Food Science?Culinology?Culinary Art?Hotel management?

Okay, nothing about food for this post. Its serious business.After 2007, friends of mine are all taking off to a new direction, new environment. For me, i am still wondering what can i do after graduated from high school. I have passion to cook, eat and sleep... i mean not sleep but creating new dishes.  These are some option for people like me.

FOOD SCIENCE
Food science is a discipline concerned with all technical aspects of food, beginning with harvesting or slaughtering, and ending with its cooking and consumption. It is considered one of the agricultural sciences, and is usually considered distinct from the field of nutrition.Lets make it short, food science means "science of food", anything related to food by using science CONCEPT.

Food safety,Food microbiology ,Food preservation,Food engineering,Product development,Food chemistry,Food packaging,Molecular gastronomy,Food technology and Food physics are what a person will study along the course.

As you can see, you need to have good grades for your science subjects,and thats what i am studying, but suck at it. "Student that get 12-16 A1 in Malaysia are still JAHIL". Not Many people in Malaysia went into this course because its still a kind of new subject. After graduated, you will get a bachelor degree. Company such as Pepsi, Nestle, Colo, Dutch lady might tap you up for a job, working in a lab and good pay.(If you are lucky)

CULINOLOGY
Culinology is an approach to food that blends the culinary arts and food technology. Its a really new field which created by the first president and founder of the Research Chefs Association, Winston Riley.Culinology is a new word too. You cant find it in a dictionary yet. ITs a combination of Culinary+ Technology.So the first meaning of the word was the convergence of culinary arts and all technology, which includes communications, chemistry, physiology, economics and many others.

I dont have much  detail about this course, because it is still fresh from oven.And again, chemistry , physics, and economics..... Sick.

CULINARY ART
Yeah...at last.Culinary art is the art of cooking. The word "culinary" is defined as something related to, or connected with cooking or kitchens.Normally, people who learnd culinary arts will become a cook or a chef.They work primarily in restaurants, fast food franchises, delicatessens, hospitals and other institutions and corporation. Kitchen conditions vary depending on the type of business, restaurant, nursing home etc.It is a diploma subject, takes a round 1-3 years to complete.

Executive chef, sous chef, pastry chef, chef de cuisine are some example of top level chef.Its not easy to get to the top, maybe 6-10 years, depend on your hardwork and abit of luck.Chefs life aretough, starting with low pay, long hours, hot kitchen, odd hours, and anti-social.Dont think you will be one on the tv like Jamie Oliver ,Gordon Ramsey and Chef Wan.They are a few in a million. Life of a chef is not as fantasy as you think.


(chef wan)


HOTEL MANAGEMENT
This program provides industry professionals with sound knowledge , strong decision-making and team skills, and rich global perspective.Its a position those executives for new levels of innovative management and the creative thinking that an advancing international hotels. resort, hospitality or restaurant business demands.

Throughout the whole course, you will learn how to manage hospitality in international context, strategic principles,leading and managing people, managing a restaurant, housekeeping, risk and contingency management and so on.

Every hotels need a good management board.  A management board needs good managing teams.Room division manager,financial Controller, 
banquet manager , human resources manager and many other team. There are over 100 working in a hotel. The bigger the hotel , the more employee they need. Imagine there are 100 hotels in KL, how many employee they need?


So , have you make up your mind? I Haven't.  Give me some idea and comment please.

Spaghetti recipes

Spaghetti can be prepared or cooked easily...Maybe you just need to spend around half an hour in the kitchen and you can enjoy the product of it.These are some basic and easy spaghetti recipes. Enjoy it.

Spaghetti Bolognese
100g  spaghetti
oil
salt
100+- g lean minced beef
pepper
1/4 onion(chopped)
2 button mushroom  
2  tomatoes (diced,peel)
1 teaspoon basil
2+- tbs tomato puree( depend on colour you like)
1 tsp oregano
parmesan cheese
Chicken Stock /water

Procedures
1)Cook the spaghetti in a pot of boiling water for 10-12 min.
2)Add in a suitable amount of oil into a frying pan ,fry the onion until fragrant, add in minced beef and fry for 2 min with medium-high temperature.
3)Add in mushroom. Fry for a while.
4)Add in tomatoes and tomato puree.Once boiled, switch to low heat n stirfry it.For another 2 min.
5)Add in basil and oregano(can get this fresh or dried in supermarkets easily). Cook for 5 minute.
6)If the sauce is too dry, add in stock or water.Taste it by adding salt and pepper.
7)Drain the spaghetti and put it on a plate.Scoop the sauce onto the spaghetti.Finally, top it with granted parmesan cheese.  





Spaghetti Bolognese



This is just a guide for beginner.There are many ways of cooking spaghetti bolognese.So, good luck to those who try out this recipe.


