Cooking with Moff

Over the Extended stay at Wambana there were several sessions where we did cooking with Moff. Most people looked forward to these sessions while others found it boring. I liked it though as we got to eat the produce at the end. The things that we cooked were usually very nice. There were two sessions. In the first session we made Anzac Biscuits. I am in Wardli four and so we went to Wardli five for the demonstration. Moff brought the ingredients so that we had everything we needed. Most of the people in my Wardli weren’t very happy because we wanted the demo to be in our Wardli so that we wouldn’t have to do any of the cooking. But some of us including myself wanted the experience, but either way we weren’t fussed. After the 20 minute demo Moff gave us the ingredients and we headed back to our Wardli and started cooking. It took us around 15 minutes to get the ingredients mixed together and then we rolled up the squishy mixture and put it on the tray. This ended up taking around 20 minutes to cook. The Anzac Biscuits ended up being Anzac Slice as it was all joined together. It looked more like a cake than cookies. We cut the slice up evenly and gave everyone in the Wardli a piece. It tasted miraculous especially since we had cooked it ourselves, mostly without Moff’s help.

The second time that we cooked with Moff we started off by making shapes. We got pitta bread and buttered both sides. We then added what kind of topping we liked. The topping that Tien and I chose was cinnamon sugar. We then put the “shapes” into the oven to cook. After around nine minutes we took the “shapes” out. We split the “shapes” in half and ate them. They were delicious. Other people had lemon pepper and other kinds of toppings, which also tasted really good. We then started to create toffee apples. Before we started though Moff got us to taste the different forms of sugars that we were putting into the saucepan and mix together and create toffee apple. We started off by tasting glucose syrup. We then moved onto golden syrup. Honey was next and then raw sugar which tasted very good. We the started to create the toffee. We mixed all the sugar products together and let it rest on the stove for a while. We then put skewers in the apples and dipped the lovely red apples into the bubbly liquid. The toffee apples had been created! We now had to wait for the toffee to set on the apple. During this time there was some toffee remaining and we decided to make honeycomb out of it. Moff added the Bi-Carb soda and then he poured the frothing liquid onto a tray and then put the tray in the freezer. During this time we waited for another 15 minutes and we then got the toffee apples and started eating and licking them. The main taste of the toffee apple was the golden syrup. When we got the honeycomb out of the freezer it was very chewy and sticky. The main taste of the honeycomb was most certainly the honey.

Cooking with Moff was a very enjoyable experience, not just learning how to cook but also eating the food that we had created.

The highs in cooking with Moff were that we were able to eat nice food and the feeling of accomplishment when cooking a nice treat by ourselves.
The lows in cooking with Moff were that Moff usually made a big mess and having to clean it up, and also it got a bit boring at times.