The Weekend #3: Sunday

“In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace…”

And on the third, He rose again.

This last dish is a representation of the glorious and victorious event that happened on that day – the rebirth of Christ. It was a day that led to a new life, making it an obvious choice to use a white element as the centrepiece of the dish as a symbol of purity and wholeness. Clean flavours are maintained throughout the dish to cleanse the palate after a heavy and textural second course. A light coconut panna cotta combined with citrusy passionfruit gel and crisp fresh mint brings a clean finish with every spoonful.

The Weekend #2: Saturday

“…and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.”

The day after Jesus died was the day He lay in the tomb. What a day it must have been for the many who believed in Him to be the Son of God. This second dish is built upon this idea, with bitter and sour tastes representing the feelings of the disciples on Easter Saturday.

The Weekend #1: Friday

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” John 3:16 is the promise in which all Christians believe in. But for this to have happened, Jesus gave His life on the cross. The first dish, Friday, is our interpretation of the events that took place on that day.

The Weekend

 

We love food, and we love Jesus.

Combining the two, we conceptualised an idea for our Additional Piece assignment that revolved around food — namely, The Weekend.

Healthy Orange Poppyseed Cake GF DF

“Healthy” is a really ambiguous term. People have different definitions of healthy. For some it means going back to the caveman diet – paleo, and for others it might just mean cutting out sugar or gluten. Now look. This cake is a gem. Whatever diet you follow, you can make changes to it so that it can suit you (ha yes you can say this for every recipe but whatever just let it go).

After a few weeks of ‘crappy’ meals a.k.a throwing everything into a pot to steam/boil food (yes thats how I normally cook lol), I/we decided to make something good today, even though its 2 weeks to our finals. Great choice. (I really think it is).

(VERY) Matcha soufflé cheesecake

Our exams are in fifteen days and we have a separate assignment deadline coming up pretty soon.

Yep.

This cake wasn’t in the plan. It wasn’t supposed to happen. We’re second year med students and we are supposed to be busy with work.

But guess what? We (ok just 1/2 of we so its just me guess who) had a craving for cake. Cheese cake to be exact, and it didn’t matter what type or whatever. We(again, just I to be honest) just wanted to stuff some cheesecake into our mouths . So in our plans we were supposed to make this cheesecake “soon”. But this “soon” became almost immediately and … Cheesecake happened.

Paleo Matcha Lava Cake

!!!!!!

Admit it. You thought it wasn’t possible. After all, if you Googled for paleo matcha lava cake… you wouldn’t find a recipe for it (or at least I didn’t). So we wrote one, and tried it (almost) right away. It’s healthy, actually guilt-free, it’s easy and most importantly really yummy…

Dark Chocolate (Butterscotch) Tart

Rich, decadent, sublime.

We’d been wanting to make tarts for a while now, but we kept putting it off. Up until we got our hands on some $2 bars of heavily discounted Lindt chocolate! We went for our favourite 90% bars, snagging several to stock up for those non-sale periods. While thinking of ideas for the tart filling, we decided to make something amazing out of the many chocolate bars and settled on a dark chocolate filling. But the ideas kept on coming, so why not add butterscotch to the filling for that extra dimension!

The initial idea was to create the tart filling in two layers, with butterscotch below the chocolate, but alas, disasters happen. As the chocolate filling cooked in the oven, the less dense butterscotch layer was displaced and boiled at the edges of the tart. But nothing’s ever truly a flavour disaster in this kitchen, as what resulted was a lovely butterscotch-coated tart with a dark filling that provided great contrast against the sweet crust that held it. Delicious!

The flavours therefore worked well, but the execution needed some work. We decided to maintain the flavour profile of the tart by instead glazing the tart with the rich butterscotch and then filling it with the dark chocolate mixture. The 90% bars we used gave a strong bitterness that may not agree with the palates of many, so we recommend using a 60-80% dark chocolate instead unless you’re a diehard fan of super-dark varieties like we are.