Ex-food students visit the Elements and BTEC lessons
Today was a great day in the food department as 4 members of the Island School Alumni, decided to come and visit.
Claudia Lau, who left last year, came to demonstrate her favourite cookie recipes to the Sweet Indulgence Elements class, seeing as it was biscuits week
Nitin Hranandani (class of 2015) and Natalie Chan (class of 2014), showed off their culinary skills they developed whilst at university and on work placemnt at 3 Michelin starred restaurants. They were joined by Alvin Koo (class of 2015), who visited the new Y12 BTEC Hospitality class and will be returning next week to speak to the Y13 Hospitality students, about his role as an event manager, whilst on work placement in New York.
Sweet Indulgence week 1 – Confectionary (Star bakers, Nihaal, Yash, Farhaan and Kingsley)
In the 1st lesson of Sweet Indulgence Elements this terms, the students were put in small teams and were told they were goinbg to develop products for their theoretical bakery/cake shop. they will be designing logo’s, website, instagram pages, promo videos and much more, over the next term and bit.
In this week students were given a recipe to make a confectionery product and then also made a chocolate, that could be sold on the counter in their bakery. Well done to Nihaal, Yash, Farhaan and Kingsley , who more perfect honeycomb/cinder toffee and shiny filled chocolates.
Lord’s Kitchen (Wk 1) – Omelette Challenge (Chef of the Week – Jasmine)
In the first week of the new Lord’s Kitchen elements course, student were introduced to the course and then had to organsie themselves to make an omelette, to show off their mise-en-place and heat control. Well done to Jasmine (11F), who showed the best working practices to produce a perfect omelette
Food lovers Guide to Culture World Food Fest
30th May was a big day on the calendar for the elements course Food lovers Guide to Culture. It was the first time the class run a world food festival, to celebrate all the different world cultures they had been learning about. Students worked in teams to prepare one dish from one region and all these dishes were later added to the buffet which served teachers and students at lunch time on the Tai Wai campus. Mr Burrough’s photography class came down to take photographs of the teams at work and also their final dishes. The festival was a great success and students received very positive feedback from visiting officials from ESF and Mr Loggie.
Well done to all students in Food lovers Guide to Culture and Mr Burrough and his Photography class who all helped to make this event a success.
For more photos of the event, please see Mr Burrough’s website on the link here
Lord’s Kitchen Burger Sale – Chefs of the Week (Ruaidhri and James)
Well done to Ruaidhri and James from the Lord’s Kitchen Elements class who planned and organuised their own pop up burger sale today. The had previously costed the ingredients, worked out their break even point and done the marketing to promote the sale. They sold all 40 burgers for $30 each, within 10mins and easily could have sold more. Very good considering they needed to sell 30 to break even. Looking forward to their next pop up venture on Monday 11th June to kick off Healthy Eating Week
Choux pastry week – Star bakers Joanne and Priya
Chous pastry week in sweet indulgence always proves one of the biggest challenges for the students to master the process of making the tricky pastry adn then making sure their chosen products achieves the perfect puff. There was a lot of profiteroles and produced , with different fillings and garnishes, and this weeks star bakers were decided upon because of their approach to the task and because they deiced to work independently. Priya made a mini Croque-en-bouche which she garnished with white chocaolate butterflies that she had made at home and Joanne made mouthwatering eclairs which could have been sold a French patisserie
Puff pastry Week – Star Baker Riya Zaveri
Sweet Indulgence this week focused on every baker favourite standard component, Puff pastry. this cgave students the opportunity tpo be creative with croissants, apple roses and danish pastries and much more. Riya was awarded Star baker, for her professionally presented raspberry cream Millle Feuille, which woukld have been a great dessert a French restaurant
Homemade Pasta – Chefs of the week (Erika and Christy)
Homemade3 pasta week is one of the most challanging and tiring lessons in the Lord’s kitchen Elements. Students could make any sauce to accompaqny their pasta and then are givingf a real work out doinbg the rolling with the pasta machine and some students even made filled raviolis. However Erika dn Christy were awarded Chef of the week for their perfectly presented spinach and mushroom tagliatelle, as they worked the most effectively as team to make it.
Eggs Benedict Challenge – Chefs of the Week (Jessica and Natalie)
Well doen to Jessic and Natalie, who were awarded Chef’s of the Week in Lord’s Kitchen Elements for their restaurant standard Eggs Benedict, they collaborated well and paid particular attention to detail to make this dish and show off their Hollandaise sauce making and egg poaching skills. Already looking forwad to next weeks homemade pasta and sauce dishes.
Sweet Indigence @ Complete Deelite – Star Baker Theresa Knight
In todays Sweet Indulgnec lesson the class took a trip to Complete Deelite to do and cupcake icing and mochi making workshop. The class was really inactive with student watching and volunteering to assist in the demonstrations and then getting to decorate their own cupcakes and then make their own filled mochi. This was an enjoyable challenge for the students who were striving to use all the techniques they had been shown. The instructor decided that Theresa,had by far and away decorated her cupcake the best and was awarded Star Baker!
