Florence, the occupational therapist, asked us what me wanted to do for an occupational therapy cooking session. And all of us went YAY! at the mention of cooking (i NEVER had a cooking session before at SGH occupational therapy sessions), and finally decided on konnyaku jelly because it's easy to make (tossed out ideas include muffins, egg tarts and so on).
Tuesday rolls around, and we trooped down to the occupational therapy room, lugging the ingredients along and chatting like mad. Took awhile to get everything sorted out, utensils collected and everything, and it's off to work! Thank god Florence didn't mind us taking lots of lots of pictures; it's really fun!
We needed to measure out the water for the konnyaku mix (which came pre-mixed with sugar stirred in and everything; it's way more convenient than the other kind which needed you to stir sugar in and run the risk of getting a clumpy jelly in the end). Thank god for Google, the measuring cup measures in ounces and we needed to convert 2500ml into ounces (it's about 84.5 ounces, by the way).
And it's a simple matter of bringing the water to boil on the stove while stirring the mix in (following the instructions on the back of the packet). We popped strawberry essence in as well, and it smelt pretty nice (too bad that it turned out that the essence gave ONLY the smell and not the TASTE of strawberries in the jelly).
While that's going on, the other people were doing the fruits that would go into the jelly. Can openers are wiggy (i still have a phobia of slicing a finger off; chalk it up to one too many horror , cautionary tale which i heard as a kid!).
Since we're all a bunch of eating disordered people, we totally wanted to drain the canned fruit (it came in heavy syrup) and rinse with water and everything, but Florence put a stop to it!
So it's down to scooping the fruits into the molds. Hey, not easy work can, you can't put too little or too much of it into a mold! And Ryanryan helped out, so they MUST be extra nice.
The pot of mix and water finally was ready, and we scooped the stuff into the molds, on top of the fruits (which would suspend themselves in the solidified jelly, somehow, by themselves, later).
The solution slowly 'stiffened' as it cooled (and while we were still scooping it!), and ended up looking like mucus/snot/morning gunk!
Into the fridge it goes, to chill and set (but it's pretty wobbly and kind of firm even before we stick it in).
Cleaning up was pretty fun (mucus gops galore!). And then it's back to the ward we troop, carrying the molds and getting lots of stares from people walking past us!
Yum!
Tuesday rolls around, and we trooped down to the occupational therapy room, lugging the ingredients along and chatting like mad. Took awhile to get everything sorted out, utensils collected and everything, and it's off to work! Thank god Florence didn't mind us taking lots of lots of pictures; it's really fun!
We needed to measure out the water for the konnyaku mix (which came pre-mixed with sugar stirred in and everything; it's way more convenient than the other kind which needed you to stir sugar in and run the risk of getting a clumpy jelly in the end). Thank god for Google, the measuring cup measures in ounces and we needed to convert 2500ml into ounces (it's about 84.5 ounces, by the way).
And it's a simple matter of bringing the water to boil on the stove while stirring the mix in (following the instructions on the back of the packet). We popped strawberry essence in as well, and it smelt pretty nice (too bad that it turned out that the essence gave ONLY the smell and not the TASTE of strawberries in the jelly).
While that's going on, the other people were doing the fruits that would go into the jelly. Can openers are wiggy (i still have a phobia of slicing a finger off; chalk it up to one too many horror , cautionary tale which i heard as a kid!).
Since we're all a bunch of eating disordered people, we totally wanted to drain the canned fruit (it came in heavy syrup) and rinse with water and everything, but Florence put a stop to it!
So it's down to scooping the fruits into the molds. Hey, not easy work can, you can't put too little or too much of it into a mold! And Ryanryan helped out, so they MUST be extra nice.
The pot of mix and water finally was ready, and we scooped the stuff into the molds, on top of the fruits (which would suspend themselves in the solidified jelly, somehow, by themselves, later).
The solution slowly 'stiffened' as it cooled (and while we were still scooping it!), and ended up looking like mucus/snot/morning gunk!
Into the fridge it goes, to chill and set (but it's pretty wobbly and kind of firm even before we stick it in).
Cleaning up was pretty fun (mucus gops galore!). And then it's back to the ward we troop, carrying the molds and getting lots of stares from people walking past us!
Yum!
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2 comments:
These jellies are my absolute fav!!!
*michie/indianized
the mix turned out to be great =)
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