Kitchen studio one of our year two students, great skills learnt and dishes to taste, well done team. From the top, Sous vide salmon with nuts & seed salsa, Spaghetti with prawn & crouton crumb, Pork & Chinese cabbage potstickers and Ricotta and spinach ravioli with pesto cream.

Ice Cream Sammie Shack

The Ice Cream Sammie Shack

(This is a fundraising for the Food Design Institute's National Diploma in Hospitality Management Students' field trip)

What: "Ice Cream Sammie Shack" 

- Vanilla ice cream sandwiched between  giant chocolate chip cookies or American chocolate brownies, or both.

When: Thursday 19 & Friday 20 March; 11.30am to 1.00pm each day or until sold-out      

Where: Outside Manaaki Building (M-Block)

A great field trip to start the year, the Southern Cross Hotel visit with Kate Elliment and Sarah McDonald as hosts and of course the excellent lunch and coffee roasting/tasting session at Mojo with Jason Moore.

Hands-on learning during our field trip last year, thanks to Kevin and he’s team at Gilberts Fine Food & Lievito Bakery and of course Richard Emerson at Emerson’s Brewery.

Here is a recipe we like to share from our Year 2 Diploma student’s stint in the kitchen. Great lunch menus and over 300 guest, well done team

Ciabatta Bread

1.5 cups tap water

1 tbsp olive oil

1.5 tsp salt

3.25 cups flour

1 tsp sugar

1.5 tsp dried yeast

Method

Place ingredients into the bowl of a bread machine. Select the dough cycle and start.

Dough will be quite sticky and wet once cycle is completed, place dough on a generously floured board, cover with a large bowl or greased plastic wrap and rest for 15 minutes. Lightly flour baking sheets or line them with parchment paper, using a sharp knife, divide dough into 2 pieces and form each into a oval. Place loaves on prepared sheets and dust lightly with flour. Cover and let rise in a warm place for about 45minutes. Preheat the oven to 220° C . Spray water on to the base of the oven and place loves immediately in the oven on the middle rack. Bake until golden brown 25-30 minutes.

Mad hatters morning tea

End of Year Brunch Party by the National Diploma in Hospitality Mgt Yr2 Students

A great party dish this ham baked in bread dough ended up to be.