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Friday, April 25, 2008

PIERRE HERME, world gourmet summit.

Mezza9, grand hyatt. It was fully booked, half of Singapore was there.

Dessert that night, Emotion Satine, Variation, dessert Ispahan

variation of chesnut, passionfruit and matcha green tea. Topped with passionfruit ice cream and a tuile.
Satine: Compote of passionfruit, seasoned orange segments, cream cheese cream, shortbread cubes.

My dessery ispahan!!(: Rose flavoured macaron biscuit, rose petal cream with raspberries and lychees. Lychee sorbet, rose petal aromas and raspberry sorbet. Omg, it was truly heavenly.
The ispahan.

Culiary Masterclass! at STB.

It was somewhat a smaller event than I expected, though the room was filled.

Pierre herme.


He spoke french during the masterclass, so another french chef was translating. Haha his accent was quite funny, he kept saying poof pastry for puff pastry.
He made two desserts, his revelation and tarte mogador. It was really complicated, I think it would take me a week to make them. Each dessert had 4 to 5 components. We also got the recipes as part of the class.
Andrea and me with the world's most famous pastry chef. He is visible annoyed, the crowd just thonged to get his autograph/take pictures. Hahaha, newspaper article the next day: Fans mob pastry guru. Such rock-starism.
Tasting! Tarte mogador: Shortcrust pastry, milk chocolate and passionfruit ganache with candied ginger, roasted caramelized pineapple with 3 types of vanilla (tahiti, mexico, madagascar) flourless chocolate cake, topped with a chocolate macaron.
Revelation: It was surprisingly good, usually I dont like anything that plays between the lines of savoury and sweet. Puff pastry with tomato, mascarpone vanilla bean cream with olive oil, studded with black olives, tomato and strawberry compote.


9:10 PM

Monday, April 14, 2008

I've been making macarons during the weekend and most batches have cracked. Its really depressing. Its been so long and I cant even bake properly. I need to master making good french meringue macarons.

Changed seats today. I will miss Jacq and Julia even though they always put stuff in my hair(: Haha now seating next to zhang hui and zoe.

Dance auditions. Sharon does it really well, like getting everybody to listen to her. I remember the auditions we held for the sec ones and how much we screwed up without her. For the first time, it was a dance club thing. Not like a zaki/bibiana/xiaolin item. The dance club is getting too cliquish. Dance night!

We're super dead for RMUN. Audition date is same day as our geog video. Hahahah omg the forums are really weird. Lets break the ice! Its alot more work than I imagined though, but everyone says its fun in the end.



1:27 AM

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Geog quiz at acjc yesterday. Opening part was really weird, so do you think you can geog? Written component was not as bad as NUS though, more related to what we learn in the class. Amazingly we got through the second round! Maisie and I took part in geopardy, got paired up with SJI. It was so irritating the supposed 'easier questions' with less points were more difficult that the high point 'difficult' ones. We were really bad at first, I think we trailed throughout the whole round. The hurricane question!! Omg we so knew that one okay):

We caught up a bit at the end, didnt get past it but we didnt deserve it anyway. One of the SJI guys was a scholar who knew many people in our class. The other won the top 4 individual prize okay. We didnt know he was that smart! He just sat in one corner and didnt really say much. ACSI won though, quite surprisingly. Defending champion was dethroned, for once.

We finished comm dance today! Sharon is amazing(:


Mango, banana, simple syrup, mascarpone.


Makes mango mascarpone ice cream.



3:39 AM

Sunday, April 06, 2008

I feel I'm really distracted nowadays. Like I cant sit still and concentrate for long. Maybe its this long term aim of midyears, prelim, olevels and everything seems so far far away. Okay midyears are creeping up soon. After that will be crazy.



Acjc quiz next week, will have to skip rad and I hate doing that. Especially since there's only 3 weeks left. I hope acjc wont be as bad as the nus quiz, it was only because of a miracle that we pulled through.


Oreo cake for my sister's birthday. Its been a long time since American styled cakes and tea breads. This was our black and white cake(: Although the crumb was more tender last time.




White sour cream oreo cake with bittersweet chocolate glaze. Shiny! (:


Thanks for trusting me enough to share.


2:54 AM