Mushroom Ravioli with boneless chicken breast.

I was wanting to make some pasta but wasn't sure what kind. After looking up some recipes I decided to make Mushroom Ravioli with chicken breast. I went to Trader Joe's to buy all the ingredients I needed. It was my first time going there and I honestly thought it was going to be  expensive but I was wrong. This was my first time cooking this meal and I had some help from my mother who I shared it with. This meal took me less than an hour and everything that I used was low on sodium,carbs etc which i think it taste much better. I think its good to shop in Trader Joe's because the food quality is great and the prices are too.

What you'll need to make this meal is:

- 1 package of Fresh thin boneless/skinless breast.

- Mushroom ravioli with truffle sauce

- Soy Sauce (reduced sodium)

- Extra virgin Oil

- Alfredo sauce with romano and parmesan cheese 

- 1 red, 1 yellow, and 1 green peppers

- half  onion

- half clove of garlic

To cook the chicken breast:

-1 teaspoon of paprika, 1 teaspoon of blackpepper, 1 teaspoon of oregano and 1 teaspoon of cumin

-2 teaspoon of trader joe's reduced sodium soy sauce.

-2 cloves of garlic

-half of an onion

- 1 teaspoon of vinegar (your choice).

- 2 teaspoon of extra virgin oil.

For the mushroom ravioli's :

- 4 cloves of garlic

- scallions

- chopped green and red peppers

- 1 teaspoon of olive oil

- 1 teaspoon of soy sauce

- half of the Alfredo Sauce

I really enjoyed making this meal and I felt like I was eating healthier. I probably will consider visiting Trader Joe's more often.  I see this project fitting into the theme of the course because other supermarkets sell food that are concentrated on hormones and preservatives and those are the kind of food we look for, but we don't realize that organic supermarket have better qualities and which is much healthier and to me it taste much better. My mother also agreed she enjoyed the meal as well.

The Final outcome : Mushroom ravioli with chicken breast

Blog Entry 14

                                         “Bottled water is more convenient”

 People think that bottled water is more convenient than tap water because it comes sealed. We don’t recognize that we don’t have the money to waste on bottles of water all the time. We love to spend money on unnecessary things why spend money every day when you have a cleaner drinking water at home. We are confusing disposability with convenience whatever we see first that’s what we’ll take. We don’t realize that by buying these water bottles we are harming our world. I think that’s the reason why we are having so much global warming and so many destructions. People feel that a bottle of water is safer than tap water just because these companies brain wash us with their lovely looking bottles. We don’t even know if these bottles are being recycled the right way or not. As said in the passage it is more convenient to re- use the bottles we buy and just fill them with tap water which I think it can be a great idea. The less plastic we see the better the world will be. When I used to live with my aunt I remember she used to go to BJ’s every other weekend to buy 2 or 3 packs of bottle water until one day we started realizing that the one of the bottles had brown small particles it looked like mud to me. Bad came to worst her husband had drank from the same pack and he had gotten sick from the stomach. After this incident she decided to buy a filter which to me was a better idea and which I thought it was much healthier for us. I think that in order to expose these water bottle companies we need to stop buying them and show others what kind of disaster they have created.

Blog Entry# 13

Children don’t really know what is good or bad for them. Most kids prefer candy and or junk food than a healthy home cooked meal. The advertisement of junk food, candies, sodas etc has gotten out of control and something must be done. Children see these advertisements almost everywhere they go especially in school. What is sad is that kids are suffering from adult diseases at such young ages when they shouldn’t .The Council of Better Business Bureaus is trying to cut down the advertisements. My question is what can the own companies do to stop this situation? Will they be nice enough to care and do something?



I do understand that candy can be pleasurable for most of us especially the young ones but too much candy can increase the sugar level of a child; which it is not healthy. When I was a child I remember seeing vending machines just full of candies in each floor and there used to always be a kid buying a candy or a drink most of the time. They now are agreeing not to advertise these products in schools and in places where there’s kids. As mentioned on the New York Times “Obesity among the young has become a health emergency, and the rates of diabetes and other adult diseases among American children are national scandal”. This is a very critic situation, kids suffering from diseases which we mostly see on adult and it’s very upsetting. My opinion is that kids should be thought to eat healthier because if not the situation can get worst. When children consume too much junk food or candies not only are they prone to suffer from a disease but they tend to get very hyper. I think companies do take advantage of this situation because the more children consume their products.

