Sweet Potato Soup: The New Taste of Fall

For this weeks learning project I wanted to keep moving in the direction of making restaurant quality meals at home. I thought my previous post I did not execute as well as I wanted to with the overall appearance and taste of the cookies I tried to make. I wanted to make up for it this week. In my first post I shared a video from the life of David Goggins and theme from that video is being able to overcome adversity when things go wrong in your life. I sit on a throne of privilege to say my adversity from last week was my cookies did not turn out the way I wanted but I am trying to see any form of adversity as an opportunity to learn and grow.

I talked about in my last post of overconfidence bias and how we often over estimate our abilities to do things. For this week I wanted to embrace a humble mindset and just do my best not thinking about the end goal but just enjoying the process. I watched a video this week on what is actually like being a chef in a restaurant. The Chef was talking about how much pressure it is do actually be a chef in a professional setting. You have demands from the customer to have perfect meals, demands from the cooks around you with more experience, along with physical and mental demands too. I kept that in mind while I am doing the project for this week; knowing I just get to do it for fun so I am just going to enjoy the process.

My wife is a big fan of coffee shops and some coffee shops are known for their great tasting soups that they make day in and day out, so like a good husband I thought I could try and bring that experience home to her. Fall is soup season so what better way is there to spend a Friday night then making some delicious soup. I was pretty bold in my title caption saying that sweet potato soup was the new taste of fall so put the pumpkin spice latte down and try this soup! Here is the recipe:

I enjoyed using the Splice video editor the last cooking video I made so I used it again it is super easy.

 

 

Application for learning and my learning:

I think that I was overconfident in my last recipe I tried which was the reason I made some mistakes and they didn’t turn out quite how I wanted them to turn out. I reflected on this slowed my process down focused more on the process than the outcome and found out that it helped me to create a really awesome soup. I was proud of how it turned out and it felt like it was a step in the right direction for what my end goal is. I added some education to my process as well with reviewing a video I used at the start of the project along with watching a video of a professional chef. Doing this helped me respond better in a sense that I can overcome adversity, and alleviate the pressure I was putting on myself to be able to cook at a professional level.

Application for teaching:

I think that recognizing there will be times where students will face adversity in their own lives either personal or in the classroom and the need to respond appropriately. I think there is a level of encouragement that needs to take place to help them respond appropriately but also extending grace for maybe hard things that they are going through. Encouraging them to “stay hard” which is one of David Goggins moto’s probably is not the best way to help students. I found this article to be helpful in building resilience in students.

Have any thoughts you’d like to share let me know in the comments below!

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