What's cooking?

What a difference a few days can make! Getting into a good sleeping pattern again and adjusting to the climate and time zone does wonders for one.

The staff at CHO were very keen to get me started at Destiny Café and wanted me to show them how to prepare a few new dishes.  So on Tuesday morning we sat down, Rosa (CHO Business Manager), Leeta (Assistant) and myself and went through the menu they presently have and looked at what improvements might be made.  Once we had done this we decided on which new dishes they would like to learn, made up a shopping list and Leeta went off to Siem Reap that afternoon to purchase the supplies.

Well she came back with approximately half of the items which is better than nothing as the choice here is very limited.  The rest we had to be inventive and ‘adapt’ accordingly which lead to a few interesting variations on the dishes we were creating.

Overall it went very well and Leeta and her team were very keen and enthusiastic to learn and try different things.  We have made muffins, pizza, coleslaw, carrot salad, quiche, sponge cake and a couple of desserts as well as custard.

But by far the most successful and appreciated were the meringues which I made on the spur of the moment because there were egg whites left over – they absolutely loved them, so it just goes to show that sometimes in life it is the simplest things that bring the greatest joy.

I don’t think we would quite make it onto ‘the Great British Bake Off’, but we had a fabulous time sharing, cooking, learning and just being together – food transcends all barriers.

They have made this such a wonderful and enjoyable experience for me.

Love and blessings,

Michelle