Jessica Garrett

Ms. Tillery

British Lit comp.

20 March 2012

Cook Book Full Sentence Outline

I. Introduction – who doesn’t like Italian food, from pizza to spaghetti; everyone loves it. Hi my

name is Jessica Garrett and I am a senior at Creekview High School. For my Senior Project I

developed a cookbook of Old Italian recipes that have been passed down from generation. I

choice this as my Senior Project because I want to make Old Italian recipes come to life.

II. Body

A. My senior Project was based on Italian cooking, so I needed to research about Italian food and

the traditional Italian history.

1. First I wrote a paper about Italian food.

2. I researched three main Ideas about the history of Italy, Italian families and the food

they eat.

a. history of Italy- Italian cooking has been influenced by diverse groups of

people, historically and in modern time. While there are many differences between regions and

between households within region, the concept of Italian food would not exist unless there were

many similarities as well.

b Italian families-. Italian families hand down their family recipes and traditions

for their future generation so they can pass along the family recipes. It is an important rite of

passage for the women of the family to carry on the original recipes of their ancestor and to not

share the secrets of these foods. People that come to America carry along the tastes and

sometimes also the seeds, recipes and ingredients of their homes.

c the food they eat- Every Italian region has a tradition of its own with regard to

Carnival, Easter, Christmas, and other holidays. Italian family’s also love to cook big meals for

their families and friends to enjoy and get together to celebrate.

B. there were several steps I had to take to get to my final product,

1. Find a facilitator- when I chose to make a cook book I already had in mind who I wanted

for my facilitator. My project facilitator is Teresa Laucella, She grew up in Nusco, Italy and

came to American when she was nine years old. She has had a job cooking for the past fifteen

years. She is a chief at a private school in Alpharetta. I choice Teresa because she has such a

passion for cooking that impressed me. She had to cook for her nine brothers and sisters and also

her Mother and Father.

2. Decide in recipes for the cook book- We sat down and started to choose which recipes we

would use for the cookbook. I chose which recipes that seemed most interesting to me that I

wanted to learn how to cook them. However, there were some recipes Mrs.laucella that did not

want me to include in the cook book because they were very meaningful to her and she only

wanted to share them with family.

3. I tested the recipes

a. Stuff Shells

1. 1 Box of barilla jumbo shells

2. 2 Pounds of whole milk Ricotta cheese

3. 16 oz whole milk mozzarella cheese (shredded)

4. ½ Gratted cheese

5. ½ te spoon Black pepper

6. 3 jumbo eggs

7. ½ te spoon of garlic powder

8. Table spoon of salt

9. ¼ cup of chopped fresh passly

Pasta

1. Boil four quarts of water

2. Add 1 table spoon salt

3. ¼ cup of oil to water

4. add pasta cook 12 to 15 min

5. mix all ingredients for filling in a large bowl

6. Fill shells with table spoon

7. Put in large baking pan cover with marinara sauce

8. Bake at 350 for 45 min

b. marinara sauce

1. 1 can of crush tomato 16 oc.

2. ¼ olive oil

3. ¼ canola oil

4. 3 cloves of garlic

5. Sauté’ garlic and oil

6. 2 16 once cans of tomato sauce

7. 2 8 once cans of tomato paste

8. 1 table spoon of garlic powder

9. 1 table spoon oregano leaves

10. Fresh basil 4 to five leave

11. Fresh parsley

12. I tea spoon of crush red peppers

13. Salt and pepper to your liking

1. Using a medium saucepan heat olive and canola oil, onion and garlic.

2. Sauté’ for two minutes

3. Stir in 1 can of 16 ounce crush tomato’s

4. Sauté’ for 5 minutes

5. Stir in 2 cans of 16 ounce tomato sauce and 2 cans of 8 ounce tomato paste

6. Sauté’ for 20 minutes

7. Cook at medium heat

8. Add basely, oregano, salt, pepper

9. Cook at low for an hour

10. You can meat or Mushrooms

4. Plan how to put the book together

After I finished the recipes I started looking into publishing. The challenges we had were: price,

time, format, and distribution. Creating the book in IBook’s Author, and then publishing it to the

IBook’s Store became the easiest and most effective solution. Using IBook’s Arthur to create the

book helped us format and keep a good track of everything. Once the book was finished, we

were able to view it and test it on our IPads before publishing it. Distribution was a huge

deciding factor for using IBook’s. Publishing the book to the IBook’s Store cost us no money

and allowed us to simply share the book with family and friends.

C. I faced some challenges during my project.

The two challenges I was faced with were time management, and measuring ingredients. While

cooking the recipes we chose, she would throw the ingredients in without measuring them. We

spent extra time measuring everything out and double-checking the ingredients. This held special

significance to our project because Teresa’s recipes were not document or documented in Italian

until now.

D. I learned several things from doing this project.

Creating this cookbook was a very fun learning experience for me. Some of the things I learned

were proper ways to cook, keep the kitchen clean, make dishes from scratch, and proportion food

for a large Italian family. Doing this project has given me some insight into the Italian culture

and has helped prepare me for the future.

In conclusion, everyone should learn how to cook one or two of their favorite meals that they

could share with their friends and family. I have learned how to cook some of my favorite meals;

however, I would not like to pursue culinary arts as a career. I would like to pursue a career in

childcare. I just want to say Thank you to Teresa Laucella for all her help. I definitely could not

do it without her. She is a very good friend to me and I appreciate her so much. I also want to

thank you judges for taking time out of your day to come listen to my speech.