Creative dessert challenge – Adeline Tam (chef of the week)
This week student were asked to bring in their favourite fruit or sweet treat and then were randomly split in groups. They them brainstorming different types of dessert and how they could collaborate to combine all their ingredients to make a modern dessert. there was also all the usual cupboard and fridge ingredients t to help them. This brought a real mixture of success dues to the task and they ways students generated ideas and worked c\together, but the end result was generally very good. Each student was judged on their plating and the Chef of the week went to Adeline Tam – Well done
Pasta Week – Chef of the Week (Venus Lam)
This week all the Y11 students were amazing making homemade pasta dishes, whilst the y10’s were in their mock exams.
We had a range of Ravioli’s, Tortellini’s and tagliatelle dishes, but the some that stood out was Venus’s Pasta with Scallops and cherry tomatoes
A really great lesson all round and it was topped of by having Ms Leung in the class with a couple of her elements class, so we all got hooked up to heart rate monitors to see how hard we worked whilst rolling pasta. I burnt nearly 700 calories in an hour and half.
IS Masterchef Semi-Finals
Last Friday saw the exciting semi finals of Masterchef at Island School, with the Juniors being challenged to make a Meat-free dish to encourage people to eat less meat and the Seniors a dish to showcase herbs from the school garden, both in 45min time-frame. The judging was as always tough and panel of teachers and students finally came up y\with their winners in each section
In Seniors Ayesha Shahani won with her Tart filled with mint and lavender chocolate Ganache
In Juniors Jenny Wang and Valerie Lee won with their Mushroom Tagliatelle
Also Going Through from Senoirs is Claudia in 2nd place with her Thai Beef Salad
and Hitesh with he Pesto Pasta in a Parmesan Basket
From Juniors in 2nd place, by only 1 pint were Alessandro Lucchini and Yash Anand with their Aubergine parmigiana and Jason Qiu & Jordyn Dubinsky with their Macaroni Cheese pie
Well done to all the other competitors who didn’t quite make it through, the standard as once again really high
Week 5 – Mother Sauces (Chef’s of the Week – Natalie and Sonja)
Congratulations to Sonja and Natalie who were names Chef;s of the week for the 2nd week, whilst learning about the M5 Mother sauces. They made a perfect hollandaise sauce and poached their eggs brilliantly for their Eggs Benedict and then produced a luxurious e Bechamel for the macaroni cheese
Lord’s Kitchen – Seafood Week
This week students were challenged to fillet a fish each and prepare different types of seafood, such as scallops, prawns and squid . This was then turned into delicious seafood paella. The students that stood out this week were Sonja Medvedjed and Natalie Sheung Yin Leung, as they brought in lots of extra food and worked in a very methodical manner to accurately prepare all the seafood.
It was really enjoyed by all pupils and some tried paella for the first time and loved it1
Lords Kitchen Week 3 – Meat
Well done to Gwen Laot, Ethan Tong and Jeremy Kwok, who were awarded chefs of the week in Lords kitchen for showing the best butchery skills, to successfully joint a chicken and cook it 3 ways.
Lords Kitchen week 2 (veg cuts) – Chef of the week – Venus Lam
Well done to Venus (11N) who showed the most precision and accuracy in the vegetable cuts week of Lords Kitchen and made a lovely stir fry with the julienne of carrot.
Senior Masterchef First Round – Winner Ayesha Shahani (12W)
Last Friday saw the food department kick off the ESF Masterchef for the seniors. They were challenged to make a dish suitable to be served in a coffee shop, giving them plenty of room to be creative. There was a really good mix of savoury and sweet dishes, but the judges were all unanimous that Ayesha’s Fruit tart was the outstanding dish
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In a close 2nd place was Claudia Lau with her Brushetta 3 ways
Also going to the semi final in joint 3rd place is Chloe Chau and Brita Cheung and in 5th place Hitesh Hemnani
Lord’s Kitchen Week 1 – Chefs of the week
Well done to Kaela-Mei Townson and Kelly Beaumont who were awarded the first chef of the week accolade in the new semester of Lords Kitchen. Kaela made the best looking and tasting omelette and Kelly stepped up with the best fruit craving, with her apple swan
IS Masterchef – Juniors Round 1
Well done to Jenny Wang and Valerie Lee from Rutherford who were the first rounf winners of this years Masterchef. they were challenged to make a coffee shop prtoduct in 45mins and managed ro make a red velvet cake and ice-cream.
Well done to all the students involved as it was a very close competition. Also making it through to the next round is:
2nd Place – Pippa Yu and Audrey Lai (R)
3rd – Marie Brendal & Janice Chin. (F)
J4th – Alessandro Lucchini and Yash Anand (W)/Janice Fok & Rachel Zhou (N)
6th – Jason Qiu & Jordyn Dubinsky (D
