Gingy!

Okay.. so im not a fan of ginger and all. In fact, i hate ginger. BUT this is considered an exception cause we made gingerbread house! Wheeee~ FUN!

Actually, a group of 4 people were supposed to come up with one gingerbread house, but then cause there were very little of us who came to class, we made 1 house for everyone! It wasn't hard to make one really, you just need to make the dough, shape it, bake it and finally assembling and deco of course!

When we were about to start, we were all like let's just keep it simple and nice, and everyone agreed. I mean simplicity is the best beauty! Nothing can go wrong with it. So after that, work was distributed to everyone and soon enough, we started our work.

The templates includes basics, such as base,walls,roof,chimney,doors,windows,gates,stairs and much more. We were all very much surprised to how long it takes to make this! We started at around 11.30, we finished at about 4! We even had to skip a class for this! Luckily the lecturer was only giving out answers for last class' answers then everyone was dismissed. So now, allow me to show you our final product!

Term 5 Kitchen Class 6

Sooo... I had my kitchen class like usual every week. But what made this week so special that i decided to talk about it? Well to start with, our starter was risotto and main course is duo of duck. Sigh i lost my mood to talk. But anyway, yeah... So for the risotto i decided to make pumpkin risotto~~~ No not the one where it is literally orange in colour and looks like baby food. Yuck noo... I cubed the pumpkins and throw it in. For duck i made confit of duck leg and pan sear the duck breast.

Yeahhh........ risotto was a disaster. There was only ONE (1) small pumpkin for the whole class and in the end i only got like 3 regular dice size. Imagine that. Then my risotto was overcooked. I know that it had to be al dente but i had no idea al dente for risotto was THAT hard. II IS suppose to feel like it's not cooked (literally). Plus the stock was damn salty and thus my risotto was ultra salty, even tho i did not season it.

Lastly, i add 2 spoonful of parmesan cheese. I guess that was my fault, in the end it got cold and become stone hard! HAHAHA~ oopsies...


But on the bright side, my main course saved the day. For the side dishes i made roasted cherry tomatoes, spinach in cream sauce, blanched asparagus and sauteed tournee potatoes. Oh my god don't even make me start on the potatoes. In the beginning of the class. I had NO potatoes. Literally! In the end i got 3 mini sized potato which fyi was about to go bad. Yeah...not pretty.

So anyway, that day miracle happened. I was the very first person to serve my dish. Usually i'd be like the centre or one of the few last. So yeah it was kinda awkward but happy. When i served my plate, chef was like "WOAHH... if you do this for your finals... you surely pass. Guaranteed!!!" Like obviously i was damn happy la~ Hahaha... He said i had a lot of improvements from my previous class. And hopefully i would eventually improve from time to time! =]

Chocolate + Bananas = ???

HIHI! Gosh it's been so long since i last wrote here. Teehee. First of all, i would like to wish everyone Happy Chinese New Year. To those celebrating and to those who's not. Next of is i got back to Medan for the New Year (i know. again). But it's a big family reunion. MY sisters,brothers,cousins, and even family that i do not know of. LOL.

So the main point of me babbling and talking here is to show y'all my new creationnn.... Behold~ Chocolate Banana Cake..... Tarrah~



I don't really have anything to say. Just wanted to update moi blog.

Hahaha~ Well to those curious. I made this with Sacher Torte Recipe. I know i was suppose to just use sponge recipe. But i realized i don't have any. So yeahh...

But it tastes quite nice and banana-ey. Since i added mashed bananas to the mixture. But it kinda made the torte kinda hard. So yeah note to self. Kay buay~ See u at the next post! :D

Term4 Kitchen Finalssss

Aloha~ How are you?? Hope you doing goooood~ Anyways, i had my kitchen finals last week. Truth be told i was quite nervous at first. One cause it's finals. Two cause we are doing solo on that day. So yeah

But after quite some time i was quite getting the hang of it. But then, when it's time to cook, everyone was like super panicking including moi of course.

So anyway for starter we were supposed to make prawn salad with asian dressing. Main course was duck breast.

