Sophia Eagle's Blog

Link to Original Project -  Click Here For this assignment, I chose to revisit this work because I felt there was more I could delve into in terms of the choices I made and the connections I could draw between my experiences and those of the people of the past. As one of the replies to my initial post read from Sydney Slate, in the modern day where food is once again becoming a symbol of wealth, exploration of food in time periods where wealth disparity was as extreme as it is today can make us feel, as she puts it "closer to the lower class." In this revision, I wanted to understand more about that closeness and explore it further, in addition to delving deeper into my fellow classmates' ideas about this project and their work that they completed this semester.  Exploring my classmates' posts, I particularly enjoyed reading one by my classmate Myra Montoya. Her post was from the same assignment I completed, though she chose to make something called Oven Cakes. Her re...

  I decided to prepare Frittars of Eggs and Herbes from the archives! I chose this recipe because it seemed similar to other meal preps I make for breakfast. I thought I could make enough for me and my sister's dinner, and then have the leftovers for the rest of the week. I wanted to be sure that the recipe I chose was one I wanted to eat.  Here are my ingredients gathered. I want to point out that I added thyme and sage, in addition to using dried oregano which I rehydrated, because I already had it in my cupboard.  In addition to the recipe which took little prep, it was cheap because it was made of ingredients I already used, and I added some micro greens. These were not part of the recipe, but I needed to use them up and I wanted to beef up the recipe because I wanted it to last me a few days.  Here is a picture of it in the pan! I was getting tired because I had come home from work and I hate cooking after a long day, so I did not end up forming individual "frit...