Homemade pasta week – Chefs of the week Jasmine, Zekie, Shyan
Homemade pasta week is always one of the favorites in Lord’s kitchen, with a great balance of skill, creativity and collaboration. students had to decide whether to p\make, spaghetti, tagliatelle or ravioli and which of the 5 mother sauces they were going to make to accompany the pasta. Rolling the pasta was a bit of work out and the sauces gave students the potential to elvate their dish to another level. jasmine was awarded chef of the week for working independently and making the best quality pasta, presented to the highest standard and Zekie and Shyan got the accolade for great teamwork and being the only studenst try the more challenging ravioli
Eggs benedict – Chefs of the week Edison, Yi Shyan and Chloe
Lord’s Kitchen this week, was an introduction to the 5 Mother Sauces and a cook off to see who could make the best Hollandaise sauce and poached eggs. The chefs of the week Edison, Yi Shyan and Chloe, who showed the most professional working practices and creative presentation. It was the first time ever that the whole class managed to make the sauce with noone scrambling the eggs .
Food Life skills – Y8 food film project
In Lower school, the Food Tech departemntr has taken a interdisciplinary approach to the teaching and has developed a new life skills couse, that links with different curoculum areas. This first projrect looked a food s\yling and how to make cooking videos, with Ms Word coming in to teach the basics of starting to make a food film.
Below are two video made and edittedby Leia in 8D, which are excellent and a huge achievements in 3 lessons
Here is the link to Hitesh’s new YouTube channel, where he has made different cooking videos for student going to University. This is part of his Extended BTEC project, where he has incorporated his two passions of film and food.
Lord’s Kitchen, week 4 – Meat. (Chef’s of the Week: Chloe, Melody, Saara, Yi Shyan)
Meat week in Lord’s Kitchen is always challenging, as studenst are reuired ti joint a chicken into the wings, thighs, drumsticks, thighs and caucus. The students then worked in groups to make a different chicken dish, including, Creamy mustard casserole, breaded chicken wing, sweet chili drumsticks, chicken kebabs and chicken stock
Chloe, Melody, Saara, Yi Shyan were awarded chef’s of the week, for their teamwork and organisation wgen making, breading and deep frying the chicken wings
Y12/13 Food students take over the school catering for CPD day
A massive congratulations to all Y12/13 students, studying food related courses, who made all the food for the staff CPD day on 5th September. All the food was made using fresh ingredients/no processed foods and all the vegetables were supplied from Magic Season Organics.
The Y13 IB food Science students made the breakfast and break time healthy snack and drinks, including Quesadilla, Foccaccia and Hummus, banana muffins, frozen yoghurt and fruit salad and iced tea and milk tea.
The new Y12 Hospitality student were in charge of the roast pork carvery, with roast potato and Yorkshire pudding and poached salmon /salad bar. they were amazing, considering some of them had not cooked in the food room before
The Y13 BTEC hospitality students were working in 3 groups of 4 students and each had been developing their own dessert to serve and they had to make 40 portions. One group made Japenese Lemon cheesecake, with brunt lemon and cream, another made mango and Dragon-fruit Bavious and the final groups made peach Cheesecake. All of these dishes were presented to an exceptional standard and were of amazing quality
In total 120 people served asnd the feedback was unbelieveable, with some staff saying it was the best meal they had ever had at school.
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.
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
BTEC East meets West fine dining meal
see the video.
Many thanks to Mae Sapo for editing and the Y12 BTEC film students for getting all the footage
ESF Chef Final
Last Friday saw the annual finale of the ESF Chef competition, where all the winners from all the ESF schools come together to compete for the title. This year the competitors were given the brief to “Plan, prepare and make a technically challenging, 2 course meal (main course & dessert) that reflects the theme “sustain” and would be suitable to serve at a new, International style HK restaurant that wishes to showcase locally sourced ingredients.”
Representing Island school in the juniors, were Andrea and Yu, who worked together to make their two course meal of free range chicken with homemade pesto and tomatoes and Chocolate fondant with mint chocolate ice cream.
The students collaborated really well together , but were beaten by two boys from West island.
Jennifer represented Island school in the Seniors, after winning every round of the island school heats. She decided to make her take on a Vegan Edible Garden and Chocolate and cherry dessert, served ina white chocolate dome coloured blue and green to represent the earth. Both dishes showed fantastic creativity and presentation and was a rerally interesting interpretation of the brief
I was a really close competition and the judges deliberated for a long time, but the Senior winner was Summ,er from Discovery College, who made a belly pork dish and poached pear with chilli chocolate sauce
many thanks to Magic Season Organics that donated a lot of the vegetables that students used. This is a an organic vegetable box delivery company recently set up in Hong Kong by ex-Island school students. You can find out more about their company here https://magicseasonorganics.com/pages/our-story
Alos a big thank you to Island School PTA and Masterful Ltd, who arranged the prizes.
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
