Week 2 pastry started with us looking at a lemon pound cake & genoise almond sponge cake(pain de genes). We baked the pain de genes during our practical session. The cake is niiiiiiice but very sweet. We also got to play with marzipan, we had to do a rose flower & some leaves. It was [...]
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It has been a while
I have not posted much for a while, I have been in transition. I am at culinary school now. I had thought about doing this for a while and now it is happening. I am at Le Cordon Bleu Dusit…….. Class started about 3 weeks ago, it has been hectic but fun. I will be [...]
McBroccoli – McDonalds Broccoli Pie
This is what happened, I was walking past a McDonalds restaurant in downtown Bangkok, inside was a promotion poster for a broccoli pie. Yes! Broccoli. I say again Broccoli. I went in and bought myself one to take home. It costed 29baht(about 90 US cents). The pie is in the usual McDonalds pie box…. Unboxed, [...]
Crazy About Lemon Thyme
I love the citrusy fragrance lemon thyme imparts on to your fingers when you gently squeeze its leaves. I have not cooked with lemon thyme until now in Nairobi because the veggie store where I do most of my herb shopping does not stock it, recently in serendiptious circumstances I found myself foraging through the [...]
Just bought: “The Cook’s Book” edited by Jill Norman
Just bought! This book has been out since 2005 but it is still relevant.I love this kind of book, it mostly concentrates on technique with recipes included. My take on cooking parallels my background in computing, if you understand frameworks, API’s & patterns you can build great software. The same with cooking, I am not [...]
Simplicity: Egg & Chips
How easy is this. Wash potatoes, leaving the skin on, cut into chips. Parboil for 10 mins, toss chips in olive oil, thyme, salt & some chili powder. Cook in hot oven for about 30 minutes. Fry an egg any way you like it, I like mine fried with sunny side up. The yolk is [...]
My Cookbooks
This is my small collection of cookbooks that I bought recently. The Flavor Bible by Karen Page & Andrew Dornenburg is really great cookbook without recipes. It is a massive reference guide to ingredients, cooking techniques & how you can combine them for the best tasting food. Some of America’s most innovative chef’s share their [...]
Why I want to cook.
I am a geek, foodie, beer lover, wine lover & apple fanboy . The way I see it food is amazing science at work, I don’t think my mum thinks this but she has years of experience, that why she cooks amazing food. My approach to food is constant questioning why does this work not [...]
