Cooking Heals

It has been a long long time since I last updated cookingheals. It has been a crazy time since I got back from Manila for the food photography workshop, and I ended the year of 2009 with dengue fever, bladder infection, and followed by a bad flu after I recovered from the dengue fever. It was a depressing period but I made it somehow, and hope that the new 2010 will bring brighter hopes, positive energies and fruitful harvests.

I’ve completed the Western cuisine course with Taylor’s College. Overall, it has been quite a worthwhile course to attend. I’m not going to attach the procedure and photos of every dish, but just a few photographs of my favourites. Most of the photos didn’t turn out well due to the poor light situation. You’ll have to find out more about the dishes yourself if you do get to attend haha…

Glazed spring chicken

Grilled beef tenderloin with Bearnaise sauce

Seared red snapper with lemon butter sauce, puree of pumpkin and pineapple kebab

Braised chicken leg in white wine sauce (one of my top favourite dishes from the entire course)

And finally, chicken lasagna. I’ve made it quite a number of times after the course and it came out absolutely delicious! Here’s a version that I made at home, with a slight tweak – chicken and mushroom lasagna:

Apart from the cuisine course, I’ve also been busy with a couple of food photography and food styling projects with food manufacturers…which explains why I have not been able to have time creating dishes or photographs for fun, the two projects really drained me out!

Lastly, as I’m writing this on Valentine’s Day’s evening, I hope that everyone gets to spend this special day with their special person or people. I’m still alone this year, but hopefully that special someone will appear soon haha…Today is also the first day of Chinese New Year, so I take this opportunity to wish all of you great health, lots of prosperity and fun in the new lunar year! May you all roar with success and joy!

Here’s a little card for both Chinese New Year and Valentine’s Day, the chocolates and truffles have been crafted by yours truly :), made with Swiss bitter sweet and milk chocolate bars!

And a little cup of tea to relax…have a great time everyone!