How to cook with dairy and amazing milk!
Last weekend I was invited to cooking workshop with award-winning chef, Karen Martini. The event was hosted by Dairy Australia and the legendairy team. It was all about inspiring people to cook with dairy, especially the many wonderful sweet and savoury dishes you can create with milk. And it was so much fun! I took Miss A along with me.
The best thing about the day was spending one on one time with Miss A. In our fast-paced lives, it is near impossible for me to find one on one time with the girls. This event provided the perfect opportunity to have a day date with my eldest girl, and enthusiastic chef! We tasted, we watched, we cooked and we ate. We ate so well. We learnt how to make the perfect béchamel sauce, buttery scones, sweet and savoury hotcakes and then we had a cook off against the other contestants!!
We had about 15 minutes to prepare and cook some of Karen’s famous ricotta hot cakes. The requirements were: follow the recipe, create a 3-tier hotcake stack, choose between sweet and savoury toppings and plate up. We told we were being judged on taste, presentation and creativity. Miss A and I decided quickly we would do a sweet dish, and we got cooking. Our first hotcake wasn’t crash hot but Karen reminded us, the first one is usually not the best. We were down to the wire with only ten seconds to go when we plated up our dish and downed tools. We had so much fun and we were pretty pleased with our creation. We didn’t win, but we had such a fun time and the consolation prize was sitting down to a fabulous feast for lunch. YUM!!!!!!!!
Karen Martini giving us a cooking demo!
Karen Martini in action.
These scones were out of this world!
My béchamel sauce never tastes this good!
Bechamel sauce samples
The ingredients that we chose for our hot cakes: lemon curd, strawberries, mango, blueberries, chocolate, kiwi and pistachio nuts. Sometimes more is more!
Our selection for sweet hot cakes!
May I present to you, Miss A and Miss M’s sweet ricotta hotcakes!
Our masterpiece!
And because I like to share, below you’ll find the Ricotta Hotcakes recipe courtesy of Legendairy Ambassador, Karen Martini. Trust me, these are very, VERY good!
But wait, there’s MORE!
Make sure you’re following NASD on Facebook and Instagram for your chance to win one of Karen Martini’s fabulous cookbooks. There’s the opportunity to win one for yourself, and one for a friend!
You’re welcome! 🙂
This looks awesome – I would have loved to be part of something like this! I also was wondering if you would like to be a guest blogger on my blog http://www.goodfoodweek.com.au when I give birth to my third {in October – I’m giving you lots of time}. No pressure and you can definietly just let me know if you’re too busy. xox
Hi Shari, thanks. Yes, this even was so much fun! Email me at michaelafox@notanotherslipperydip.com and we can discuss a guest post. How exciting that your third bubba is on his/her way!!!