The End of My Basic Cooking Class

On the 30th of September, I did the written and practical exam for my basic cooking class. The entire course was about cooking basics, except the 3 last courses, where we were taught to make  main dishes: Chicken Picatta, Beef Stroganoff, and Chicken Cordon Blu. For the written exam, it's not so hard, but I think I messed up a bit when writing the recipe for the Chicken Picatta. For the practical, we were asked to make Chicken Picatta too. I think I did all the steps correct, except the taste of the chicken was too salty, so I didn't really like it. Although, if I eat it with the other foods on the plate, the saltiness won't be so prominent.

At the end of the exam day, the whole class had a group photo with Pak Udan, our main chef mentor, and together with the whole supporters (the parents) who supported us throughout the whole course.

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My first trial for chicken picatta at home. This was after we were taught how to make it in the course.

My practical exam result (chicken picatta).

Beef stroganoff (made at home).

My Chicken Cordon Blu (made at home).

A pic of me cooking (not during the exam).

Class photo with Chef Udan. 

Group photo with all the supporters (parents).

Since the last post about my cooking, I haven't posted about the other cookings I've made at home. Here they are:

Carbonara

Bolognais.

My Newest Cooking Journey

I recently enjoyed making simple desserts, such as cookies and pastries, following recipes from a baking book that I bought in the last BBW book fair in Jakarta. It's simple and easy actually. The only problem was that the recipes all creates an unpleasant "full" taste (eneg) and since then I stopped making those kind of desserts, as I still don't know how to make not-so-sweet desserts.
I was then thinking of cooking main meals, because the dishes all look interesting (like in Masterchef Australia :) ), but I didn't know where to start (even though I have lots of main meal recipes from my Mom) so I stopped for a moment, until I was offered a cooking course.

Here are some photos of me in Cooking class:

Here are the ingridients and equipments.

It has been three weeks since the first day of the cooking course, and I'm looking forward to every cooking class. Recently I was taught how to make French toast, different types of egg cookery, salad (with homemade mayonnaise and french fries), and 3 types of soups.

Left: Over-easy, Rolled Up Omelette, Sunny Side up, and scrambled egg. Right: French Toast

The eggs I made in the course.

And this is my salad:

I haven't remake the soups yet, so you won't be able to see it now :). 

My First Time Baking (Almost All) By Myself

I went to the Big Bad Wolf book sale and bought several books. It's not as much as the last one, because I came there on the last day and only try to find the "gem among the dirt". One of the books I bought was "Baking". At that time it was past lunchtime and I passed the food category, so I stopped by and saw that book, so I felt that I really have to buy that book. I promised one of my friends that I'll bake something and bring it to her, so I baked these cookies yesterday morning.

They are originally called "Jumbo Chocolate Fudge Cookies" by the book, but I renamed them as "Cashew Choco Cookies", as I changed the white chocolate into cashew nuts. 

This is their original recipe:

I baked half of the ingredients first so that if I fail, I won't waste that much. From that half amount of the recipe, I still reduced the amount of the chocolate and sugar so that it won't be too sweet, 

My mom helped me with the preparations. It took almost 2 hours, and baking took almost half of the day :D. 

Hopefully my friend like it!