Happy New Year to all, and its great that my 2 weeks madness of work with the Christmas and New Year's crowd has finally subsided so I can give some of my time to blogging^^
I've found a new show that's quite addictive - Top Chef!
Its a very interesting show, where chefs are pitted against each other to duke it out to see who can handle the most in any situation and to see how creative they are^^ If there was a competition like this here, I would definitely be out to try it - I feel like it would be a good challenge to myself and I can finally prove my worth in this industry^^
And its because of this show, its got me reminiscing about my school days when you have different lessons on cooking and presentation and how you are supposed to showcase your skills - the amuse-bouche was brought up. Its basically a dish kinda like a hors-doves' where its presented to diners before the start of their meal and its a showcase of the chef's talent, culinary expertise and whats to come for the meal^^
I somehow managed to find some time to create some the other day - the one above is a very simple dish, where its a stuffed tomato with duxelle mushrooms and spinach, Its a very simple dish and i quite liked the taste of it, though I did find that (since my company only uses shitake mushrooms) the taste and smell of it were abit over pugent to my liking^^ though in terms of presentation, I think it needed abit more work^^
How, funny is this? I'm critiquing myself on my own dish hahaha;p
This next one is a mushroom cake served with a slice of totamto and mint on the side. An odd combination though, I find the combination of the earthy mushroom to be accompanied well with the refreshing mint on the side^^
Its quite fun to see what one's imagination can come up with in the kitchen, especially since the kitchen that I'm running in, its quite a limited amount of items which I have access to^^
Who knows, I might come up with more ideas, till then, 2009 is still fresh, got plenty of time to busy myself^^
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