Rice Paper Spring Rolls 

Ingredients:

• Rice paper
  
• Lettuce
• Bean sprouts
• Carrots
• Cucumber 
• Cellophane noodles
• Sweet chili - (optional for dipping sauce)

Appearance:

Honestly, it didn't look very appetizing because the rice paper was clear and it was just filled with vegetables. In my opinion, I would have added meat to make it look more appetizing because some people don't like vegetables. I folded mine a different way from the instructions, that's why it looked a bit better. Because I fold my spring rolls a different way, we even displayed the spring rolls nicely. (thinking it was going to be delicious)  

Taste & Texture:

It didn't taste very good for me, it was cold, it had not meat it was just stuffed with vegetables. The whole thing was raw, even the rice paper was raw. The texture was very weird the noodles were sort of only halfway cooked so they were hard to chew and hard. So I would rate this a 5/10

Evaluation:

My total evaluation for this dish would be a 5/10 it was tolerable, I wouldn't say it was bad because I was able to eat it. But I don't think I would be making this dish again, maybe it would've been better if there was meat in it. Or if we were allowed for it to be cooked, maybe more flavor? I just think if I didn't follow those instructions and did it my way, it would've been better. But of course, food is food so I can't say I don't like it, it's just that it could be improved. 

Question for today:

Do you like spring rolls?