Monday, 28 August 2017

Cheese Platter

On this week. we did not do many recipe. Just the Cheese platter that takes little time to prepare so we are not wasting our time and we practice on carving fruits. For your information, Fruit carving is our Final Exam on this semester. It is hard. Adohhhh.............. By the way, these are the Cheese plater recipe. Enjoy :3

Cheese Platter



Ingredients

• Cheddar Cheese
• Edam Cheese (Red cheese)
• Biscuit or cracker
• Celery (Batonnet)
• Carrot (Batonnet)


Method

1. Remove the wax of the Edam Cheese and slice them. Into desired shape.
2. Arrange everything in a plate. The presentation should look appetizing and beautiful.


Fruit carving short course

Today chef Azmi has invite an amazing chef from PTPTL college to teach us about fruit carving. We learn a lot about the basic of carving fruits. It was a big shots for us to show our skill in fruit carving. eventhough I cant carve well enought but it was a fine experience for me. In this entry, there is no recipe will be given but I will show my carved Fruit. For more information, you might want to watch on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-C7YqQCvJ-2EUUyH7iOStw) to learn more technique and skills. That its for this week see you next week. :3


Salad

On this week, We learn about salad. It is not a tasty food for the carnivorous people but it is healthy and everyone should eat some once a week.

Salad
-Raw or cooked ingredients serve with dressing sauce
-Ingredients that can be used are meat, poultry, seafood, dairy food, vegetables and fruits
-Raw is where the ingredients item is not cooked
-Cooked: Heat applied, dry moist heat method.
-Processed: Canned, smoked, bottle and freeze item

Types of salad
1.Appetizer salad
-Stimulate appetite
-Small in size
2.Accompaniment salad
-Served as side dishes
-Vegetables and starches
3.Main course
-Large portion
-Full meal
4.Separate course salad
-Very light
-To clean plate
-Rich and heavy
5.Dessert salad
-Usually sweet

-Best deserved dessert or as part of buffet or party menu

That is a little bit of information about salad. So lets go to the three salad recipe.


CAESAR SALAD
 

Ingredient

•Romaine lettuce
•Onion
•Vinaigrette
•Croutons
•Parmesan
•Olive (pickled, bottled)


Method

1.Prepare the romaine lettuce by cutting them and separate each other because we don’t want them to stick on together.
2.Bake the croutons in the oven or we can actually toast it. For today, we used loaf bread and baked them for a while in the oven. Cut them into dices and set aside.
3.Ring the onion.
4.Prepare the vinaigrette or dressing. We have learned how to make it from the past lesson. Click here to see.
5.In a bowl, mixed the romaine lettuce and the dressing. Stir well together.
6.On a plate, arranged all the ingredients nicely. Sprinkle the olive and parmesan cheese on the top to enhance the taste and as well as to garnishes the salad.




Beef Salad


Ingredients

•Mixed coral salad
•Onion (Cut into rings)
•Roasted beef
•Vinaigrette
•Red and green chilli (Julienne)


Method

1.First of all, lets start with the beef. Saute the beef for each sides in a pan for a while and then baked into medium rare. When it is done, took out from the oven and thin slices.
2.On a plate, arranged all the ingredients based on your likes and creativity. Make sure it is combined nicely.
3.Sprinkle the vinaigrette on the top or around of the salad. We also add sliced tomatoes as the garnishes.

Garden Salad


Ingredient

•Mixed coral salad
•Onion (Cut into rings)
•Carrot (Sliced by using the slicer or mandoline)
•Tomato(wedges)
•Vinaigrette


Method

1.Arranged all the ingredients on a plate nicely. Sprinkle the vinaigrette as well. Garnish with the sliced cucumber. Make sure it looks simple but attractive.


So that is it. Enjoy the vegetables :3

Absent on week 7

I did not attend this week class because I am sick so i have to go to the nearby clinic. But I heard from my friends That they're making mayonnaise on this day. they make it a competition. It a loss for me to not attend that class. I hoped they will do the same on the next class.