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Shermay's Cooking School - September 2010 Schedule
FRI SAT SUN
4 SEP (MORNING)
4 SEP (AFTERNOON)
5 SEP (AFTERNOON)
PIES & TARTS 2
(New Recipes!)

Chef Audrey Tan, Head Chef & Chef-Owner
Freshly Baked


10.00am-12.30pm
(2hrs 30mins with an interval)

Retail Shop & Office Hours: 9.00am to 8.30pm

Demo + Recipe Pack + A Substantial Box of Freshly Baked Treats to Take Home

Difficulty Rating:2/5
(No or little background required)

Non-Members: S$119 nett*
Members: S$107.10 nett
Prepayment Required.

Demo + Take-Away Box:
1) Lemon Meringue Pie
A zesty lemon filling with blow-torched light and fluffy meringue topping
(Techniques: Homemade lemon custard + basic meringue)
2) No-Bake Cheesecake
No baking required at all for this sweet cream cheese pie or tart made with a crushed cookie melted butter crust, super-easy!
3) Roasted Banana Tart
Caramelised bananas and sugar with real vanilla in free-form puff pastry tart baked upside-down using store-bought puff pastry.
4) Seasonal Fruit Tartlets
Easy-to-make fresh fruit tartlets made with a homemade shortcrust pastry.
5) Apricot and Pistachio Tart
Oven-roasted apricot with a pistachio filling made with a homemade shortcrust pastry.
6) Tomato & Cheese Galette
No baking dish required for this free-form rustic savoury tart filled with cherry tomatoes, cheese and fresh basil

CHINESE HOME CUISINE FROM A MASTER CHEF 1
(New Recipes!)

Celebrity Chef Sam Leong, Cookbook Author & Consultant

4.00pm-6.30pm
(2hrs 30mins with an interval)

Retail Shop & Office Hours: 9.00am to 8.30pm

Demo + Recipe Pack + Food Tasting

Difficulty Rating:3/5
(Some background preferable)

Non-Members: S$149 nett*
Members: S$134.10 nett
Prepayment Required.

Demo + Substantial Food Tasting:
1) Double-Boiled Canadian Morel Mushrooms with Bamboo Piths
in Chicken Consommé
2) Steamed Red Garoupa Infused with Lime Chicken Consommé
3) Traditional Salt-Baked 'Cordycep' Chicken with Chinese Herbal 'Tung Kwai'
4) Stewed Minced Pork Noodles, Beijing-Style
(zha jiang mian)
Bonus Recipes
(For you to try at home):
5) Traditional Fish Head Noodles with Chicken Consommé

Complimentary Vintage Pu'er will be served.
CHINESE HOME CUISINE FROM A MASTER CHEF 2
(New Recipes!)

Celebrity Chef Sam Leong, Cookbook Author & Consultant

3.00pm-5.30pm
(2hrs 30mins with an interval)

Retail Shop & Office Hours: 12.30pm to 8.30pm

Demo + Recipe Pack + Food Tasting

Difficulty Rating:3/5
(Some background preferable)

Non-Members: S$149 nett*
Members: S$134.10 nett
Prepayment Required.

Demo + Substantial Food Tasting:
1) Crispy Kurobuta Pork Stuffed in Chinese Fritter Served with Spicy-Mayo
2) Old-Fashioned Cantonese Chicken 'Yok Lan Gai'
3) Traditional Stewed Beef with White Radish
4) Stewed Minced Pork Rice with Soy Egg
(Taiwanese 'Lu Rou Fan')
Bonus Recipes
(For you to try at home):
5) Yellow Pumpkin Purée with Crab Meat and Walnuts

Complimentary Vintage Pu'er will be served.
11 (MORNING)
11 (AFTERNOON)
12 (AFTERNOON)
Retail Shop & Office Hours:
10.30am to 8.30pm (Mon - Fri)
9.00am to 8.30pm (Sat)
12.30pm to 8.30pm (Sun)

10 Sep, Fri
CLOSED
(Public Holiday)

11 Sep, Sat
No Morning class.
BAKE IT BETTER: FILO PASTRY
(New Recipes!)

Chef Christopher Tan, Cookbook Author

3.00pm-6.00pm
(3hrs with an interval)

Retail Shop & Office Hours: 9.00am to 8.30pm

Demo + Comprehensive Recipe Pack + Food Tasting + Box of Treats to Take Home

Difficulty Rating:2/5
(No or little background required)

Non-Members: S$129 nett*
Members: S$116.10 nett
Prepayment Required.

