Friday 6 March 2015

Floating islands.

Floating on cloud 9 and on meringues too. Best thing I've ever baked!! Super proud. 

Have you ever poached meringues?? It tastes amazing!! Today we made floating islands at culinary school. We even made custard (obviously it's not called floating islands for nothing) today was the first time I had ever made custard and I must say I was proud of myself because the consistency was perfect and it wasn't too sweet, it was just right!! I got full marks.  It wasn't any powdered nonsense that some places serve you. I never thought I'd basically eat raw egg whites (well poached in cream for 4 mins on each side - but I did and i really did enjoy it and who wouldn't eat all the custard they made? It was to good to be true. Loving my experience at Cullinary school!! Should I post the recipe for you? Comment below and let me know!! 

Tonight we went for sushi and guess what? They brought those big black dustbins into the reasturant while we were eating and it was Infront of the kitchen. I was disappointed as I normally go there often! I think that was my last night there. Learning about kitchen hygiene has taught me so much!! I have become so concious about what I see and where I eat my foods now a days - it's a good thing thought! Thanks to Capsicum I have learnt a lot and there's so much more to learn! 

Well that's it from me everyone! I hope you all have well rested night!! Check the pic below to see what I made today!! 

Wednesday 4 March 2015

Cook, bake, study repeat ..

Hello bloggers. 

Today I didn't attend culinary school as I was feeling really sick and I wouldn't want to work in the kitchen being sick and make everyone else sick as well. 

Since I was basically home alone I decided to cook a lovely chicken dish - I found this recipe and it's really yumm!! It's called chicken a la Monique? Nothing special I guess or popular/well known. 

I'm studying today because I found out our test has now moved to tomorrow instead of friday.. So I've been studying all day at least! 

️Anyways, I thought I would just blog something during my little break. Here's my chicken dish!  

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Tuesday 3 March 2015

Seocnd time in the kitchen at culinary school!!

Today, we baked. We baked till we dropped, my back got sore, we washed so many dishes but I love it! 

I learnt a lot today, we made poached egg, and poached a pear. We also made a walnut brittle and a chocolate ganache to go well with it! Oh yes, before I forget - we also did some sugar craft for the first time! Many of these students are experienced in many things in the kitchen! I'm still learning. 

Let me show you what we made!! 

Decedent chocolate cake.

I had an order on Monday for this KitKat cake from an lovely old lady and she is the sweetest thing ever. She actually ordered it for her daughter, Tina for her 50th birthday. I loved making this cake! Being a chef and trying to stay in shape and skinny is hard work!! Everyday I get to make delicious treats which I have to taste to see if it's perfect or not! 

Saturday 28 February 2015

Peppermint marshmallow skies.

Chocolate lovers!!! 
recently made the most devine chocolate peppermint marshmallow oreo slab! 

I made it for my classmates at capcisum! Everyone loved it! Personally, I don't enjoy peppermint but in this slab I made - it was amazing!! 

Here is a picture for you to see! Let me know what you think about it. Comment below. 

Friday 20 February 2015

GIANT KITKAT CAKE!!!!

This is by far my favorite cake that I've ever made!! I won't lie, It took about 5 hours due to the lack of the oven useage - we only used one oven for a 5 layerd cake and cooked one cake at a time! 

Thank goodness for help that day! 
This cake is pretty expensive as you can see - we have ferror rocher chocolate with kit kats AND whispers!! 

Everyone told me how lovely the cake not only looked but tasted too!! Which obviously is the most important part, ofcourse appearance matters but taste matters more!! 

This cake was a mixture of chocolate, red velvet and blue velvet! Yummy xx 
And the blue icing as they had requested.