Eaten Brains??

Sorry for not updating my blog but here is some new things, there was a Food and Wine show in Sydney Darling Harbour and 1 of the chefs that came was my Idol Gordon Ramsay, i went to his show. but will write about his convention later.

Today was my 8th week in kitchen operations 3 which my chef described it as ' the worst class ever in this world' well thats because this week we are doing offal which are parts of animals which are not really cuts of meat but of organs such as the heart, liver, stomach, intestine and etc... in some countries some offals are considered as a delicacy where as some countries rarely eat or may even consider it to be repulsive to eat... like my chef said and a contestant from master chef Aus- Po ' its something which individual are brought up from' or your pellet is brought up by eating this type of things.

well on the menu today we cooked some ''lovely'':
-cows stomach with a tomato base sauce
-sweet bread ( Thymus gland) pan fried and serve with asparagus, herb butter and veal jus
- Lambs brain crumbed with bread crumbs and 3 types of herbs, pan fried and serves with a water cress base salad, truffle infuse butter and Court Bouillon sauce
- liver, char grill and serve with crispy bacon and herb butter

well personally i suppose i have been brought up by a family who has exposed me to all types of cuisine from western to asian cuisine i did not find the dishes too bad rather i found it as well~ kinda interesting... =) i didnt had a hard time trying out the liver, cows stomach and sweet bread only thing i found a bit weird in the beginning is to try the lamb brains which my chef forced each of us to taste.. but even so i end up eating d whole thing it was rather rich and tasty but with a vry vry creamy and silky texture which sort of like eating a really flabby piece of fat.. but the bread crumbs helped to give it a bit of crunchy texture..

so all together i kinda enjoyed this class to be honest offals may not be the most popular cuts or dishes in the world but if you are willing to give it a chance you will find that it's actually not that bad.. its actually quite tasty and rich in flavours... especially when served with the right compliments and sauce.