2011/6/12 Faye’s school PTA cooking class

Tyler and Faye’s examination came to an end last Tuesday.  Tin and I were very relaxed and delighted.  We were very busy partying and joining different activities.  Today, Faye and I went to a parent-child cooking class at Towngas Cooking Centre, which was organized by her school PTA.

We took bus no. 113 to Happy Valley early in the morning.  It was raining lightly.  We arrived at Towngas around 30 minutes prior to the start of the class.  At first I worried how to kill time.  A few minutes later, we were so surprise to meet Leslie!!! The girls were very happy, so as their moms!

What a coincidence!  We also met Joanne’s mom, who attended the class with her elder daughter.  As some parents were late (we learnt later that day that the amber rainstorm signal was in force during the class), we took some group photos first.  Faye and Leslie were waiting patiently for the class to start.

The teacher, Mia, explained and demonstrated the procedures to us.  We were going to cook two dishes: Japanese Fried Udon and Red Bean Pastry.  Thanks Mia for explaining why eggs should not be beaten in preparing ‘paste’.

 

Faye helped whisk the paste.  Leslie’s mom helped take photo :)

Faye wanted to cut the lovely Japanese fish roll.  However, the chopper was too heavy.  I had to hold her hand.  It was not practical to cut in this silly way, therefore, I gave her a dinner knife.  She handled it quite well.

Faye was quite patient and very eager to learn to cook.  She helped loosen the udon.

It was only a 2-hour class but cooking took time.  In order to complete our tasks, I passed the pancake frying job to Faye.  I fried 2 pancakes as demonstration and watched her fried 2 afterwards.  Pass!!!  She was so eager and delighted…

Step 1: Off the fire, place 1 spoonful of paste into the frying pan and make it round . Step 2: Put the pan on the stove.

Step 3: Wait patiently until bubbles formed and surface is set.  Step 4: Use a knife to flip the pancake. 

Step 5: Count from 1 to 10.  Place the pancake to a plate.  Faye fried over 10 pancakes!

Step 6: Spread the red bean paste on the pancake and serve.

The knife was quite short.  Teacher Mia warned us to avoid burning our hands.  Although I reminded Faye again and again, her hand touched the frying pan.  Since then, her ‘frying’ interest dropped significantly.  A blister was formed later that day. 

We were able to finish all the cooking by noon.  We ate some of our udon and the teacher’s pancake before saying goodbye.  What a wonderful activity.  We love cooking class!