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Thursday 20 August 2015
Do you ever wish...
Wednesday 19 August 2015
Friday 14 August 2015
Mariella's Restaurant Suggestions
Many of you have asked for some restaurant suggestions in London. Here are mine!
Namo
Little Korea
Brasserie Zedel
French ££
Piccadilly Circus
Namo
Vietnamese ££
Victoria Park, Hackney
Little Korea
Korean ££
Leicester Square
Leicester Square
Veeraswamy
Indian £££
(book for Sunday lunch! £26 for 3 course meal!!)
(book for Sunday lunch! £26 for 3 course meal!!)
Regent Street
Franco Manca
Italian £
Tottenham Court Road/Broadway Market
Hummus Bros
Mediterranean £
Holborn/Wardour Street + more
The Real Greek
Greek ££
Covent Garden + more
Byron Burgers
American ££
Wardour Street + more
Cote
French ££
Wardour Street + more
Wagamama
Japanese ££
Southbank + more
Dub Jam
Caribbean ££
Covent Garden
£££ - £30 +
££ - £13-25
£ - £6-15
(per person)
Farewell!
Goodbye to Kacper, Zuzana, Beyza, Marian and Laurent!!!! (and Mariella!)
Wonderful students! Keep practising and enjoy your next step. Good luck to all of you. Keep in touch and keep working hard.
For those who haven't left, continue enjoying, working hard and remember to say HELLO to Mariella who will now be teaching afternoons!
Marco asks, "Have you ever tasted a real 'Spaghetti alla Carbonara'” ??????
A lot of people like “Italian
Cooking” but what they really know about it ?
The majority of strangers eat
Italian food in their own countries, in restaurants that seems Italian but aren’t, cooked by
chefs came out of nowhere.I will just give you one example in order to show
you how this could work. Let’s try to find the Carbonara Recipe on internet.
I’ve typed on Google “ Carbonara Recipe” and I’ve found from bbcgoodfood the
following recipe:
Learn
to make Spaghetti Carbonara:
Ingredients: 400 g
spaghetti, 1 tbsp olive oil, 200 g smoked pancetta cubes or streaky bacon,
chopped, 2 garlic cloves, crushed, 3 eggs, 75 ml double cream, 50 g Grana padano
or parmesan, finely grated, plus extra to serve
Method:
1° Cook the
spaghetti. Bring a large, deep pan of salted water to the boil. Plunge
spaghetti into the water, stir well and cook, following pack instructions. Aim
for 'al dente': cooked, but retaining some bite in the middle. Take a few
strands out of the water with a spaghetti spoon or tongs 1-2 mins before the
end of the cooking time and bite into it. Repeat until you think it is properly
cooked.
2° Fry the pancetta.
Meanwhile, heat the oil in a frying pan. When hot, tip in the pancetta or
streaky bacon. Fry over a medium heat until the fat in the meat has melted down
into the pan and the meat has turned lightly golden. Be careful not to crisp
the pancetta too much; it will be cooked a little bit more later on in the
recipe. Remove from the heat and set aside.
3° Prepare the sauce. Crack 2 of the eggs into a mixing bowl.
Separate the yolk from the third egg: gently crack the side of the shell and,
using both hands, slowly open it into two halves over a separate bowl - you
want to keep the yolk in one of the halves. Tip the yolk from one shell half to
the other and repeat until all the egg white has fallen into the bowl below,
taking care not to crack the yolk on any rough shell edges. Tip the yolk in
with the other eggs and beat together, along with the cream, the cheese and
some seasoning.
4° Combine the dish.
Add garlic to the pancetta and return frying pan to hob. Fry over high heat for
1 min or until garlic is cooked and pancetta warmed through. Meanwhile, drain
spaghetti. Tip back into the hot saucepan off the heat. Pour egg mixture over
pasta, followed by hot pancetta, garlic, any fat and oils. Toss quickly and
thoroughly with spaghetti spoon or tongs. Mix until it has thickened to a
smooth, creamy sauce. Serve with extra cheese and freshly ground pepper.
