Sher won us a pair of tickets for a cooking class ($118 each) at CulinaryOn. We only had a few classes to choose from as we were reluctant to top-up, so we went for the Sea Club: Warm Octopus Salad (above), Squid Ink Risotto and Pumpkin Pie.

The class was more appropriate for corporate team bonding events rather than an actual class as most of the ingredients were already prepared for you. But it was fun because there's lots of food and drinks! All the best things in life are free (:

The main course, squid ink risotto! Actually this was so-so only and a tad salty.








Octopus was already cooked and we just had to slice.


Making the pie was probably the most hands on. Although it was group work and each one of us only had to do one thing. Like cracking eggs or blending pumpkin.


Another shot of the open kitchen. Imagine having one of these in your house ^_^


A lot of angmohs attended the class and they were a lively bunch! There was even music for us to dance along while we cook (:


Pumpkin pie (with a smiley face) in the oven!


Using the leftover pie dough to make cookies. Spot Sher's huge star of the day. Who's Ben btw?


Don't be sad, you are just as delicious.


3-in-1 stand mixer, food processor and blender from Kenwood!




Our group mates hard at work. While we sipped on white wine (not free have to pay hor).


Looking good! But as expected the calamari turned out mostly rubber.


Well-stocked bar. Can't believe the angmohs' opened a bottle of wine. That was easily 100+ bucks...


At the end of the day (11pm) we finally received our certs! Sher is a certified cook now and she'll be cooking our meals next time(:

Prawning~ Don't worry, this post is still about food (We live to eat!) Just that we're going to have to catch our food before we can eat it. This rather expensive pastime used to be the craze when we were younger. However, recently we've been feeling a bit reminiscent and so we headed down to Orto - the former Bottle Tree Park less the bottle trees for some prawning action. 

It turned out to be very crowded, and everyone was crowding around one pond, can you imagine. Seems like they were only releasing prawns into that same pond. Beside that, there was a pond for yabbies (cray fish), which we were keen to try. But first, we decided to have a go at the fresh water prawns.

First you've got to unroll the hook that's wrapped around the rod and then adjust the float. There's some marking on the pillars that shows approximately how deep the pond is, so make sure there's sufficient line between your hook and float! Some people also dip their rods into the pond to measure the depth of the sides (apparently the pond is curved towards the middle).

We let this poor pregnant prawn go. Too small for eating anyway! Yeah and these ones have those weird funky bluish pinchers. Some cruel lady next to us was using a scissors to trim them off before unhooking the prawns -- to our shock and horror.

After an hour or so at the freshwater pond, we were off to the yabbie pool. Our first yabbie! These cunning blighters are more cunning than your average fresh water prawn. They play with your bait and we kept messing up the timing to strike. In fact, most of our catches were because we foul hooked onto a part of their claw or body.

Eventually, we narrowed our technique to counting about 15s once the float starts to sink. Not a very good hit rate though ): There was this uncle nearby who consistently landed yabbies every minute or so, and he was like fishing off the side of the pond. Perhaps a yabby hotspot? For those pro at prawning/yabbying, do share some tips please haha.