7F Salad project winners – Seasons Salads
Well done to all the team members from the Seasons salad company, who won the best business idea and product from 7F. Their summer salad concepot was both delicious and healthy, as well as having brilliant branding, packaging and marketing materials, including a really nice promo video
Sponge cake Stra baker – Andrea, Valerie, Elizabeth and Charlotte
Sweet indulgence sponge cake week gives a l ot of scope to try out different ideas after students learn about the function of the cake making basic ingredients. The winners stepped up the creativity with Valerie, Elizabeth and Charlotte collaborating to make a superb greedy unicorn cake. Also Andrea ws awarded the accolade for her unique take on a marbled chocolate and banana loaf cake, which was a absolute delicious.
8R Salad project Winners – Lewi, Howard, Sophie Chi Hoe, Austin Deevesh Bo Yun
Well done to to Lewi, Howard, Sophie Chi Hoe, Austin Deevesh Bo Yun from 8R, who won the the salad business project today. T^heir company designed a rainbow fruit salad and branded it as “The way of Life’ Salad company, had the nutrition analysis, marketing and packaging.
8F Pizza Buisiness challenge winners
Well done to the students in 8F (Johnson, Renee Lo, Renee Leung, Kit Kit, Denise and Lachian) who were the first winners in the Food Life Skills Pizza Business Project. the students collaborated to come up with a new concept for a pizza business. they each had different job roles tr design and produce their pizza business, including manager, chef, marketing, branding, nutritionist and finance and they came up with a Business called Pizzzazzz, with a brilliant Eater themed pizza. A special mention has to go to Renee Leung who showed amazing talent and understand of the design process in designing the logo and mascot Bob the flying Pig.
IS ESF Chef Final 2019
This year the final of the IS ESF Chef final was probably the most challenging brief yet, with the students been tasked to make a plant based main and dessert in 1hour 45mins. The atmosphere was friendly but tense as the students worked there way through the different techniques in making their dishes and getting them presented for the judges, but it got much more frantic as the timer ran down. This year we had the following judges The Chef and Manager from POP Vegan restaurant in Elgin Street, Alvin from Magic season Organics, Mr Loggie and Jennifer Frawley (last year senior winner and Viva Sheth (Vegan IB Food Science student), so a great range of experts and food enthusiasts.
Chilled dessert presentation challenge – Star bakers (Katya, Maria, Henry, Valerie, Charlotte and Emma)
Today in sweet indulgence was a test of the students artistic plating skills. they had to make either cheesecake or panna cotta and serve it with a sauce and garnish and then do three different plating styles. They then decided which was the best presented and put that through to the final judging. Ms Walsh and Ms Lucas Timpany came in to judge the desserts and decided that Katya, Maria, Henry, Valerie, Charlotte, Emma had produced the dishes to the most professional standard and were all awarded star bakers
Eggs Benedict Challenge – Chefs of the week Stephen, Claire, Yanisha and Jennifer
Well done to Stephen, Claire, Yanisha and Jennifer who were awarded chef of the week in Lords Kitchen this week for having the best working practices and the best presentation of their eggs Benedict
ESF Chef Semi Final 2019 – Seniors
The Brief for this years ESF Chef Semi Final 2019 was modernised street food, giving the contestant a vast scope of potential foods they could cook and we got a mix of sweet and savoury from all over the world, corn dogs to faux shark fin soup.
The judges loved the way the students approached the brief and each dish had strengths and weaknesses, but they had to decide on the three finalists for the 3rd April.
In 3rd place was Victoria Van De Pol (N) for her Greek doughnuts
2nd place was Wai Lam Yau (N) for her Lammingtons
and winning again was Charlotte Wong (W) for her Fruit Tacos
Many thanks to Michelle Hughes (Business manager), Doris Chan (trainee food teacher0 and the aMZING y13 BTEC Hospitality students who judged
Choux Time Star Bakers – Jacklyn, Charlie, Elizabeth, Valerie, Lisa and Audrey
Sweet indulgence took on the Choux Time challenge this week. All students were given the same basic choux pastry recipe and the students had to+decide on size, shape, fillings or decorations. There were profiteroles and eclairs galore and deciding on Star baker was very difficult, but eventually Doris Chan and Mr Lord decided Jacklyn had the best rise to her pastries, Charlie, Elizabeth, Valerie had the most creative flavor with their pretzel, chocolate and salted caramel and salted and Lisa and Audrey and the most attractive decoration
Junior IS ESF Chef Competition
The 2019 competition kicked off today, with 12 teams competing for a place in the top six spots. Each team was given a mystery box with chicken and four other ingredients of their choice, from carbohydrates and vegetables. With only ten minutes to plan, the teams were under pressure to come up with a dish that would not only impress the judges, but also cook within the one hour time limit. It was impressive to see the varied ideas and dishes that the junior teams managed to come up with. In the end, Natalie and Chelsea scooped the top spot with their Chicken tacos, followed closely by Charlotte and Valerie’s ravioli.
Many thanks to our judges and congratulations to the six teams that made it through to the second round.
5 Sara Adyanthaya Leyla Bauti 1 Chelsea Air Natalie Shiu 4 Rachel Sheary Samantha Lester 6 Elizabeth Ming Jenny Lau 2 Valerie Man Charlotte Man 3 Liron Perlman Tristan Wang