Spaghetti with bacon and button mushroom cream sauce
1 tbs oil
1-2 tbs  grated Parmesan cheese
a slice of bacon( cut into smaller pieces)
2 button mushrooms
100ml cream
1tsp butter
Black pepper and salt to taste
100g spaghetti
1 tsp parsley flake
1/4 onion(chopped/fine)
1 clove of garlic(chopped/fine)
Chicken stock / water


Procedures
1)Boil the spaghetti in a pot of boiling water for 10-12 min
2)By using another pan, add in oil and fry the bacon until golden brown.
3) Add in onion and garlic, fry till fragrant.
4) Stir in button mushroom,add in butter and fry.
5)pour in cream, turn to low heat.Add in parsley flakes .
6)Pour in the cooked spaghetti into the pan and fry for a minute.At the same time, add in grated parmesan cheese.Finally, add in salt and pepper to taste.
7) If the spaghetti turns too dry, add in stock or water to dilute it.(Same time in the pan)



(Ben love this although there are no cheese in it)

Spaghetti with bacon and button mushroom cream sauce




Notes:
1)Its better to get parmesan cheese in a block than grated parmesan cheese.Its more fresh and taste better.
2)You can add in white wine in the spaghetti with bacon and button mushroom cream sauce, which will give you a whole new taste.
3)The quantity of ingredients are flexible.The recipes above are made for 1 pax.(maybe american size).

Suggestion:
1) For a healthier diet, substitute cream with milk, butter with oil.
2) Add in some vegs(bolognese: celery)(cream sauce: green pea, brocolli).

Thats all from now.Hope you can learn something from here.
Thank you

woel

Stocks- The key of great taste

I have provided a basic stock recipes, I suggest you try making it at lest once before using those canned stocks.The canned stuff is very convenient. I use it myself occasion. But making stock is not as hard as you may think. And the canned stuff is usually not much more than salty water.

Chicken Stock
1kg of chicken breast and chicken bones 
2L of water 
3 celery stalks, chopped
2-3 carrots, sliced thick, no need to peel
2 yellow onions, peeled and quartered
1 bay leaf( optional)

First, clean up the chicken bones and chicken breast.Put the chicken breast and bones into a pot of boiling water to wash of the blood and smells.Just for a minute.Bring up the chicken and pour it into 2L of water and start boiling.Add in celery, carrot,onions and bay leaf(optional) and simmer for 2-3 hours with medium/low fire.Strain out the meat , bones and veg and that's it. The stock is ready to be used!!
(No msg, no preservative, no colouring, no salt)= healthy

Anything unclear please leave a question. Thanks.

Love you tongue ,nose and eyes

Did you ever wonder why your favourite food taste so good? Have you ever thought about why foods taste different? It's really quite amazing. Your tongue and the roof of your mouth are covered with thousands of tiny taste buds. When you eat something, the saliva in your mouth helps break down your food. This causes the receptor cells located in your tastes buds to send messages through sensory nerves to your brain. Your brain then tells you what flavors you are tasting.




Taste buds probably play the most important part in helping you enjoy the many flavors of food. Your taste buds can recognize four basic kinds of tastes: sweet, salty, sour, and bitter. The salty/sweet taste buds are located near the front of your tongue; the sour taste buds line the sides of your tongue; and the bitter taste buds are found at the very back of your tongue.

Everyone's tastes are different. In fact, your tastes will change as you get older. When you were a baby, you had taste buds, not only on your tongue, but on the sides and roof of your mouth. This means you were very sensitive to different foods. As you grew, the taste buds began to disappear from the sides and roof of your mouth, leaving taste buds mostly on your tongue. As you get older, your taste buds will become even less sensitive, so you will be more likely to eat foods that you thought were too strong as a child.

Besides that,nose and eyes are also quite important when you are eating.
Look at what you eat, if not terrible things might get into your mouth which taste like "chow taufu".Your nose and taste buds works perfectly to create the true flavour of food! Smell your food, dont sniff. Without smelling, we can't differentiate food properly.Try holding your nose the next time you eat something. You'll notice that your taste buds are able to tell your brain something about what you're eating - that it's sweet, for instance - but you won't be able to pick the exact flavor until you let go of your nose.
Therefore, love your tongue , nose and eyes.



God created us for good, not for bad.

Sudden cooking

What is sudden cooking means? Let me briefly explain the meaning of it. 
This blog is mainly talking about food, cooking, recipes, ingredients and things which are related to food. I love to cook, doing weird experiments on food, and sharing what I've learn for the past 10 years. If anyone loves to eat( By the way, who doesn't love to eat?) , you should be at the right place.

Why is there a SUDDEN????
This word come from my SUDDEN physics teacher, Mr.XXX. As you can see below,
my SUDDEN teacher.He is a cool guy, came to our school so SUDDEN and gave us SUDDEN test.
All of a SUDDEN, i created this cooking blog."Everything happen so SUDDEN, nobody know how to deal with it".Thats where i found the inspiration of "SUDDEN COOKING".







Mr.XXX( My SUDDEN teacher)



Now, i can look foward writing more post on food.For those who wish to keep in touch with me,
leave a comment and link me up! ^^Thanks.
(Apologize me if there are typing error) 

woel