tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44588939306101572102024-03-13T19:01:32.718-07:00ESL Cafe Community College East GippslandUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458893930610157210.post-71045604295698354792009-12-06T18:17:00.000-08:002009-12-06T18:26:17.997-08:00Hi my name is karen<br /> Today we have fun to make chistmas cake for my family.<br /> It looks good and nice to eat.<br />Today is the last cafe class for 2009<br />I will see you next yearUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458893930610157210.post-58154877954075392382009-12-06T17:56:00.000-08:002009-12-06T18:07:15.986-08:00Hello everyone, it is our last day in the kitchen for this year; we are going to have a break and then come back next year. Today we cooked Christmas cake for each of us to bring home. It is very nice of the school to let us do that. We did some cleaning up too and everything is in good order now. <br /><br />I personally have a good time in the kitchen and learn a lot about cooking. It makes my life easier in the kitchen at home... I would like to thank Junita and my colleagues for a good team work. I am happy and look forward to coming back next year.<br /><br />I thank Community College for giving me an opportunity to join the class. See you soon and meanwhile I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. <br /><br />Cheers,<br />LaniaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458893930610157210.post-42216260649621327942009-12-06T17:36:00.000-08:002009-12-06T17:56:25.335-08:007th October 2009<br /><br />Hi, it's me Bernardita. Today is our last day for the Cafe Class for this school year 2009. We didn't serve food today but instead, we prepared Christmas fruit cakes for ourselves. Oh, they were all yummy. Mine had a little crack on top but it still looks good. Junita said, maybe I had put a little bit sugar into it. Well, I can always improve my fruit cakes the next time I'll prepare some comes Christmas Day. What matters is we prepared it ourselves and we can do it again anytime...isn't that great?<br /><br />Last Friday, we had our Christmas Party at the Oak Tree Restaurant. For a change, we had dinner at a Cafe, not the usual things we do in class. The food was great and we enjoyed it very much especially that we don't have to clean up...no dishes to wash.<br /><br />This coming Friday, we'll be having our presentation. Each of us will receive our certificates. Kudos to all of us! See you next year...bye.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458893930610157210.post-35275524231947134632009-11-29T17:43:00.000-08:002009-11-29T18:01:20.495-08:00Hi my name is karen<br /> Today i made some pancakes and they look good.<br /> The rest of the food is great and nice to eat.<br />Today is the last cafe day for the year but we will be catering next week for our presentation day.<br />Bye for now<br />karen.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458893930610157210.post-24648413211447715952009-11-29T17:04:00.000-08:002009-11-29T17:43:22.851-08:0030th November 2009<br /><br />Hi, I'm Bernardita and I'm happy to be back always in our Cafe Class. It's a good day, a little bit cold but a respite from the very hot days early this week. I just love this kind of weather and a quiet day too, no drama at all. It didn't take us long to prepare the menu for today: Pancake with Mushrooms and Boiled Eggs; Vol Au Vents with Chicken and Asparagus; Bread and Butter Pudding; and Greek Salad. I did the White Sauce for both the Chicken and Mushrooms...it was beautiful. The secret there is not to burn the sauce, mix it well and see to it that there are no lumps. Junita, our teacher wasn't feeling well today so she just made us all the cooking, but no worries, everything came out all beautiful. By the way, our Christmas Party will be on Friday, 4th of November at Oak Tree Restaurant. For a change, we will not be cooking but we'll be having dinner there, Oh, isn't that great? That's all for now, see you net week...bye.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458893930610157210.post-4368527710217509672009-11-29T16:42:00.000-08:002009-11-29T17:03:25.971-08:00Good morning! How are you doing? It's a nice Monday for being in the kitchen and today is our last cafe day for this year. No wonder it is a bit quiet today. Well, we will see you again next year. We look forward to serving you better. <br /><br />We are having a Christmas Party on Friday, 4th December 2009 at 12.30 at Oak Tree and that will be the last day we are together. It is sad, however we do need a break. So I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. <br /><br />Cheers,<br />LaniaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458893930610157210.post-65269764763219230532009-11-23T05:34:00.001-08:002009-11-23T05:35:13.409-08:00Esl Kitchen<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0dEpnD2l4u0&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0dEpnD2l4u0&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458893930610157210.post-77379451956392620342009-11-22T17:12:00.000-08:002009-11-22T17:19:34.718-08:00Hi my name is karen<br />Today i made some tuna roulade.