I have had a frantic few weeks so did not get a chance to write about Chef Laurent’s fabulous new books and the incredible book launch that he hosted a few weeks back, but it was such a great event I feel I have to make a belated mention.
I have written about Chef Laurent (Laurent Vancam) a few times in the past due to my involvement in the Locavore Tuckshop project, which I will give you an update on soon. St. John’s College Tuckshop has long been enjoying the incredible tuckshop meals and now Laurent has shared his successful tuckshop recipes with everyone else.
The two books; Chef Laurent Caters for Kids and Chef Laurent Caters for Families have all his favourite recipes for kids. The great thing is that one of the books, Chef Laurent Caters for Kids actually has recipes designed for the mass quantities required in tuckshops. I am hoping (fingers crossed) that tuckshops, throughout Australia will take these books on board and follow some of these incredibly easy recipes, seeing them onto their own tuckshop menus. Laurent has proven that by giving the kids the choice of choosing healthy nutritious and flavoursome food, that they will eat them! Chef Laurent Caters for Families has scaled down versions of the recipes so they can be made in smaller quantities – don’t buy the wrong one by mistake, haha…
Now getting back to the launch, which was just great. The whole room was filled with tables with sample offerings from the cookbooks; it was just so wonderful to be able to sample so many different things knowing that it was going to be easy to recreate (providing you buy the cookbook of course).
Just for sample’s sake… Coconut and White Chocolate Mousse, Sticky Date, Mini Meringue Tart… oh sorry, they were just the sweets, there was other food… Mini Wraps, Fried Rice, Sushi… it was all good!
The books are available online for purchase so hop onto Laurent’s website for more information:
http://www.cheflaurent.com.au/books.html
This post was written by Petra Frieser – Local Harvest
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