Cooks across Europe and the Middle East use filo pastry, paper-thin sheets of wheat-flour dough, to make all kinds of
yummy delicacies. Now you can too! Learn tips, tricks and recipes for taking ready-made frozen filo dough - now sold at bakery supply shops, gourmet stores and all good supermarkets - and turning
it into crunchy, crispy, flaky, buttery treats.

Demo + Comprehensive Recipe Pack + Food Tasting + Take-home Box:
1) Apple Strudel
The classic Austrian dessert, traditionally made with hand-rolled pastry, is transformed into a much easier and quicker to make treat thanks to filo! The pastry layers are rolled up around juicy, cinnamon-scented apples and raisins and butter-browned breadcrumbs and baked to a golden finish.
2) Baked Filo Samosas
A healthier version of Indian samosas, baked instead of deep-fried; spicy pea and potato curry wrapped in strips of filo. This technique can be used to make many kinds of baked pastry parcels.
3) Boucaj (Lebanese Flower Baklava)
A more attractive cousin of layered baklava, this recipe forms flaky stacks of filo into 'petals' around a filling of chopped walnuts, almonds and pistachios. This baklava uses less sugar and syrup than the traditional formula, for a lighter, healthier result.
4) Strifti Hortapita (Greens & Cheese Filo Spiral Pie)
A delicious blend of creamy ricotta cheese, mixed greens (leeks, spinack and rocket), eggs and lemon is rolled up in filo pastry and coiled into this pretty spiral-shaped Greek pie. Variations of this are made all around the shores of the Mediterranean.
Technique notes: How to store, defrost, handle and bake with filo; how to make clarified butter for brushing filo pastries; how to vary pastry fillings and shapes.
Bonus Recipes
(For you to try at home):
5) Pear & Almond Strudel
Here's one for pear fans! Tender pears and fragrant almonds take the place of apples and raisins in this aromatic alternative to apple strudel.
6) Spiced Minced Meat & Pine Nut Filling
A tasty Middle-Eastern-style preparation of minced beef or lamb and toasted pine nuts, infused with garlic, onion and a hint of cinnamon and cumin. This can be used to stuff both spiral pies and samosas.
7) Roasted Vegetable & Walnut Strudel
A savoury filo strudel with autumnal flavours; the filling is a melange of pumpkin, capsicum, zucchini and onion, roasted together and tossed with toasted walnuts, sage and rosemary.

WHAT THE FRENCH REALLY EAT!
(New Recipes!)

Award-Winning Chef Patrick Heuberger
Exec Chef & Part-Owner, Le Bistrot du Sommelier


3.00pm-6.00pm
(3hrs with an interval)

Retail Shop & Office Hours: 12.30pm to 8.30pm

Demo + Recipe Pack + Substantial Food Tasting

Difficulty Rating:3/5
(Some background preferable)

Non-Members: S$119 nett*
Members: S$107.10 nett
Prepayment Required.

Demo + Substantial Food Tasting:
1) Oven-Roasted Lamb Rack with Garlic and Olive Oil Mash Potatoes
(Carre d'Agneau)
2) Braised Ox Tongue in Horseradish Sauce
(Langue de Boeuf au Raifort)
3) Sauteed Frog Legs with Garlic and Parsley
(Cuisses de grenouilles)
4) Rabbit Stew with Mustard
(Lapin a la Dijonaise)
Bonus Recipes
(For you to try at home):
5) Snails Baked in Garlic Butter Burgundy-Style
(Escargot au beurre d'ail)

Complimentary wine will be served. Sponsored by Le Bistrot Du Sommelier.
18 (MORNING) 18 (AFTERNOON) 19 (AFTERNOON)
FRENCH BISTRO FAVOURITES
(New Recipes!)

