Week 6 Ballymaloe

Pizza, Burgers , Duck ,Wine and Tapas

Our 6 week exam was held on Friday .
We had to identify 10 herbs and 10 salad leafs as well as a practical exam, mine was chop and sweat an onion , make a paper piping bag , chop a cucumber and make short crust pastry and line a pastry tin .
Last week we had Peggie's birthday a night with amazing food and drink. Last night Mark once again hosted another great party a BBQ .

On Saturdays the school has a Pizza bar open and for around 10 euro you can get an amazing Pizza cooked in the wood fire oven check out the photos below.

I made my house mates Dak-Dori-Tang
Korean chicken stew
Here is the recipe
2 chickens
1/2 cup of dark soy sauce
2 inches of chopped ginger
5 cloves of garlic
6 carrots
6 potatoes
3 onions
sugar or honey
black pepper and salt
gochujang (Korean red pepper paste)

Steam the chopped up skinned chicken in a little water for 10 -15 mins
Keep the water .
Mix the garlic, ginger, honey, salt, pepper and soy sauce together.
In a large pot add the chicken , potatoes , onions and carrots . Add the sauce and may be a little of the chicken cooking water. Simmer until the potatoes are cooked .
Serve with rice .