Do
you think an Italian cooks “Spaghetti alla Carbonara” in this manner ???
None, only between the ingredients there are 5
errors.
Here's the Italian recipe.
Spaghetti alla Carbonara
Ingredients:
350 g spaghetti, 150 jowl bacon chopped into cubes, 4 eggs, 100 g of
Pecorino
Method:
1° Cook the
spaghetti. Bring a large, deep pan of water to the boil, then add salt, not as
usual, because jowl bacon and pecorino are salty. Plunge spaghetti into the
water, stir well and cook, following pack instructions. Aim for 'al dente':
cooked, but retaining some bite in the middle. Take a few strands out of the
water with a spaghetti spoon or tongs 1-2 mins before the end of the cooking
time and bite into it. Repeat until you think it is properly cooked.
2° Fry jowl bacon chopped without oil
in a frying pan. Fry over a medium heat until the fat in the meat has melted
down into the pan and the meat has turned lightly golden. Be careful not to
crisp the pancetta too much. Remove from the heat and set aside until it will
become lukewarm.
3° Prepare the
sauce. Crack 4 of the eggs into a mixing bowl and beat together, along with the
cheese and some black pepper.
4° Combine
the dish. Add to the sauce to jowl bacon in the bowl. Meanwhile, drain
spaghetti. Put the drained spaghetti into the bowl. Toss quickly and thoroughly
with spaghetti spoon or tongs. Mix until it has created to a smooth, creamy
sauce. Serve with pepper.
Wednesday 12 August 2015
Tips for people travelling to Turkey!
Beyza and Betul want to make sure you have a smooth trip to Turkey so they offer the following advice:
- Not wearing a headscarf in mosques can cause offense
- Kissing on both cheeks is common
- Helping people is common in Turkey
- Eating breakfast can take a long time because theTurkish breakfast is huge
- Giving seats to pregnant women and disabled people or even women is polite.
- People are open to personal questions, it is not a taboo
- Visiting the Bosphorus in İstanbul is a great idea
- Trying Baklava and the Turkish Kebab is recommended
- Travelling to Capadocia and watching the hot air balloons is recommended, especially at sunrise
- Drinking Turkish coffee, which is special for Turkey, is recommended
- There are a lot of historical buildings and all of them are worth seeing.
Tips for people travelling to Italy!
Marco offer some helpful hints about social codes in Italy:
- Using the phone on the bus, talking loudly, could be annoying
- Not respecting queues could be rude, but a lot of people do it
- Smelling bad on the bus will be considered a lack of respect
- Blasheming in public places wil not be accepted.
- Making racist remarks is against the law
- Not helping people in trouble will lose you many friends
- Not leaving tips for waiters will make you appear as cheap
- If you’re invited to dinner by an Italian taking a small present, for example flowers, will be considered a kind gesture, but pay attention you should never take “Chrysanthemums”, Italians use them for dead people in cemeteries
- Having a business appointment with an Italian could be surprising: being five or ten minutes late for him is normal even if he expects you to be on time.
- As sometimes Italians judge people by their dress, appropriate dressing for different occasions will give you an opportunity to not be considered shameless or without self respect.
Tips for people travelling to Venezuela!
Marian, Oscar and Luis suggest the following if you decide to take a trip to Venezuela:
- Responding hello, good morning, good bye, etc. is very important
- Talking about politics might cause offence
- Accepting invitations is very important
- Talking with strangers is very common
- Giving tips is customary
- Giving up your seat to women, pregnant women and elderly people is an unwritten rule
- Bringing a dessert or alcohol to a party is always welcome
- Sleeping outside is very common
- Hearing compliments in the street is common
- Greeting with kisses and hugs is well received
Class trip to Borough Market
To prepare, the students had to create 20 tasks for other students to do at the market.They included speaking to the stall-holders, finding stalls which sold different delicacies. Everyone enjoyed breakfast and a coffee at the market AND got to practise the indirect questions they had been studying about!
Monday 6 July 2015
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