Raw Chocolate Workshop - Raw diet?

I bought the voucher for "chocolate workshop" from one of the deal websites with 2 other friends at $25.  We didn't find out more about the nature of the workshop and thought we would be learning how to make those sweet and sinful chocolate that we always like.  

The venue of the workshop is at cluny court and so I took MRT to Botanic Garden station.  Cluny court is just opposite the station.  From the lift near to Cold Storage, I took to 4th level.

We realized this workshop was about raw diet.  I didn't know there are people who can live by raw diet ie they don't need to use oil to fry their food.  Most of the dishes they prepare can be done by blending and stirring etc.  This workshop focus on cacao (raw form of cocoa) as the main ingredient.

 These chocolates melt very fast in your mouth.

 A bit diluted... I cannot give my milo up for this.

The raw ingredients don't come very cheap too.

I will not be changing my diet to raw although this workshop had given me some exposure to what raw diet is all about.  I cannot live with raw diet even it promises a healthier you.  How about you?

The Beauty of Thai Look Choob

I had just signed up for a hands-on session with People's Association (onePA) to learn how to make the beautiful fruit-shaped or vegetable-shaped Thai dessert made of green bean paste.  So looking forward to the workshop tomorrow and I will share more about it after attending the workshop!  :D  

Have a Nice Weekend Everyone!!  Yay!!

Updated on 13 May 2012:  I had attended the workshop and it was fun!  It was like an art and craft workshop too because we also learnt how to shape 11 different fruits/ veggie with the green bean paste and also added colouring to them.  I had not attended cooking classes from PA since 2008.  With the advancement in technology, almost all the participants who attended the workshop were equipped with cameras or handphones to take photos or even video-record the teacher's demonstration.  The teacher didn't seem to mind and at the start of the lesson, she wanted us to take photo of the beautiful look choob that she had prepared in advance - shown in my opening photo for this post.  Very beautiful right?

Ingredients for making the look choob.

 Our teacher

 Each table will get a tray of colourings and paintbrushes.  Seem like an Art lesson right?

 Done by teacher.  We have hands-on session after each demonstration.

 After we had "painted" our look choob, the teacher helped us to dip them into the heated agar agar.  This step is important as it will add a gloss the the texture.

 This was done by moi.

 Our work table.

 Brought my creation back home to share with hubby. :)

Healthy Cooking Workshop

My school Staff Well Being Committee (SWBC) organized a healthy cooking workshop on 16 April, Friday afternoon. We learnt 2 very simple to prepare dishes:  1)  Rujak Serut and 2)  Fruit Crumble

Preparing the sauce.  We heated it for a longer period of time so that the sauce will be thicker.

Pour the sauce over the shredded veggies, we got this which was very appetizing.

After 40 minutes in the oven, it was time to check out the fruit crumble in the oven

The fruit crumble had diced green apple, banana and pineapple inside.

Will post the recipe here once I got it from the F&N teacher :D