totally missed it, same like last year. Dishwithvivien was 10 years old 13 September 2018

First post was Happy Meal durian puff in 2008

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Not posting much now, maybe averaging 1 or 2 post for the past 1 year…

Total missed this. 😉

DishwithVivien was 9 years old on September 13, 2017… First post was Happy Meal durian puff in 2008

Umm, not blogging much now, having load of backlog… anyway, i think it will continue to be a post or 2 per month.

So this blog is 8 years old!!! So average unique visitor per day now is 112 users, pretty bad stats… oh well.

So taking opportunity of this anniversary day, i am gonna do some food ramblings. So this past year 2015 is a year i sorta done something i have always wanted to do, to dab my hand into F&B industry and hopeful of finding something that i will eventually enjoy to do… for the rest of my life… maybe… read on…

For the first 3 months, i was working as a pastry helper, and for the rest of about 9 months was working as a baker in another establishment. The whole year was nothing sort of drama, was joking with my colleague that it will make a good drama series… drama in the kitchen… 😀

Above is my first creation. chocolate cake and lemon tart (to be piped with whipped cream stabilize with gelatin)

So the choc cake made it to top right corner, lemon tart to bottom right, the rest was not made by me. I was tasked with creating 3 – 5 types of dessert (can remember exactly how many) in 3 hours time… Failed miserably…

I baked the gingerbread cookie, and my baker cut, glued and decorated this gingerbread house

Every Monday, i “TRIED” to make 3-5 dessert before lunch time. STRESSED~ Weekend already have to plan what to make on Monday. So i made cheesecake on the left, 3 types of tart (egg tart/lemon tart/cheese tart) and 2 type of jelly. Does that count 6 types? 🙂

Baking cookies for in house usage. When you order coffee, you get free cookie. So i made choc chip cookie, so good until my colleague that time want to buy it… I don’t think it is that great la.

“Pressure Test”: The manager who like to eat apple crumble gave me a ad-hoc task, to make some type of crumble.

mango and apple crumble it is… So so la, don’t think it looks nice, prob taste average.

So have to make load of pancake every other few days, because they sell pancake fast! 🙂 These a pre-made and steam on-order… nice cast iron pancake pan

Another week, another headache thinking of what to make… tis is a sad dessert display, coffee jelly, choc cupcake, and i not sure i made that mango pudding…

A new week. I made carrot cake, peanut butter tart, and i think i made that chocolate thing as well. Blek!

Creaming butter and sugar for buter cake, i think…

I made all these sponge (butter cake). The baker is in charge of assembling the cake

So i made cheesecake again, in cup cake form, made that chocolate pudding and i prob made that choc cupcake as well. Sad display~

Coffee jelly again~

Red bean bun in the oven

One of the chef loves it… red bean bun

peanut butter cupcake (playing with dual-color frosting)…

cheesecake galore… ya…

apple crumble for an event

My farewell cake after 3 months stint in this place

So this is my first task in the new place, to bake a sweet cornmeal cake, not nice, so it didn’t make the cut

playing with wholemeal bun

looks not bad eh

Looks like a slab of sad flat dough right? This is a ciabatta recipe

it turn out quite alright, not as flat as before it went into the oven

nice~ nice~

I think the recipe is called Vermont bread, it is quite sweet from the brown sugar/honey

I made it into loaf form as well

don’t like it because it is quite sweet

baking tart

tart shell

lemon meringue tart, didn’t made the cut…

playing with meringue for valentine’s day

haha, failed

boss bought some lamington for us.

my turn to make lamington for the restaurant

taste ok only

some spiced apple bundt cake…

underbaked cake… urghh

playing with making ciabatta again

it is really nice actually. Should make this again when i have time~~~!!!

oh sugar!

playing with making pau

steam pau

baked pau

steamed one was better, really good actually the steamed one.

this espresso cheesecake is yum~

messy messy lamington

playing again… meringue

this quiche is good, yum yum yum~

I made all these, so tiring to make the shell

looks pretty, apple tart

failed attempt and success attempt to make dairy free caramel, using soy milk (left and right)

this coffee glazed cookie is quite good!!!

lemon meringue, failed

boss bought me a waffle machine to play

waffle recipe testing time (this is pumpkin waffle)

this choc cake is really quite good!!!

playing with vege tart, looks pretty…

cauliflower pizza shell is yum~~~, but a pain to make

pop corn!

apple cake, don’t really like it

a mocha cake

yum! pizza with cauliflower base

coconut macaroon, ok only lah

this is yum, cauliflower savoury bake

looks nice

this choc cake is quite good as well

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chocolate meringue cake with secret centre (raspberry filling). very nice but a pain to make!

homemade chocolate mint cookie!

nah… quite nice, mint is always nice

chickpea meringue cookie

granola, perhaps my first time having it

basque cake from France region, nice on the first day, yucky on 2nd day when the inner pastry cream mixed with the butter cake into gluey mess

one of the many times testing how not to have crack on cake

cutting round and rounds

Myanmar salad is da best! sourish, appetising and sooo niceee

in da making…

quiche again, so yum~

nasi lemak sushi sound wrong, but it is really goood

dehydrating beetroot and strawberry for flavoring for my macarons.

macaron success!

choc muffin

This savoury muffin is really good!!!

apple tart making

so so la

blueberry buckle cake is so nice!

spanakopita, spinach pie!

banana cookie

my favourite food in the restaurant where i work, pesto spaghetti, made using lots of basil and nuts, fresh made in the house!

lemon poppy muffin is nice!

My farewell pana cotta made by my co-working, so yum! minty with blueberry sauce.

So that concludes my 1 year adventure in the F&B industry, playing with food mostly, glad to have the experience.

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Here is to more food post to come~~~

 

6 years since the first blog post on 13 September 2008: http://www.dishwithvivien.com/2008/09/happy-meals-durian-puffs/

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