Also as mention in the passage critics warn the companies which are merely attempting to police themselves before a Democratic Congress does it for them, of coarse these companies won’t want this, that can lower their product vends much more. Most of these companies want to just sell their products and keep doing what they’re doing but they are not realizing that this is affecting our children’s health. I also think that a way of lowering obesity in children is with the help of their own parents. I think parents are the key to stop this situation they should educate them and teach them the good foods they need to eat in order to be healthy. I’ve also seen some commercials against these junk food advertisements telling the parents “ kids are what they eat” meaning if they eat healthy they will grow up with no type of complication but if all they eat is junk the problems will start at an early age. When a child eats healthy their learning ability can increase, but if not they will feel very lazy and they will do poorly in their activities. The solution these industries have is to cut down the advertisements, the less children see it the less they’ll want it. Overall kids younger than 12 don’t know what they are consuming is good or bad, so that is why those products should be cut down.

In conclusion, kids don’t know how much this can affect them and their health. Children don’t deserve to suffer from a disease just because they don’t know how junk food can affect them.  Companies should start cutting down the advertisements starting in schools and parents should start educating their kids into eating a right healthy meal.  

Blog # 12

According to The Meatrix website the food that we consume is not safe.

Blog# 11

The Meatrix shows the meat consumers how farm animals are treated before being killed. The way factories treat these animals with such cruelty. Just like in the movie The Matrix there is a real world and a world under lies. These animals are not even allowed to walk, all they feed them is hormones and they maintain them on antibiotics to prevent them from having infections. Unfortunately these animals are all put together in the same spot to have more space but these people don’t realize that these animals can get infected with horrible bacteria’s. While some people are against these kind of actions others are in favor, they want these animals to suffer giving them ways to have a growth level more increased therefore the consumers buy these kind of meats thinking they were just raised in a healthy way when it is not true. Once an animal has a bacteria and a human consumes it no matter if the meat is cooked or not the bacteria can get transmitted to someone’s body in an instant but the industries don’t care as long as their product is being purchased and people are consuming it they are fine with it. In The Meatrix they’re trying to stop the animal cruelty but in real life is hard to do so when people don’t motivate themselves in helping.

Blog # 10

My experience with the tutor was worthy. She really helped me a lot with the mistakes I was making and explained to me where I was lacking the most. I was a little confused with the claims and reasons but she told me a way to pick them up a little easier. She helped me with blog entry 9 and I knew there were mistakes everywhere, she helped me fix the mistakes and now once I read it is much clearer and understandable. I hope we do get more time with the tutors before the CAT-W because it is easier when you have someone looking over and helping us fix our errors. It is a BIG help and easier to catch up before the big day.

Blog # 9 Argument Essay

Red pill or blue pill? Is ignorance bliss? As shown in "The Matrix" Neo had to decide if he wanted to continue living under lies or was he able to handle the truth. The red pill contained the truth which was hidden from everyone else and the blue pill was just going to bring him back to what he thought was reality. Sometimes I wonder if we can all handle the truth once is really revealed or would it be hard for humanity to accept it just like Cypher?. I think God only knows what kind of mystery we are all living in.

Sometimes I feel like we all are living like “The Matrix”, under so many regulations and disappointments, somewhere where no one knows the truth, and we just try to live day by day. Like for example on the passage there’s  a question stated by the author Christine Cornell “Why do we want to know the truth?” and I ask myself the same question why do we? I understand no one wants to be lied to but how can we find out what is the truth, if what we believe in is really a fact, it is hard when everyone just lie threw anything and has different believes. Also, there is some people who don’t care what reality is they rather live their life even if what their living is not the real actuality.Cypher's view was the same, he pretended to care for himself and his partners but at the ened he had the courage to betray the people who were like family to him. He showed that he couldn't handle the truth and he thought that the right way was to ignore reality.

 In reference to another movie called 2012, they show the viewers things that we are experiencing now, but how did they all know this?. Everyone is full of questions which can’t be answered with a correct response and that’s very unfortunate because we should all live by the truth and we should all have clear minds. In my opinion I think these movies are coming out to give people a hint of the lies we are living in, to give us a clue's of what we’re living in , it is so obvious some people want to open our minds and makes us think beyond a mere myth, but we don’t want to realize how many lies are surrounding us. As mentioned before I would’ve taken the red pill because I believe we have the right to know the truth no matter how difficult it can be to live it. Neo believed The Matrix exist at first but once he knew the truth he felt doubtful about what he was seeing and I think people would feel the same because everyone has their own beliefs not everyone will trust and believe.

In conclusion in my opinion we are all living under many lies, and others are making us believe in things that might not be true, everyone has different believes and no one is in control of changing your way of thinking, but I do believe that we’re living under too many lies and I know sooner or later the truth hopefully will come out just like in The Matrix.