Featured Student Chefs Gallery

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