Wednesday, 25 November 2009

Creativity and playing with aspic (gelatine)

Tuesday, we had a very special day - we had to play with aspic. (Gelatine)
After we had made a very nice consommee (that's a very clear clarified 'soup') we ruined the consommee by putting loads of gelatine sheets in it - horrible!

Consommee - before and after clarifying. Quite a difference.

But afterwards we got to play with it, because the casing for the saucages that we were supposed to make were not there - so it was playtime!
Interesting to see that some people in this world think you can actually plate a WHOLE tomato on a plate in aspic and put the ballotine on top - but chef Poupard corrected it and sliced the tomato thinly (2 mm thick) and put it on a plate.

Picture time! B-class, you did a SUPER plating of the aspic, it looked great. Very very creative.(by the way, I'm in A-class...)

Levi was champion 'playing with words' - VOILA! On a day like this, he would fit right into the Amsterdam/NY/Vancouver gay-scene. Oh-la-la!






The best plate of all, I think!
Chef Poupard destroying, I mean tasting the stuff.
The tomato slicer....

Judging Catharine's plate


Chef T's creation. Nice!

4 comments:

  1. who made the octopus plate? It's awesome!

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  2. These are so cool...what are the various 'pictures' made out of? Did I see which one was your's?

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  3. That Anonymous was from Anthony

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  4. Mine is the last one...... joke! no, that was cheffie's. Actually, it's not on ze blog, it was sort of ruined; I am not too keen on these 'creative' lessons. It's nice to do though, but it's not just my thing. There's a lot of work to be done for 'just a plate of aspic....' sj

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