Third - and last - Cookery Class

Ready - and already eaten

For the first time, we made salty food. We made something like swiss potato, which is easy to make. We, professional cooks, can consider everything easy to make, but this really was a piece of cake. To make this dish, you can use whatever you want - whatever that goes with potato. We used bacon, cream cheese and onions.





First of all, you need to grate the potatoes, and cut the onions and the bacon into little pieces, then put the ingredients together, and separate them into two equal portions.

After it's done, cook both portions separately. Then, put one portion in a dish and the cream cheese on it. On the cream cheese you'll put the second portion and take it to the oven for 10 to 15 minutes and it's ready to eat.

Second Cookery Class

Theme of the week: Cupcake

Students: Mary, Peter and Lucas

Steps :

First - Mary and the guys put sugar, butter, eggs and vanilla in a bowl, then mixed and beat it with an electric mixer.
The challenge was not to splash it on us and on the floor. We became experts in this now.

Second - They made chocolate topping. Meanwhile they put the dough in bowls or cups and placed in the oven for roasting.

Third - They made another topping. This time it was with red jelly. They put condensed milk in the pan, after they broke gelatin in leaf, mixed with condensed milk and cooked. It became a pink cream.

Fourth - After a while the dough was ready. At the end they put some covered
with chocolate on top and others with the pink cream.

Feedback -The recipe is easy to be done, the cupcakes are cute and delicious.
In this lesson we took advantages, besides eating something tasty and improve our skills as cookers, we increase our cook vocabulary as well.

Cookery Class

Some weeks ago, we were talking about life skills we would like to learn at school. As everybody agreed that we should have cookery classes, our teacher decided to do it. We were going to make a strawberry dessert.

Although a specialist said that we were not able to do it, we didn't give up. At the beginning, everything was running perfectly... We knew how to use a blender, how to cut strawberries and how to break eggs - this one was quite hard, as we needed to use only the yolk.




André using the blender            Pedro, Beca and Patricia cutting strawberries

 

If you take a look at the second picture (strawberries) you'll see that the stove is on. Everything was great, until we needed to use it. As we're professional cooks, the problem wasn't with us, but with the stove's fire: it couldn't be as low as we needed.

While we were making our best to cook the dessert, Arthur made the dough. After some minutes fighting with the stove, using our admirable cooking skills, everything was done, except from the chocolate, which goes on top of the "cake".




Arthur's Dough                                   Arthur watching Beca

 

In the end, we melted the chocolate and put it on the top of the dessert (with some strawberries, to make it wonderful, of course!). It went to the fridge, and we played Scrabble. After some minutes, it was finally ready - and delicious! Here is a picture to water your mouth:



Perfect, isn't it?



Open House London

Lloyd's of London

A weekend in which more than 700 buildings in town are open to the public. This is the Open House London, an event that every year is gaining more curious people to learn about the architectural details and historic buildings to which the audience usually has no access.

Guided tours are organized to offices, public buildings, churches, schools, private residences that are distinguished by the architecture and design, including the Bank of England, Lloyd´s of London, the Gherkin, Canada House, St Martin's church in the Fields, the new Olympic park and the Hindu temple BAPS Shriswaminarayan Mandis. The entrance to all these places is free, but some require reservations in advance.

BBC Blast

   "Blast" is the BBC's annuary service which gives teenagers a chance to try out new skills and learn more about the creative industries.

   Enjoy free multi-media workshops in BBC blast, which will begin at the 10th of September. You will be able to use the latest technology, while sharing ideas and creative skills with professionals from the media-industry. Do not miss this incredible opportunity to upgrade your multi-media skills, or even to learn new things. There will be a wide variety of workshops: about poetry, music, artwork, game design and performance. You can also participate in a game design competition!

To see more about it, check BBC Blast's site.

Festival Brazil

Right now, Festival Brazil is going on in London. It is a really nice festival, which has lots of music, dance, food and even more awesome things related to Brazilian's culture.

Many shows have already happened, but there is still time to check out the best of our culture. Try not to lose the forthcoming art galleries, samba celebrations and music!

If you want to see what will happen, when and where, click here.

Give it a try!

Opening post

We are only students from Brazil, forced by our beloved teacher to do this project. We are going to update it every two weeks, in order to provide you with some reviews about cultural events, such as concerts, taking place in London. If you are interested in music, bands and groups check out our blog. Welcome!