COOK. BAKE. HOST.

Time before the start of practicum isn't much, so since my mum and I had some time, we went to ToTT, which is located at 896, Dunearn Road.

ToTT is definately a one-stop store if you are thinking of purchasing cooking wares or even exortic ingredients. There is a wide range of items especially for baking wares, you can find almost everything you need there! Other than just having a "mini mart" selling ingredients, a big and huge store of equipment, there's even a bistro and a cooking studio that you can attend lessons at as they have a wide range of courses you can sign up for!

A whole wide range of pastas with different flavours. Interesting!

A "bake & go" station with ready made cookie doughs, just pay for the dough and you get to bake there! All fully equipments you need for the baking! Good for people who wants to bake and yet does not have much equipments :)

Few whole shelves of cook books with some cook books of famous chefs like Jamie Oliver!

Cooking studio with everything you need for the cooking lesson! Even apron is provided!

At the bistro serving quite limited variation of food...........

Free flow of drinks! Good for a long afternoon..

Mushroom soup with.......... Spring onion as garnishing..? I don't think its quite suitable for a western soup!

Durian fritter, which is something new, would be a super-love thing for durian lovers!

That's all for now (:
http://www.tottstore.com/ for more information! :D



Korean fever!

Recently, teenagers have been into a Korean craze, and I believe its because of the K-pop bands which made Korean language, Korean delicacies and Korea so popular now. I am some what proud to say, I am IN too (:

I cooked 떡볶이 (Tteokbokki; Korean spicy rice cakes) the other day, it was my second time cooking! Its one of my favourite korean dish! :D

Ingredients:
1 packet Tteokbokki sauce
1 packet rice cakes
About 250ml water
Optional: Vegetables (carrot, enoki mushroom, cabbage), Korean chilli paste, Meat and Kimchi.

Very easy to prepare one dish meal, preparation and cooking time about 20minutes (: The sauce could be found in some korean supermarts and certain Fairprice (I think only Fairprice xtra has it)

Do try to cook this simple yet nice dish especially if you like spicy food! (:

"Library" for BOOKS!

When I was searching for a recipe for egg tarts for my microteaching, I thought that looking through cook books would be more reliable (I trust books more than online sources). So, here I go, searching for one recipe in my mum's cook book library! I didn't know my mum had soooo many cook books till my parents brought all the books home from my parents' shop and placed it into the cupboard.

I suppose this is one of the passion to cook/ bake! (: in the end, I found my recipe despite looking through so many books :D

(LI WHEY SHOWS YOU THE MINI INSTALLED LIBRARY)

From Desserts to Thai Hawkwer food to Sauces to Chinese pastries. I think I can find anything I want to cook here!

In the sea of books, I fished out one book I like the most (and I suppose my mum too), its a book from Daniel Tay (founder of Bakerzin). The pictures in the book are very appealing, presentation and garnishing very well done!

I found this set of "encyclopedia" sitting at the corner of the cupboard. Very useful with information and recipes! (:

Are cook books better than online sources or the other way round? I'm still relying on these books (:

Learning Festival, 29 September 2010

Last wednesday, 29 Sep was the learning festival. There were 20 over participants for this event and I realised many of them do really have the passion to learn cooking and baking just like me and the rest of my classmates!

Do you see a big 'WOW' when you see this presentation? Pretty and well organised isn't it? It was done up by Miss Chin. The theme of the event was a Japanese theme. So, here goes, I will show you a sneak peak of what we did last week during the Leaning Festival (:

First of all, Matcha Cheesecake! This is a baked cheese cake (there's different types of cheese cake, some chilled; non-bake and some are baked cheesecake). I personally like green, so the colour is really appealing to me (:

Next up, Teriyaki Chicken and Rice (the participants did a bento box, a different presentation but the same items). Everything garnished!

Participants all geared up and listening to our senior, Farah, for instructions on making the cheesecake!

The participants working on their bento boxes and they are really enjoying it!

The participants looking really pleased with their products!

Up-close on the cheesecake! All nice and warm, almost ready for serving! *Mouth watering?*

The participants were so creative that they brought their own rice moulds from home! (:

On a whole, I really enjoyed myself throughout this Leaning Festival although i was only assisting the participants and did not do much hands on, but I am feeling satisfied after seeing all the participants being so happy after completing the dishes. I hope in future, I will sense this kind of satisfaction when I am teaching my students (:

Anyway, the rest of the photos are up on my Facebook page, assess to the album here : http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=287868&id=759674413&l=f7e8d02546