So for my asian dressing, i basically infused the oil with ginger(bleh), wild ginger flower, garlic, and honey. Then just let it infuse there. Tossed the salad with the dressing and voila~ blanched the prawns. Oh and as an addition, i poached a pear. =]



Main course, i seared my duck breast, oven-baked. And i tried smoking my duck. Well it was successful. But the down side is it's overcooked. Bohooo :'(
And also it literally like smoke, cigerattes. At least i think that's what it taste like. LOL

As a side i cooked risotto, cherry tomato confit, sauteed french bean. For sauce i tried making a chimicurri sauce(parsley,oil,garlic). But then it kinda failed cause i didn't blend the parsley fine enough. So yeahhh.... And like usual, i forgot to take a pic of my main course. LOL :(

Comments by chef:
- Poached pear was cooked BUT not sweet enough. Sweetness must be like diabetic sweet =/
- Prawns blanched purefectlyyyy ^^v
- Cherry Tomato okay. cooked
- Sauce not fine enough
- Duck overcooked. Idea okay
- French bean overcooked T___T

So yeah, chef said improve myself so that i could graduate with flying colors. Hahaha~ Anyway i will try, no promises! =]

FHM 2011

Soso, as some of you may already knowwww....... Malaysia has an annual competition called the Culianire Malaysia also known as FHM(no idea what it stands for). But yeah, so anyone who is interested to join is welcome to. Taylor's made an opening to all the students here, but not all would get accepted. They have to undergo interviews and if they do get accepted, they have to go through a a series of trainings.

So anyway, not only participants needs to go through interview, even though you just wanna be a commis, you also need to go interview and everything. Plus my final exams are on the competition date. 20 September-23 September 2011. So i chose not to apply. But thenn, one day one of my chef asked me to be a commis for eelynn. Who is joining the competition. So without a doubt i said yes. Cause he chose me, which means i don't even to go through all the interviews.

So yea.... training has started since last week and i have been helping as often as possible. It was very tiring i am not gonna lie, and i have to go back so very late at night. But it was worth it after all. I had fun. LOTSA FUNNN..... Anyway i really wanna post up the pictures but i'm afraid i can't. So yeah..... I'm gonna post it AFTER the competition! See ya then! :D

Menu 6

Few days ago was my kitchen class. Menu was chicken breast for starter and red snapper for main course.

For starter it wasn't stated that we must make a salad. So we made chicken wellington. By we i mean me and Francis by the way. Chicken wellington with a side of salad. Tossed with honey-mustard vinaigrette. Which fyi taste super duper AWESOME! I can't believe it actually taste that good. Our chicken wellington tasted good even though we sent it like 10 minutes late, cause francis was kinda slacking at first. I told him i think you should start cooking the chicken, but he was like nahh that's fine, plenty of time. So yeah.




We were very organised on that day actually. I can feel it. I was like WHOA.... WE ARE NEAT! LOL. For main course the snapper must be grilled. The silly thing is we don't even have a griller. Closest we have is a griddle. So lame.... So anyway we grill it for colour then oven bake to cook. OH OH and i tournee potatos. For me it looks quite good. I'm quite impressed with what i did. YAY MEEE~~~ <3

Menu 5

Last 2 weeks on friday our menu was chicken mousseline.

I was partner-ing with sayaka on that day. And sayaka was the one stuffing the thing. So everything was going very nicely and smoothly until three quarters of the way.



Sayaka was stuffing the chicken and she panicked suddenly. "sally sally sally what do i do what do i do??? I was like okay sayaka chill. BREATHEEE..... she was so panicked. She accidantelly slipped and broke a hole on the chicken breast. So the mousseline was leaking out. I told her its fine, no prob, we can just poach it instead of pan-fry and we did. But in the end everything went quite okay. Taste was good.





Oh one thing that annoys me is that i made tuille on that day, but i forgot about it. When i sent out my main course already i remembered. I was like oh gosh! MY TUILLE!!!!!! when i took it out, it was burnt. Sighhh......