Yesterday, I decided to go visit my mentee Saniah at Port Richmond High School. On our first visit to the high school, Mr. Ryan said Monday’s were the “boring” days since they only reviewed the recipes and this had to be done before any cooking actually began. Remembering this I was very skeptical about going on a Monday thinking it would be boring. Well I was wrong- I actually learned so many new things that I was able to bring back and use next time I cooked.

This week’s food was knish. Mr. Ryan took the recipe from allrecipies.com and this particular recipe was titled Sarah’s Knish Recipe. I found this to be very interesting because the Thursday before going to PRHS, my group did a presentation on the Rogarshevsky family who made knish as a regular dish in their family when they immigrated here from Lithuania. One very important thing I learned from this visit to Port Richmond High School was that you must read the recipe thoroughly before beginning to make the food. Mr. Ryan explained to the class that there are both two different cooking oils and sugars used in this recipe and that if not read correctly the students may use the wrong one and mess up the recipe. I am really looking forward to returning to Port Richmond High School on Friday to see how this dish turned out!