On December 7th, we had an opportunity to enjoy the views, smells and flavors of many different types of Christmas cakes. It was due to an annual event called "From gingerbread to cheesecake" - Christmas Cakes Competition organised by our teacher, Mr Józef Ruchała.










All cakes looked and smelled delicious but the jury decided to award Joanna Hess (class 1ga) – I place, Mateusz Kłody (class 4ga) – II place and Aneta Gajdacz (class 4gż ) – III place.

Congratulations!

Between 10 - 11 December 2009 our school hosted guests from Turkey on the occasion of "Days of Turkish Culture - Alanya 2009”. The event was organised by Cieszyńskie Stowarzyszenie "Działajmy Razem" TRIANON POLSKA ( Cieszyn Association "Act Together" TRIANON POLAND) We hosted chefs from the area of Turkish Riviera (Alanya - Antalya) Mr Mustafa Nail Özden and Mr Ömer Atan. On Thursday our pupils (class 2ga) had an unforgettable chance to cook with these chefs. They cooked lentil soup with mint, chicken with spinach&cheese stuffing and veal rissole. Additionally they prepared potato puree and pepper stew.

On Friday it was 1gż who helped the chefs prepare food for all participants of the event. This time they cooked a different type of lentil soup with crouton, two chicken and veal dishes with vegetables, rice with chickpea, tomato salad with peppers, cucumbers parsley and lemon juice. For dessert they made „Kazan Dibi” that consisted of milk, rice, caramel and plenty of sugar.

This was a good occasion to try some specialties of the Turkish cuisine as well as to work with professional chefs and to learn from them.

This kind of cooperation would be impossible without the help of our pupil from class 4ta, Koray Gürtekin who temporarily became our interpreter.
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(Elżbieta Macura – gastronomy section)

On December 1st 2009 the Střední škola hotelová a obchodně podnikatelská in Czech Cieszyn organised, as they do each year, a competition for young bartenders called „Mlady Barman 2009 – o cenu starosty mesta”.

Our school was represented by pupils from class 4gk: Dawid Szturc and Michał Topoliński. After many hard days of training and practicing for the competition, there finally was the day when our two young bartenders would stand face to face with their oppinents from the Czech school as well as with other students from Wisła.
At each of bartenders' competition the contestants must show off their talents, skills but also creativity by presenting their own, unique drink. Michał's drink – „Energy Kocza”, consisted of:Amundsen vodka, Energy Amundsen, pineapple juice andpassion fruit syrup. Dawid's coctail was called „Natalia” had the following ingredients: Key Rum White, Energy Amundsen, orange juice and lychee syrup.

Their fine work and artful decorations were appreciated by the jury as Dawid Szturc took place III, and Michał Topoliński was second in the overall stand. The winner was Łukasz Bortlik from the Czech school.

Another aspect of the open day was the virtual companies' fair.Here our pupils were Aneta Gaszyńska, Anna Brych, Lucyna Ciemała and Sara Borkała („IKAR TRAVEL” ), and a company called „PLUSZAK” run by Renata Kisiała, Karolina Faba, Krystyna Rzepa and Magda Cieślar. Despite a large number of competing virtual companies, our „IKAR TRAVEL” got third place in this contest.

We want to thank our Czech friends for this great event. Congratulations to all students who successfully took part in this open day and to the winners.

(gastronomy section: Sylwester Ochman)