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Lord’s Kitchen – week 1 Omelettes

The new Elements class began the course with the omelette challenge, which tests students organisation, working practices and heat control on the hob. After working in pairs to make their omelettes, we all judges them and decided which were the most professional looking. The winners of the first Cjhef of the week award went to Natalie/Alyssa and Chloe and Anna, as both pairs made restaurant standard dishes After this we then started to look at knife skills and we made a batch of carrot and coriander soup, that served 100 people

ESF Chef – Round 1

Just before we broke up for CNY, the food rooms are buzzing with excitement as the first round of the newly named ESF Chef took place. The Juniors work together in pairs formed with in their houses from Y7-9, with each house selecting 2 pairs were given the brief to make a funky vegetarian dish in 45 minutes. This gave great scope for creativity and some superb dishes were produced, including a  tofu 4 ways, quesadilla, bean burger, and pasta dishes   However the winners for the first round were Yash and Alessandro (9W) (Last years ESF Junior overall winners, who make a curried tofu filo parcel Also going through to the next round in 2nd place is Rachel & Nicole (9W), in 3rd place Bridgette & Krisha (8R), in joint 4th place Jordyn & and Anya (D)/Natalie and Tricia (7F) and in the final spot top sneak through was Alina & Leone (8E) The seniors were up next working individually, with the the simple brief of the perfect risotto in 45minsnt there was no room for mistakes and Charlotte in 10W ran awaty with teh win, as she not only made the best risotto, but it was ...

IB Food students visit Nood food for an expert appraisal of their final products

Today the IB Food students, Claudia and Tiff visited Nood food head office in Central,for an expert appraisal of their final products. Tiff had designed a Oat, Chia, Mango, Berry Energy bar and Claudia a vegan/gluten-free spiced pumpkin tart. Nood Food’s Head innovation chef Moises kindly gave up his time to feedback on the products and see the improvements they had made since he appraised them in the development stage. The constructive feedback will really help them finish their major projects and he suggested lots of constructive ideas for further developments. The students said “it was great to make the project more realistic and, like we had a start up business”. . Many thanks to everyone at Nood food and Pure for their help in this project and their continued support for the Island schoo l  

Creative Dessert Challenge

This week, Lord’s Kitchen students were put in random groups with random sweet ingredients and were given 2 hours to make a fine ding dessert. We saw a selection of ice-creams, mousses, crumble, waffles, cheesecakes, doughnuts, purees and garnishes being made after the student had spend 15mins brainstorming. It all then started to come together for the individual plating and presentation. Mr Rappel came top judge the work and decided on the best group, being Alex, Justie and Alicia and the best overall presentation to Momoka and Chiara P. well done to these Chefs of the Week

Lord’s Kitchen Week 6 Pasta week – Chefs of the week Chiara, Natasha, Ian and hannah

Pasta week in Lords Kitchen saw some serious skill, with many students challenging themselves with ravioli making and complex sauces, on top of making and rolling their own dough. Chefs of the week went to Hannah for researching an innovate way of making ravioli, using a chocolate mould, Ian for making the best tagliatelle i have tasted in years and Chiara and Natasha for their professionally made ravioli using homemade ricotta and homegrown basil