Award-Winning Chef Patrick Heuberger
Exec Chef & Part-Owner, Le Bistrot du Sommelier


10.00am-12.15pm
(2hrs 15mins with an interval)

Retail Shop & Office Hours: 9.00am to 8.30pm

Demo + Recipe Pack + Substantial Food Tasting

Difficulty Rating:2/5
(Little background preferable)

Non-Members: S$99 nett*
Members: S$89.10 nett
Prepayment Required.

1) Baked Burgundy-Style Escargot with Tomato & Garlic Butter (My Grand Mother's Way)
Learn the proper way to clean store-bought canned French snails (available at our shop) and bake it using his family's easy & reliable recipe.
2) Papillote
Oven-baked French cod in a 'Papillotte' (parcel) with fresh vegetables, clams, basil & olive oil. A practical & easy cooking method in which the food is put into a folded pouch/parcel then baked. The parcel is typically made from folded parchment paper which holds in moisture and steams the food.
3) Choux Buns Filled with Vanilla Ice Cream in Warm Valrhona Chocolate Sauce
Learn how to make choux pastry, slice then fill with store-bought gourmet vanilla ice cream and drench in homemade Valrhona dark chocolate sauce.

Complimentary wine will be served. Sponsored by Le Bistrot Du Sommelier.

THAI CLASSICS 2
(Repeat - Back by Popular Demand!)

Chef Forest Leong, Cookbook Author

4.00pm-6.30pm
(2hrs 30mins with an interval)

Retail Shop & Office Hours: 9.00am to 8.30pm

Demo + Substantial Food Tasting + Cookbook Signing

Difficulty Rating:2/5
(No or little background required)

Non-Members: S$99 nett*
Members: S$89.10 nett
Prepayment Required.

1) Glass Noodle Salad
(yum woon-sen)
A savoury tangy noodle salad that serves as light appetiser.
2) Rice Cracker with Prawns & Pork in Peanut Sauce
(khao tung na tang)
Jazz up a party or casual meal with this popular savoury, nutty dip made with minced prawns and pork on a crispy little rice cracker.
3) Green Curry Chicken
(kaeng keaw wan kai)
A smooth, velvety curry that is subtley sweet, sour and spicy all at one, with the creaminess of a light coconut sauce.
4) Tapioca in Syrup
(kra nom mann chiem)
Glossy soft tapioca drizzled with a fragrant coconut syrup - learn how to properly select the right tapioca.

Served with Thai Lemongrass Tea.
CHICKEN
(New Recipes!)

Chef Elsa Van der Nest, Cookbook Author.
Exec Chef & Owner, Elsa & Company


3.00pm-6.30pm
(3hrs 30mins with an interval)

Retail Shop & Office Hours: 12.30pm to 8.30pm

Demo + Recipe Pack + Substantial Food Tasting

Difficulty Rating:2/5
(No or little background required)

Non-Members: S$109 nett*
Members: S$98.10 nett
Prepayment Required.

1) Chicken Caesar Salad
Romaine lettuce with tender chicken, croutons and a homemade salad dressing.
2) Roast Chicken with Herb Stuffing and
Mango Salsa

Learn how to cook the perfect roast chicken with aromatic fresh herbs.
3) Chicken Casserole with Sweet Paprika and Tomatoes
An easy and reliable one-pot dish.
4) Poussin with Mushrooms Caraway, Vodka and Cream
Tender juicy and flavourful baby chicken a mushroom and cream sauce.
5) Zucchini with Raisins and Pine Nuts
A delicious easy and healthy side dish to pair with chicken.
25 (MORNING) 25 (AFTERNOON) 26 (AFTERNOON)
MUFFINS & SCONES 2
(SWEET & SAVOURY)
(New Recipes!)

Chef Audrey Tan, Head Chef & Chef-Owner
Freshly Baked


10.00am-12.30pm
(2hrs 30mins with an interval)

Retail Shop & Office Hours: 9.00am to 8.30pm

Demo + Recipe Pack + A Substantial Box of Freshly Baked Treats to Take Home

Difficulty Rating:2/5
(No or little background required)

Non-Members: S$119 nett*
Members: S$107.10 nett
Prepayment Required.

