PERSONAL PROJECT EXHIBITION

After making a plan, defining my goals and the criteria and researching relevant information, I entered the action phase and started working on my final product. Although my final product is a recipe book, I had to do not only writing recipes, but actually cooking and taking some pictures of the meals as a part of my goal is learning and developing my skills in cooking. Therefore, my action phase started with cooking the meals I chose to include in my recipe book. My initial plan was cooking everything first and writing recipes after that, but on the half way, I realized that I can use time more wisely if I start writing a recipe when I'm done with making that meal, so in the middle of September, I was still cooking, but writing recipes at the same time. 
Another change I made in this action phase was adding extra contexts in the book. Initially, I was planning of just putting recipes and pictures, but when I began making a recipe, I thought that it is better to explain about the seasonings I use to the readers, because many of them are Japanese and people might have never heard of. Also, I wanted to include how to cook rice, as rice is used in many recipes but I expect that most readers do not have rick cookers at home. When I finished cooking and writing 10 recipes and achieved the criteria I set, I still had time to add a few more, but instead of adding extra recipes, I chose to include "seasonings" and "how to cook rice" pages for readers to be able to understand everything easily. 
When making an actual recipe book, I typed everything on my laptop, then printed them on A4 papers and put them in a folder to organize. Since each printed page was too simple at the beginning, I used stickers, highlighters,  and tapes to decorate my recipe book.