<br />it was nice to eat it tasted good.<br />i have had so much fun making it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458893930610157210.post-76499669481916724722009-11-22T16:48:00.000-08:002009-11-22T17:12:13.650-08:0023rd November 2009<br /><br /><br />Hi, I'm Bernardita. For our Cafe class today, we prepared Tuna Roulade,Vegetable Stack, Pancakes with Jam and Cream, Chocolate, Nut and Date Torte, Rice Salad and Potato Salad. I was assigned to do the Vegetable Stack from the start up to the finish. The first thing I did was to prepare the dough for the Lebanese bread which were then fried. They were arranged layer by layer in a round baking dish with the following fillings: taco sauce, shredded cheese, stir fried red and green capsicum with onions, baked eggplant, sliced tomatoes and mushrooms.then, it was baked and oh, it really was beautiful...I can do it again at home, no worries about it.<br />By the way, we did a catering job last Saturday, the 21st of November. Our teacher Junita, asked Lania and I if we could help her do the catering for her former boss of this Community College. We had a good time, we enjoyed doing it, preparing food for about 18 people for a birthday party in Bruthen. It was fun and easy and it gave us a very good work experience. I like it very much, I enjoyed working with Junita and Lania and we earned 50 bucks each afterwards, very rewarding also. I ended asking Junita if she can have more catering jobs and I'm very much willing to give her a hand.<br />That's all for today...see you next week....Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458893930610157210.post-25762674853560333792009-11-22T16:12:00.000-08:002009-11-22T16:45:16.718-08:00Hi, it is a beautiful Monday morning and here I am back in the ESL kitchen again. Today we are six people to prepare for the food and it will be very easy as everybody is helping each other. Yes, we have a good team work. Our main dishes are Tuna Roulade and Vegetable Stack; Pancakes with jam & cream and chocolate nut & date torte are the dessert. Another delicious food we cooked and you must try it to believe it, so we look forward to serving you next time. <br /><br />In addition I would like to share my first experience to do the catering last Saturday. It was an 80th birthday party in Bruthen for about 15 people. My teacher, Junita asked me and my friend Bernardita to assist her and we were happy to help her anytime. The party was a success and I thank Junita to give us the experience.<br /><br />See you next week,<br />LaniaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458893930610157210.post-79949266956203630172009-10-25T19:10:00.000-07:002009-10-25T19:21:01.680-07:00Hello again, how are you today? I am good as always especially on Monday because I will be in the ESL kitchen. I will meet my friends and have fun with the cooking. Today we are only four people to prepare the food and it is all right as we will have simple food. There are not many customers either. Today we only have Spinach & Fetta Triangles, Bacaon & Mushroom Triangles served with scallop potatoes and salad. The feedback from the customers is good, it is delicious as usual...Oh I forget the dessert...it is apple strudel. Now it is time to go home so I will surely see you again next week. Thank you and see you, LaniaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458893930610157210.post-77639150841008521132009-10-25T18:00:00.000-07:002009-10-25T18:59:29.996-07:0026th October 2009<br /><br /><br />Hi! I'm Bernardita,I'm here at our Cafe Class with Karen, Lania.David and our teacher Junita. Today, in our menu we prepared two kinds of triangles; Spinach with Fetta and Bacon with Mushroom. These triangles are served with Scallop Potatoes and Salad. <br />For dessert we made Apple Strudels. <br /><br />Each of us were given a recipe from Junita to work on, to achieve our menu for the day. I was assigned to do the Bacon and Mushroom Triangles. Lania made the Spinach and Feta triangles, while Karen cooked up a beautiful scallop potatoes. we all helped to make the salad and the Apple Strudel.