Things that need to be considered when cooking!

Last week it was my father's birthday so the good daugther that I am I thought i would cook my dad's favour meal for dinner. This was going to be a very challenging task for me as I had never cooked roast pork before in my life. I have cooked many roast chicken before so I thought it can't be very different to that. I got the pork out and prepared it to put in the oven, I read that this particular pork took about 2 to 3 hours to cook. So I really needed to get this into the oven nice and early for it to be ready when I wanted it to be. I then had time to kill so I thought I could prepare the vegetables and leave them covered so they are ready to put in the oven for around 45 minutes to cook. As I was peeling the carrots, potatoes and kumara I realised that this might not be such a good idea because the kumara was starting to go a little bit brown so I had to put them in water. It was now time to put the vegetables in the oven, I oiled them up so they would not stick to the tray and poped them in the oven. I checked on my pork at this stage to the crackling on top had not gone crispy like I'd hoped at this stage. I used a trick that I had learnt from watching the television series My Kitchen Rules and cut the crackling off and placed it on a tray. Back in the oven the pork went which was looking pretty good at this stage. 10 minutes until everything was ready I put my crackling back in the oven on the top tray closest to the element to crisp up. Now the last thing to do was to make the gravy I did this whilst my dad carved the pork. I got the juices that came out of the pork and added some water salt and pepper, chilli powder and some cornflour, brought that to the boil until it was thick. Everything was now ready .. now all we could do was taste test.

The first practical consideration I had to take into account was how long each aspect of the meal took to cook so that it would all be ready at the same time. The second consideration I had to think about was I was working in my dad's kitchen so I had to check that I had all the ingredients and the appropriate equipment needed to be able complete the task. The third consideration I had to take into account was when I prepared the vegetables, this I did a bit to early so it lead to a change in the plan that I originally had. Another consideration that I had to take account was the space in which I needed to complete this activity, because most meals need to be prepared in the kitchen so I needed one of them. The final consideration I had to think about was do I have a plan B if something goes wrong, it was only when something went wrong I thought of this. In the case of the crackling and the vegetable I was able to think on the spot and come up with a new solution to fix the problem.