1) Cheddar Cheese Scones
A delicious savoury scone made of slightly salty sharp cheese and fine herbs. Quick to make, golden and tender. These cheese-topped scones are delicious not only with soup but also on their own. Baked in a beautiful Nordic Ware scone pan to form large triangular scones.
2) Pear and Walnut Muffins with a Walnut Brown Sugar Crumble Topping
The combination of fruit and nut makes it perfect with cheese, cheese spreads or on its own.
3) Honey Date and Pecan Muffins
Light, tender, moist muffin, with chunks of honey-date sweetness and the crunch of pecans.
4) Oat and Apricot Scones
Made with oat meal and dried apricots, healthy scones that are also hearty and deliciously satisfying.
5) Treacle Scones
A traditional Scottish recipe, made with treacle (more commonly known as 'molasses', a type of brown sugar) flavoured with spice.
6) English Muffins
Also known as a hot muffin or a breakfast muffin. A round yeast-leavened form of bread. Can be served as an afternoon meal or snack.
THAI CLASSICS 6
(Repeat - Back by Popular Demand)

Chef Forest Leong, Cookbook Author

4.00pm-6.30pm
(2hrs 30mins with an interval)

Retail Shop & Office Hours: 9.00am to 8.30pm

Demo + Substantial Food Tasting + Cookbook Signing

Difficulty Rating:2/5
(No or little background required)

Non-Members: S$99 nett*
Members: S$89.10 nett
Prepayment Required.

1) Seafood Salad
(yum ta lay)
Lightly cooked seafood, laced with a delicate spicy dressing made of fish sauce, a key Thai ingredient, garlic oil and fresh lime juice.
2) Thai Fish Maw Soup
(kar por par nam dang)
Sometimes a cheaper alternative to shark's fine soup, this simple yet sophisticated soup has fish maw, Chinese mushrooms, crabmeat and hard-boiled quails eggs in a light clear broth.
3) Fish Patties
(tod man par)
Firm yet tender and crunchy fish patties or 'cakes' made of fresh fillets, seasoned with aromatics like kaffir lime leaves and basil; seasoned with fish sauce, palm sugar. Served with sweet Thai chilli sauce and freshly sliced cucumber.
4) Egg Custard in Pumpkin
(sang kar ya fuk tong)
A simple dessert of creamy, sweet custard that can be enjoyed warm or chilled.

Served with Thai Lemongrass Tea.
EASY ITALIAN SNACKS
(New Recipes!)

Chef Elsa Van der Nest, Cookbook Author.
Exec Chef & Owner, Elsa & Company


3.00pm-6.30pm
(3hrs 30mins with an interval)

Retail Shop & Office Hours: 12.30pm to 8.30pm

Demo + Recipe Pack + Food Tasting

Difficulty Rating:2/5
(No or little background required)

Non-Members: S$109 nett*
Members: S$98.10 nett
Prepayment Required.

Great recipes to serve as canapes, an appetiser or as a side dish!
1) Rocket & Salami Frittatas (Master recipe with variations, such as, ham and cheese, brown mushrooms and cheese)
A traditional Italian omelette filled with meat and vegetables, baked in a silicone mould to create bite-sized savoury pieces - great for cooks who don't like the hassle of a pie crust but love the quiche-like soft eggy custardy filling!
2) Vegetable Tarts
Spinach, ricotta and fresh herb tarts, as a big or small tart, using store-bought short-crust pastry.
3) Grilled Figs with Feta and Prosciutto
Prosciutto (Italian cured ham) with figs, a play on the popular summer appetiser which traditionally uses honeydew or cantaloupe.
4) Deep-Fried Stuffed Rice Balls
A Sicilian dish using leftover or freshly made risotto made of Italian Arborio rice, to form golden deep-fried rice balls stuffed with mozzarella cheese and marinated sun-dried tomatoes - perfect for a sophisticated party or children's snack!
5) Stuffed Mushrooms
Mushrooms stuffed with breadcrumbs, garlic, fresh oregano and parmesan cheese, drizzled with olive oil then baked until tender and juicy - a great canape or side dish!
Bonus Recipes
(For you to try at home, not demo-ed):
6) Mini Pizza Margharitas & Variations
Bite-sized pizzas that make a fantastic appetiser or snack for a children's party!