Miss me much.. Well I was cookin'

Yes, I realize I have been missing in action, but I have been cooking my little heart out..

 So where we left off... 

Chou Pastry.. 

The amazing Pat Dennis... 

Teaching away...

We did heaps of Chou Pastry items.. Swans, cream puffs, eclairs, etc..

Here's some Sav-a-lav did.. 

Look at that decoration!

We blasted through Custard Slices.. 

Karen 'Mum', chocolateing the crap out 

of some custard slice..

And Konrad just admiring her awesomeness..

Some Pitiviers and Venetian Shutters.. 

Konrad just showing off some skills.. 

We got through the hard annoyance that is puff pastry.. no wonder you can buy it pre-made... 

 

PIE DAY!

In the last week or so, some extra fun stuff with our Prepare hot and cold desserts class..

Mousse all prettied up

Karen and Amelie's hot Lemon Souffle.. 

Chocolate work

And what is cooking without learning how to plate it and make it all pretty

Kaitlyn's wonderful ice-cream in a chocolate basket

with tuiles

Sav's Caramel Cream

Vanilla Bavaroise to the MAX!

Chocolate Mousse in a chocolate basket

Thanks to Amelie, Savannah, Karen and Kaitlyn for all your amazing photos

and hard work. 

You girls are awesome!

Yeah sugar the crap out of that!

Finally she is doing some work!

Wait.. 

That's me

My Brain

http://brightlightsandcoldcoffee.tumblr.com/

So I basically own all 'bright lights and cold coffee'..
Why?
Cause I remember it..

This is my photo tumblr and is really what the inside of my brain looks like... be warned

Cookery Days

This week was mostly cookery classes. 

Going from nicely air conditioned rooms, 

to a super heated room from all of the stove tops going. 

So far we have made-

Lamb Tagine

Ratatouille Provencale 

Lamb Shanks

Boulangere Potato

Roast Chicken

Sirloin of Beef

Roast vegetables 

Pan fried fish Meuniere 

Escalope of Chicken with Marsala sauce

Pumpkin Soup

Traditional Fish and Chips

This was all in the span of a few hours each day

Lamb Shanks Cooking

Lamb shankie goodness

Roast dinner for 10

Eaten by 4 girls

Lamb shank, Vegetables and Boulangere Potatoes

Escalope of Chicken with Marsala Sauce 

The AMAZING Lamb Tagine with Ratatouille

And Finally we did a bit of pastry.. 

Filo Pastry

Get your pastry on!

Just a few notes from the kitchens..

Get your quiche on

We made a selection of different quiches and tarts, 

using a hazelnut short pastry.

Quiche Lorraine- made with bacon, onion, grated cheese.

Quiche Florentine- made with bacon, onion, spinach and cheese. 

Onion Tart - Heaps of Onion and cheese.

And of course they all have a savoury custard. 

I was never a big quiche fan because of the texture,

I found it to be too much like a bad custard tart.

BUT THESE!

Holy crap, ate a whole quiche.

AMAZING!

Using Gruyere cheese and adding more eggs and less milk/cream

adds a hole lot more quality,

and just makes it AWESOME! 

Crumbles today

Made some sweet things.. 

Crumbles and Tarts.

Apple Crumble- Made with Apples, Cinnamon, Sultanas

Pear and Macadamia Crumble- Golden Syrup, Pear, Crushed Macadamia

Calvados and Apple Tart- Apple, Marzipan, Calvados (alcohol) 

Quark and Cherry Tart- Quark (bakers cheese), Sour Cherry

Quark and Rhubarb- Quark, Rhubarb. 

All made with a sweet short pastry. 

So much work to do this many different types.

We made over a 100.

My favorite was the Pear and Macadamia Crumble.

Quite sweet but had this almost Christmas-y taste. 

That's one nice looking Linzer Slice

Linzer is my worst enemy. 

Cook too long goes dry.. 

Learnt this the hard way. 

You have to almost under cook it, well at least it looks like it.

But in the end (the 2nd try) it ended up nice. 

Creamy and super sweet from the jam,

Not to mention its cute with little heart shaped jam windows. 

Mini chocolate work

Watching the pro at work. 

Strudel Making Time

Apple Strudel made with puff pastry..

HAND MADE PUFF PASTRY!

Super pain in the ass.

Quick before it gets eaten!

We finished it with a jam glaze and melted fondant with almonds.. 

More photos up soon..

AND FULL RECIPES!

P.S thank you Sav.. stole your photos

Never too old

Here is a photo taken by my mother..

This woman.

Of me in a slide

Lets not go into the future..

Went to Future Music Festival Brisbane on saturday..

It was nuts to say the least! Never seen that many drunk people in my life!

Like these bitches

I didn't drink the whole day!

PROUD!

In the V green room

Like true Brisbane style,

It pissed down raining.

Right when we were in the thick of it

Soaking and dancing

A good day..

Except for the amazing amount of drunk people.

Got to spend it with my friends though

Just glowing