Day 60: Gone Fishing!

Friday was Fish & Chips day, yummy yum yum! Of course, every Friday morning I read the Financial Times from cover to cover to catch up on the world's business happenings. This Friday morning was of course, no different (kidding), but I thought wouldn't the Financial Times make for an excellent chip wrap?

It's very Canary Wharf style... You know of course, good battered fish needs good batter and even better fish so it all started with trimming this poor fella:

Then I dipped the freshly filleted fish into some delicious Budwiser based batter (helped myself to a small drop on the QT) before throwing him into the deep fry!

Et voilà:

Although, as you can see I wouldn't serve such a big portion of chips with a starter sized fish but I was hungry... I was docked a mark for being so greedy. Come on, it's Friday, hello!

However, I got full marks for my dessert, the fabulous White Chocolate Mousse with Fresh Strawberry Sauce. I decided that I am going to do this for my final exam. It can be hit or miss but I really do like it and I made an excellent job of both presenting it and of the texture. At the school, we are told to use leaf gelatine where-ever possible as it works better. However, just for these, the recipe calls for powdered gelatine and you know it turned out much better with powder. I had this dessert made and in the cold room by 9am, before the morning's cooking even started so I really do hope it works out in the exam.

I did an excellent presentation in a cocktail glass for marking, but I didn't take a pic. So, I'm thinking of going with the cocktail glass for the final exam with some chocolate wafers.

In the afternoon demo, we covered a world of recipes from Goat Cheese and Rocket Bruschetta with Tomato and Chili Jam; Roast Stuffed Duck with Traditional Potato Stuffing; Red Cabbage; Chocolate Meringue with Chocolate and Rum Cream and Chocolate Wafers and an Irish Coffee Meringue Roulade.

I have to say, this week was one of the toughest yet, I'm finding it hard to fit in time to read over my notes so I'm beginning to panic. I'm sure it will be okay, off to Mary Jo's demo on Saturday.