To live well, is to eat well !Do you use any herbs or spices in your food? Most of our herbs and spices we have in our kitchen often gets the least attention after the first few uses, but there are actually lots of health benefits from herbs and spices! Not only that, they also take the taste of our food to the next level! I was excited for this meet & greet knowing McCormick is a well known herbs and spices brand, and I even get to experience to cook using them in Chefology's newest range of cookware! I'm not really a cooking person, so all I could think of is making pancakes with them when I read the word non-stick pan! Few days ago, I got the opportunity to be invited for Spice Up Your Kitchen: A Blogger Meet & Greet hosted by Chefology and McCormick at The Cooking House, Bangsar. Walking through the door I smell the aroma of food immediately, I was greet by warm and friendly faces. A wide array of Chefology's newest cookware & McCormick's spices was placed in front of us with very Christmas-y decorations. Who doesn't love Christmas? Definitely NOT ME! Designed for comfort cooking, Chefology Nature cookware is made of die-cast aluminium, with a six-layer coating that ensures a safer cooking experience. The highly durable marble ceramic non stick coating are :
You can use them on all kinds of stove as it is made with highly durable lava stone. They surprised us with a cook off between the bloggers, I literally freaked out. I. CAN'T. COOK. OMG. After knowing that, I paid 100% attention to Chef Collin's demonstration for the recipes prepared for us. We will making Cheesy Black Pepper Chicken Salad & Basil Crepes with Caramelised Banana using the latest Chefology Nature cookware with a touch of authentic flavours from McCormick herbs and spices. We were grouped into 3 and I was together with my new friends, Kak Aida & Kak YuYu. They are both really experienced blogger and super friendly. Most importantly, they can cook... Which is a good thing because I am not too good in that. Without commands we automatically took charge of things we are better at. For me it was prepping the vegetables and decorations. I am definitely better at making crepes too than prepping a chicken! How good does this look?! Caramelising the bananas was my favourite part! After we're done cooking the chicken and crepes, decorating the food was the most important part of the cook off. We had so much fun decorating and platting the dishes together! Using our creativity, these were our finished products! We didn't expected much, the first thing we did after presenting our food was to eat it because we were so hungry after the cook off! I'm proud to say, they were so GOOD! Surprisingly, my team WON the cook off! I think we had an amazing team work throughout the cook off! Judges were impressed with our food plating too! Guess my smoothie bowl decorating skills came to a good use. Chef bayle is approved.I had such an enjoyable and creative experience today with Chefology and McCormick thanks to The Cooking House. Also, really grateful to meet more new people in this circle, I have so much more to learn! Really excited to make pancakes with my new NON STICK PAN! I was super impressed with the Chefology Nature's Fry Pan as we didn't use a single drop of oil or butter for the chicken nor the crepes. Suitable for us who is into healthy cooking and eating. So stay tune for a few recipes with my new kitchenware and spices! Till then, enjoy! xo stay tuned for my pancakes!
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Did someone say cooking workshop? And a blogger invitation Email?Oh. My. Gosh. 2 weeks ago I received an unusual email, with the title of Panasonic Blogger Get-Together Cooking Workshop Invitation! Invitation?!! Did I read it wrongly? I have never in the world have imagined me being at a blogger event! Like, I just share my food photos on Instagram, and now I'm here, writing a blog post about a blogger event?! HOW COOL IS THAT! I'm so glad I had the chance to be a part of this! My first ever invitation to an event, as a food blogger! I walked in Panasonic's Home2Com Solution Centre at Bangsar South, full of anticipation and excitement, then I was greet by friendly and warm faces, also a bouquet of beautiful flowers from Happy Bunch! this cubie oven though !This cute and compact oven took its name from the term 'cubical', which is designed for young and urban families to make quick and healthy meals! This oven is capable to steam, healthy fry, bake, roast, and also fermentation! It's able to fit a whole chicken and a 10 inch pizza. It is also very convenient, easy to operate and clean. Seems like my type of oven, with so much function in one, I have no excuses to not use this oven for pizza! I mean, healthy recipes of course. *coughs* The ingredients table set up was so on point! Beautifully organised and placed on the table, ready to be picked by us. Our beautiful chef of the day, Pei Ling was super enthusiastic and patient while teaching us the dishes we were making that day. Look how happy she is holding that gigantic mango that we're about to slice through for our first dish! Can you guess what we're making? chef at work yo.We were making Mango & Passion Fruit Crumble! It has a basic vanilla cake base, layered with mangoes and passion fruit, then topped with a layer of crumble! This was SO GOOD, the warm moist cake base soaked with juices from the fruits, and the combination of the sweet mango and sour passion fruit -- ON POINT! I'm so putting this combo into my next recipes! Just wait! All dishes were made in Le Creuset's colourful ceramic stoneware, they were absolutely cute, just look at the colours of these baby ramekins! We each got to bring them home with us, I've been wanting to get ramekins for the longest time and now my wish has been granted. Thanks to Panasonic & Le Creuset! Me and my mango crumble. Next up, Roasted Stuffed Chicken with Sundried Tomato Pesto & Root Vegetables! This was so easy to make, and you only bake it for 20 minutes. The chicken was crispy on the outside and still tender, juicy on the inside. I brought mine home for my boyfriend and he's totally digging it, and told me that I have to remake this dish again for him next time around! Friends who loves food are the best!It was such a fruitful day for me, my first ever blogger event, can you even believe it? I'm so blessed We even got to bring home a Panasonic Cubie oven, Le Creuset's stoneware & a bouquet of flowers from Happy Bunch! I foresee I'm going to have so much fun experimenting with this baby back at home! So stay tune! Meanwhile, You can also visit Panasonic's webpage - http://cooking.my.panasonic.com/ for more recipe ideas and cooking tips.
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