<br /><br />Before we could start, Junita and us students went through the recipes of what we had to do and made sure we understood everything. Ingredients were provided for us,to make the meals. <br />With Junita supervising us and giving us direction so we won't go wrong. <br /><br />First thing first, I sliced the bacon as in as possible, then I did the same with the other ingredients: garlic, spring onions ans parsely. I didn't need to slice the mushrooms anymore since they were already the sliced ones in pack at the shop. I cooked the bacon first by frying it a little bit in a pan with margarine then the mushrooms and last were the spring onions and the parsely. We let it cool in a bowl before adding Fetta cheese and grated cheese. We didn't add salt or any other seasoning because the cheese and bacon did that or else the dish would come out salty. Anyway. the dish came out beautifully...and making the Filo pastry triangles was fun....you have to be very careful to do it with light fingers so they won't break. Well, we were successful in that aspect but maybe next time we'll be an expert in doing that, but we're doing good...we'll get there. We also have some additional sort of assessment today in Food Hazard and some evaluation in Team Work.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458893930610157210.post-20168491398538056872009-10-25T17:46:00.000-07:002009-10-25T18:00:08.377-07:00Hi my is karen<br /> Today I made scalloped Potatoes and the look yum.<br />I also completed iassessment about the food production<br />system and the hazards that are there ialso compleled<br />a Team work<br />survey. i am hungry and looking forwasd to lunch.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458893930610157210.post-26123643951324236942009-10-18T19:52:00.000-07:002009-10-18T19:59:09.428-07:0019TH oCTOBER 2009<br /><br /><br />Hi! I'm Bernardita and for today we prepared the following: Vegetarian Pasties, Meat Pasties, Banana Splits, Pasta Carbonara, Scalloped Potatoes, and of course the Tossed Vegetable Salad. It was fun because each one of us was made to prepare a dish. I was asked to prepare the Meat Pasties which came out beautiful. We were also asked to get the orders (I and Lania did it).That's it folks....have to go....my sister paid me a visit here in school and we have to go to the shops...see you.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458893930610157210.post-66251598493867687912009-10-18T18:41:00.000-07:002009-10-18T19:04:59.341-07:00JESShi im jessica and to day i help make meat pasties and they also mADE CABANARA AND SALARD AND FOR DESERT BANNA SPLIT THAT WAS YUM I HAD THAT COZ MY THOT HEARTZ LOL IT WAS A GOOD DAYUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458893930610157210.post-23747213414907738282009-10-18T18:22:00.000-07:002009-10-18T18:35:52.904-07:00Hi my is karen<br />Today l made pasta Carbonara Bacon & mushroom and salad<br />scalloped. pasties vegetarian or meat look good and nice.<br />and Banana split and quit good.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458893930610157210.post-27394677051959621022009-10-18T17:55:00.000-07:002009-10-18T18:06:29.598-07:00Hey..hey..it's Monday and here we are in the ESL kitchen again. We have 6 people today to prepare all the food. Today's menus are Pasta Carbonara containing bacon & mushroom in it, Meat Pasties and Pasties for vegetarian. All will be served with salad and scalloped potatoes. For the dessert, we are going to enjoy Banana split served with ice cream, cream, nuts and chocolate topping. Sound good, isn't it? So if you miss to come today, you'd probably try our food next week. We'll see you then, meanwhile we hope you have a nice day. Take care and bye, LaniaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458893930610157210.post-82296709320567857722009-10-18T17:44:00.000-07:002009-10-18T17:53:52.482-07:00Hi there its tracey here again today in cooking we made meat and vegie pasties, carbonara and tost salad. Today l did dishes and cleaning.Im glad to be back in cooking as l have alot of fun and meet alot of new people.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458893930610157210.post-92010938351741788432009-10-11T19:30:00.000-07:002009-10-11T19:40:22.844-07:00Hi my is karen <br /> Today i made pancakes it was very good and delicious so was the rest of food.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458893930610157210.post-61572239915367958192009-10-11T19:17:00.000-07:002009-10-11T19:27:36.542-07:00jesshey its jess and today in cafe we made stufted pankes with ricotta beef casserole in scones porcpines scalloped potatoes and for desert bread and butter pudding i eat the porcoines with scalloped potatotes and it was yummy to day a tv man came in and filmd the people working in the kitchen but i went out side because i didnt wanna be on tv shy lol i had good day thoe i like cooking cass .Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458893930610157210.post-70783729726813764632009-10-11T18:43:00.000-07:002009-10-11T19:11:33.731-07:0012th October 2009<br /><br /><br />Hi! It's me again, Bernardita. For our Cafe Class today, we prepared Stuffed Pancake with Ricotta Cheese and Silverbeets, then we had Beef Casserole topped with scones, we also had Porcupines, Bread and Butter Pudding, Scalloped Potatoes, and Tossed Vegetable Salad. It was an exciting day we had in class today because media people from Channel 9 came around quarter past eleven and got a video of us in class for the Community College advertisement on TV which will be shown sometime this November. It was fun and we enjoyed it...there were three of us in class and of course our teacher Junita. I guess, we all came out natural in our acting: Junita giving instructions, Lania serving meals on plates, Karen chopping up the oregano while I was cutting lemon for the salad dressing. They focused the camera though on the table not so much on our faces. Well, I just hope we'll see ourselves on TV even for only a split second, that would be great. The table setup that we did when people had already their meals was also taken a video and again I hope I would see myself there since I was around serving at that time. We had a different strategy in class today and it came out very good because it made our task easier that's why we were able to finish early.And everyone was also able to follow what the others were preparing. By eleven o'clock we were ready and already relaxed. Junita said, she had to make some modifications as suggested by the Office as a result of a student survey. This is all for now, see you next time.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458893930610157210.post-17438173780606867392009-10-11T18:16:00.000-07:002009-10-11T18:31:14.084-07:00It's Monday and I will always be here in the kitchen to do some cooking again. However today was a bit different because we have a shooting for TV ad to give a picture to viewers what we are doing here. Everything was going well and we hope we can see ourselves on TV!!! Now back to the food we have prepared today, we serve Porcupines (meatballs), stuffed pancake with ricotta, beef casserole, scalloped potatoes and bread & butter pudding for dessert. As usually they are lovely and you should try our food to prove it. So we will wait for you next week...Have a nice day!<br />Cheers,<br />LaniaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458893930610157210.post-79874365098437194312009-10-04T19:52:00.000-07:002009-10-04T20:07:34.832-07:00Hi my is karen <br /><br />Today i made some egg and bacon pies. I was vary nice to eat it was good.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458893930610157210.post-63660739289795071702009-10-04T19:23:00.000-07:002009-10-04T19:38:54.409-07:00Hi, how are you? I feel good and am happy to come back to this class again. As soon as I stepped into the kitchen this morning, I could feel that it was going to be busy because our teacher, Junita has started to prepare things already. I quickly put on the apron and started to work...haha. It was a busy day as we received many orders unlike before. It was important to make sure that we had enough food for everyone and we did excellent job, everyone was happy with the food. We even had a taste a little bit of what we cooked today. I like them, Chicken Cacciatore, Bacon & Egg Pies, Ravioli and Home made Vanilla slices for dessert. They were nice. Thank you everyone and we will do better next week. See you then. Bye and have a nice day.<br />Cheers, LaniaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458893930610157210.post-75648427134199863062009-10-04T18:34:00.000-07:002009-10-04T19:08:31.484-07:005th October 2009<br /><br /><br />Hi! I'm Bernardita. We're back here at our Cafe Class after a two week school break.Oh, it was such a beautiful holiday, haven't gone to much places though but that break gave me enough time to practice cooking and preparing at home the different kind of recipes we did in class. I can confidently say now that I can make different kind of salads like the Vegetable salad, Rice salad, Couscous salad and Noodle salad. I also prepared at home Mexican rice and that it really came out beautifully. What I haven't tried yet are those foods that need baking since the oven at home doesn't work well, it's fan isn't working and we haven't fixed that yet. But I do love to try those recipes. This class also inspired me to plant vegetables in our garden because it's really fun picking fresh veggies in the garden for salad. Right now, we have lettuce, cabbage, celery. broccolli, cauliflower, tomatoes, snow peas, eggplant, chillies, capsicum, climbing beans, cucumber, pumpkin, squash all growing well in our garden. We also have strawberries and different kinds of herbs like mint, oregano, thyme, tarragon, parsely, dill, sage, lemon grass and chives. For today, we prepared Bacon and Egg Pies,Home made Vanilla slices, Ravioli and Chicken Cacciatore. Each order comes with Mexican rice, couscous salad, noodle salad, and Tossed Vegetable salad. I got to prepare the Ravioli and I guess I can do it at home. The Bacon and Egg Pies looked easy to prepare too. I might as well try it at home today after class so I won't forget how to do it. I missed Natalia today. She's absent, hope to see her next week. That's all for now, see you.....Unknownnoreply@blogger.com