“So if we are Incredible EDIBLE, perhaps we ought to cook more with our own produce?” was the question Roye raised at our last reflection session. The challenge was on, and Roye and Christian set to work finding recipes that used stuff we grew in the garden. They found two recipes: for Pandan Pancakes and Vegetarian Laksa.
Last week we booked the food tech labs and arrived at the lab, clutching ingredients from the supermarket and fresh produce from our own garden: laksa leaves, pandan leaves, chillies, and limes.
It quickly emerged that we did not have all the ingredients we needed (due to a mis communicaiton around the shopping list) and so despite a valiant attempt to retrieve eggs from the boarding house by Henry, we sadly decided to ditch the Pandan plan (the dodgy looking pandan juice and sugar water went down the drain).
Instead we focused on the Laksa. Many valuable lessons were learned in this session:
- Noodles actually taste nice no matter what you do to them
- Read the recipe carefully – 3 cm of ginger is not the same as 3 sticks of ginger
- Too many cooks really do spoil the broth, but its a lot more fun when all the cooks are cooking together
- Preparation before you start to cook makes all the difference
- The Incredible Edible Wednesday group really know how to work as a team
I wont pretend that it was the best Laksa we had ever had, but it was one of our best sessions ever and I was proud of the team and how much fun we were able to have even when things did not go to plan!
Well done to Roye and Christian for planning a session that really bonded us as a group!