Amanda Probst - Journal - Six foods & a blow torch

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Hi. I'm Amanda...a happy wife and mom to three awesome guys. We've lived here in Fort Collins for more than 20 years and are proud to call it home. Before moving to CO, I worked at a city attorney's office, making use of my law and Master's degrees from Duke. After settling in Fort Collins, I homeschooled my three (now teenage and older) sons and was delighted to experience music classes, soccer, karate, swim team, archery, Science Olympiad, First Lego League, parkour, and climbing (not all at the same time!). From 2005-10, I was also a contributing editor for a national scrapbooking magazine, authoring a book and a couple of monthly columns. From 2009-10, I founded and ran the Good Grief Blog. I enjoy learning new things, spending time with my family, volunteering with The Matthews House, traveling and indoor rock climbing.

Six foods & a blow torch

Monday, March 5, 2012 at 07:40AM

Guess what we did over the weekend...

(The pic on the far left is a slice of cheddar cheese. On the far right...being boys, they all ended up burning things in the backyard, lol.)

Yeah. We do potentially questionable things in the name of science. ;) You see, our fourth annual NCHA science fair is coming up. For his project, Micah (who's been so loving his weekly cooking class at Options) decided he wanted to learn to make creme brulee...mostly so he could use a blow torch. Being as I love creme brulee but so rarely have any, I was in favor of this particular project. ;)

For the project, itself, we ended up using our new propane blow torch from the hardware store (no little baking torches for us, no siree, lol) on six different foods and Micah tasted them both before and after to see how being burned changed the flavor. Not really the most scientifically sound experiment or anything. But, hey, he's six...Nathan got to buy a blow torch...and I got creme brulee. ;) Everyone wins!

(More on Noah and Asher's projects later...I don't have any pictures of the prep work that happened over the weekend...)

Amanda |

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