February 15, 2008

Singles and Connection Cooking Class

me and a few colleagues signed up for some cooking lessons at Raffles Culinary Academy. The course fees was super expensive, but since it can be claimed from company as part of the staff incentive (personal enhancement), we tot why not?

the first lesson was french cooking... after seeing how much effort was put into the preparation , i now know why it cost so much to eat at french resturant.


the first dish.
Homemade Truffle "Brioche" with Poached Foie Gras and Braised "Granny Smith"

I mean apart from foie gras being an extremely cruel food.. since i am there, i dun wan to waste it loh.. so i tried.. omg..the taste was extremely strong and heavy.. after 2 mouth, I basically got to force myself to finish it... else the poor duck die for nothing... yuck
BTW, this is a demo dish, we dun get to do anything
oh... later chef gave us some slices of the expensive black truffle... not bad, its got a nutty taste!

the 2nd dish - Roasted Turbot with Steamed Baby Bak Choy and Smoked potatos "vine Tomato Confit" , aged Balsamic

Note: Turbot is a type of fish.. very big .... -.-
and we only get to panfry the fish fillet... nothing else was cooked by us.... -.-
Chef gave us free caviar.... another heavy tasting "delicacy"... erm, not my taste..

the dessert - vanilla "Panna Cotta" , raspberry fruit coulis, hazelnut ice cream

psst, this one i am holding is made by the chefs la.. cos the one i made is like shit.. lol
we get to boil the milk , add the sugar and gelatine... for the vanilla panna cotta part...

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this one lesson cost $120. would you go if you have to pay for it yourself?

5 comments:

pinkie said...

geez, so expensive?! But definitely a good experience, I haven't got tat, dun think I will pay so much for ONE lesson :P

mistipurple said...

hehe, if you see the ducks, don't think you wanna eat it. :P

mistipurple said...

let me add, i am sure you saw before lah. heehee

oceanskies79 said...

I will only pay so much for the course if I want very much to cook a good French meal.

Anonymous said...

incredible how Europeans want to cook asian style and Asians learn to cook European style. We should all swap places.

And yes, that was very expensive