Tag: fruit

a bronze medal in the salon culinare 2008

Post author By Tessa
Post date September 16, 2008

I won another bronze medal for my fruit flan in the salon culinare 2008 I was very pleased. the flan was an almond sweet pastry with a rose and vanilla pastry cream topped with honey dew melon, papaya,plums, and black cherries and glazed with barkers glaze. Our School did so well , we took 58 medals and won the training establishment of the year for the 3rd year in a row Woooooooo Hoooooooo that is so very cool

Congratulations to every single person that participated in the competitions be you a medal winner or not, the fact that you all participated is the most important thing.

Tags almond, barkers, bronze medal, flan, fruit, salon culinare, sweet pastry

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Around the campfire = a bronze medal

Post author By Tessa
Post date July 7, 2008

This weekend was the regional competitions for the chefs schools

I was entered in the Fruit Flan Competition, there were 9 of us in our team and in the actual competition itself there were about 24 entries. there were about 15 medals given out, 3 silver and the rest were bronze. Our team of 9 took 7 medals , 3of those were the silver and the rest were bronze.

my flan won a bronze medal , thats two bronze medals for me now , I said to our school manager “Ive got two bronzes now Im planning on an upgrade for the salon culinare in september” :o)

This was a sweet short vanilla pastry base with a lemon and passionfruit velvet pastry cream then topped with honeydew melon, nectarines, strawberries, melon balls, oranges, grape slivers, with a melon flame in the centre. it looked like a campfire.

here are some pictures, of the flan, my medal and a school group photo.

If you need to find out more about our school “NSIA” check out the links page

We all worked so very hard and the school did very well with medals, I just loved being part of the team and all my training and hard work was worth it

Tags , bronze medal, flan, fruit, melon, oranges, pastry, pastrycream, strawberries

recipes

lemon and passionfruit mousse

Post author By Tessa
Post date April 17, 2008

We had a family lunch with Bruces family this weekend , great nz favourites such as succulent roast lamb with roasted veges and green peas and gravy , followed up with my dessert

I made lemon and passionfruit mousse and then added it to sweet tart shells and served fresh passionfruit with it, along with a selection of nuts, apples and pears ensuring that everybody got things they all liked

here is the recipe for the lemon passionfruit mousse

300 mls cream

2 egg whites

1/2 cup of sugar

juice and zest of 3 lemons

2 passionfruit

Method:

mix juice, zest, passionfruit pulp all together and set aside.

whip cream till fairly firm

in a clean bowl whip egg whites to soft peaks

fold all ingrediants together and place in fridge to set

serve with extra passionfruit pulp

Its a beautiful very light tangy mousse

Tags eggs, fruit, lemon, mousse, nuts, passionfruit, tarts