Mini Quiche

Today we were making mini quiche. We put our aprons on and washed our hands  and then Ms George told us how to make the quiche. It seemed slightly harder at first than the other food we have made but it actually wasn't hard at all. This lesson I was working with Ruby. After getting our ingredients we heated the oven. It was the first time we were using the oven. We first sprayed a tin with cooking oil and then cut out 12 rounds of pastry. These were put into the tin. Shallots and ham were then cut and put into the pastry. We then had to beat 2 eggs and cream before adding salt. The egg mixture was then poured on top of the ham and shallots. Cheese was then put on top. One of the pastry's overflowed as too much egg mixture was added but we cleaned it up. We had some spare pastry so we made 4 more. These then went in the oven. While they were cooking we did the washing up.

Once they were ready we took them out of the oven and tasted them They were absolutely scrumptious! I can't wait until next lesson.



Quiche in oven



Cooked quiche

Pikelets

The next thing we made in hospo was pikelets. As we had hospitality first lesson and it was pikelets we made, it seemed as if it was breakfast! We put our aprons on and washed our hands before being briefly told how to make the pikelets. I was working with Hope. The first thing we had to do was to put sifted flour and sugar into a bowl and combine buttermilk, egg, syrup and melted butter (it was meted in the microwave) We then whisked it into the flour mixture until it was smooth. The electric frying pan then heated up and butter was put into it. We used a cup to get the mixture and put it into the electric frying pan in pikelet shapes. Once bubbles appeared in the mixture we knew it was time to flip the pikelets or else they would burn. When Hope did hers they burnt a little bit. Mine ended up cooking well though. We were only supposed to make 4 pikelets but there was leftover mixture so we made one more each. This time both of them cooked really well. We then did the washing up.

The pikelets were put onto a plate and we got maple syrup on top as well as ice-cream. It all tasted amazing.

My Pikelets

Fruit Salad

The next lesson we made fruit salad. When we walked into the hospitality room the bench was filled with all kinds of fruit. As usual we put our aprons on and washed our hands before Mrs George told us how to make the fruit salad. I was working with Claire this time and she went up to get our ingredients while I set up. The fruit that I put into my fruit salad was apples, grapes, passion fruit, pineapple, strawberries and some lemon juice. Making fruit salad tested our cutting skills as we had to cut up all the fruit. Once everything was cut up we put it into a conainer. We then did the washing and cleaning up. Once that was finished Mrs George gave everyone an ice-cream for our fruit salad. The fruit salad was very nice.

Fruit salad ingrediants

Ice-cream

Bruschetta

Tomato, bocconcini and basil bruschetta was the next thing we made in hospitality. We first put our aprons on and washed our hands. Mrs George then briefly told us how we make the bruschetta. I went and collected our ingredients and Lucy (my partner) set up the area we were working in. The first thing we had to do was cut a piece of turkish bread in half through the middle horizontally and put it in the toaster. Before it was  toasted we cut the cherry tomatoes and bocconcici in half, broke up some bits of basil and cut the garlic. Once our bread was toasted we rubbed the garlic onto our bread and spread oil on it with a brush. We then put the sun dried tomato paste on top. The tomatoes and bocconcini were then placed on top with basil sprinkled on top. The washing up was then done.
The bruschetta wasn't hard to make and ended up tasting really good! I ate one of the pieces at hospitality as I couldn't resist it and the other one at lunch.

Finished Bruschetta

Smoothie

This was the first day in the kitchen for hospitality which was very exciting. We made strawberry and bannana smoothies. We first had to wash our hands for hygiene and put an apron on. Next we set up our cooking area and then got our ingredients and started making them. I was working with Jess. All we needed was strawberrys, frozen bannana, honey, milk, ice and yoghurt and they ended up tasting delicious! We put all of the ingrediants into the blender and in no time at all it was ready. After that we did the washing up and cleaned the area we were working in. This wasn't the best part of the lesson but it had to be done. Overall it was a great hospitality lesson with a great smoothie!

Smoothie

First Lesson

Today was the first hospitality lesson for the year and I was very excited to find out what we would do. Sadly, we didn't cook anything today or go into the kitchen but it was still a great lesson. We did 4 On Guard tests that needed to be completed prior to going into the kitchen. These needeed to be done so that we stayed safe while cooking and didn't get hurt. After that everybody made up a new blog for hospitality. I didn't get to make mine up in that lesson but I made it for homework today. I can't wait until next lesson to see what we will be doing!