FOOD TECHNOLOGY

In term 4, the year 9 Food Technology class completed two units of learning – Flavour Forecast Recipe Challenge and Cake Decoration. The Flavour Forecast Recipe Challenge involved exploring the two flavour trends identified by McCormick for 2020: Refresh, Replenish and Rehydrate AND Sauced & Spiced. The challenge was to choose one of these key trends and using the set ingredients, develop one flavoursome, contemporary dish that could be made in the Home Economics kitchen. The designed dish also had to promote a variety of fresh foods (in addition to the set ingredients) and reflect the current Australian Dietary Guidelines. Students took the challenge very positively and engaged well with the learning during lessons.

The dishes developed by the students were very creative, involving some complex cooking techniques and the presentations were quite impressive! Mr. Ward, Mr. Files and Mr. Young had the difficult job of judging the best dish from of a range of highly competitive work presented by the students.

Within a very close margin, Amina and Nicole took out this challenge with their contemporary and healthy Chicken Shawarma served with mint and yoghurt sauce. Marissa, Mikayla and Stephanie scored  second place with a difference of 3 points. Finally with a margin of 1 point, was a tie for 3^rd place between Sakina, Armandeep and Lachlan and Froso, Jorja and Alex.  Some of the comments provided by our judges were, “perfectly cooked moist chicken with a nice balance of flavours”, “will definitely buy this…”, “…would go for seconds…”.

In the cake decorating unit, students learnt about various techniques using buttercream, fondant and chocolate. For the assessment, students had to choose one of the given themes to make and decorate butter cupcakes which represented the current trends in cake decoration. Again, student engagement and the final work presented by all was outstanding.

Narinder Riar - Home Economics Teacher