Island School ESF Cshef competition 1st round (Senior) – Winner Jennifer Frawley (12F)
The ESF chef competition got of to a great start at Island school at Island school on Friday, with 2 competitors from all six houses being put through their culinary paces with a creative challenge. Students took in in turns to pick from either cooking chicken or salmon or hallouni, then had a range of carbohydrates and vegetables to pick from. They then had one hour to create a dish to present to the judges. The standard was extremely high and with only 6 places in second round, so was the tension. After much deliberating the scores were in and Jenifer Frawley wasbnamed the winner with her sweet and sour creation.
The final placings of students going through to the next round were’
Sweet Indulgence magazine winners – Katarina, Natalie and Catherine
Well done to Katarina, Natalie and Catherine who produced the most professional and magazine to collate all of their groups cakes, pastrieds and desserts from the Sweet Indulgence Elements course. It was obvious that they had combined all their skills and used prior learning form past elements courses, such as Photography and Writers Block. We will now be looking into get their groups magazine published so it can sold at school fare and events.
Lord’s Kitchen “Tasty Style” Video – Winner Piya Hardasani
Well done to Pita who won the “Tasty Style” Video competition in lord’s Kitchen this Elements course. Her Korean Pork Sliders were fantastic and she edited the video together very professionally
Check it,out here and give them a go: https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=zpB4YUZcsIM
Lord’s Kitchen (Textures of ………. Week) – Cherf of the Week Agastya
In this final practical challenge, students were asked to make a “textures of ” dish, where they take one or two ingredienst and work out how they can create different texture that will make up the final dish. There were some very interesting plates, with Katarina, Hamish and Kabir making a dish that consisted of Nutella, pancakes, Nutella, brownies, Nutella, Ice-cream, Nutella Power and Nutella Cookies, however this did not quite win. Agastya worked by himself and was extremely creative with his Texture of Purple Carrot, with Mustard Ice-Cr team, which included, crisps, puree, juice, crumble, roasted and pickled carrot. and was plated to fine dining standard. Well done!
Sweet indulgence Show Stoppers – Star Bakers; Viren, DJ, Vanessa and Anya
In the last opportunity to become star baker in this rotation of Sweet Indulgence, the student worked in their groups to make a Show stopper Tiered cake. The standard was amazing, with amazing mirror glaze, homemade lemon curd, Italian meringue, and cookie cakes, though the award went to Viren, DJ, Vanessa and Anya, for the macaroon covered cake. which Ms Leung decide was the the most professional and showed a great amount of skill. Now it is all down to which group produces the best magazine , to see who wins the overall award for the course.
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8N Cereal Bar winners – Ethan and Will
Well done to Ethan and Will, who were voted as the Nansen winners of the cereal bar challenge the Healthy eating Life skills lesson. All of 8N tried each of the different groups cereal bar products and rated them on texture and taste. There Krispy-crunch bar was just the right level of sweetness, whilst being firm, but crunchy. Thye will go up against all the the other form winners in the end of year final.
Cereal bar – 8F Winners (Sam, Tia and Olivia)
Well done to Sam, Tia and Olivia who created their Banana Na Na Bites o winner for Fleming in the Healthy eating community time challenge and will go through to the final against all the other form winners.
Creative dessert Collaboration – Chefs of the week (Aika, Agastya, Justin)
This week in Lord’s Kitchen, students we asked to bring their favorite fruit or sweet treat, then they were put into random pairs or trios to design and a make a dessert, using their ingredients combination. After 20 mins brainstorming and planning the studesnt got down to making the different components of their desserts and the kitchen was a frenzy of cakes, meringues, mousses, sauces and souffles. The Chefs of the week Aika, Agastya and Justin were decided by Ms Leung who came to give her professional opinion of the presentation and deiced that these three had collaborated the best and had challenged themselves, as they had even tried some molecular gastronomy to make coffee spherifications to go with the chocolate and pomegranate dessert.
Y12 BTEC Hospitality Staff Lunch
Well done to all the Y12 BTEC Hospitality students, who designed and made their own meals in groups today, to serve to staff at lunch. There was a really varied and interesting menu, which gave staff a difficult choice for which team to eat from. Staff then paid a contribution of what they felt it was worth and filled in feedback questionnaires, to help the students evaluate the success of the service.
Red Team:
Stir fry Seafood Vietnamese Noodles with Vegetable Spring Roll
Yellow Team:
Korean Spicy Beef and Broccoli Served with Brown Rice
Quinoa bean Burger with a side of sweet potato fries and garlic coleslaw
THE BLUE TEAM
Thai Chicken Satay, with steamed vegetables, and Coconut Rice.
(peanut sauce on the side)
The feedback was fantastic and students enjoyed the event so much they wanted to do it more regularly and staff would be very happy with this.
Risotto Challange – Chef’s of the week (Nathaniel, Justin and Steven)
Well done to Nathaniel, Justin and Steven, who were awarded Chef of the week in Lord’s Kitchen for their Risotto. Students were shown how how to make a basic risotto and then were tasked to elevate it to restaurant standard, with their own ingredients and the way they garnished the dish. Nathaniel has the best flavoured risotto as he used seafood stock, prawns and scallops and Justin and Steven had the perfect texture and great presentation for theirs, with a Parmesan crisp. All the students were looking forward to making it again at home to perfect it.
