Last Night's iCUSU Formal Hall 29-04

We are an autonomous campaign within CUSU and aim to serve all international students. We run campaigns with the help of the JCR/MCR reps in your college.We also run a few social events as well as a weekly Academic English Class.

The above is a brief description of iCUSU taken from their website. Last Night, Pembroke hosted a Formal Hall for 150 of it's members and guests. This is the 3rd (?) time we have hosted this event, and it always seems to be a big success!

Last night was a Feast Night, with four courses, instead of the normal three. We began the dinner with an interesting amuse bouche of ratatouille in Sauternes Gelee. This great little bite comes from Terrines and Verrines by Franck Pontais. Franck will be hosting a demonstration of his verrines at Cambridge Regional College next Wednesday.

Ratatouille in Sauternes Gelee

Our Great Staff!

For a starter we served local asparagus with quail's egg, pink grapefruit and Hollandaise Sauce. This interesting starter is from Maze, our latest cookbook; we would like to apologise for taking so long serving this dish last night, however each plate contained seven ingredients!

WOW!

For a main course we moved onto smoked seabass with aubergine crisps, candied aubergines, new potatoes and spinach. Again, this dish came from the Maze cookbook.

vegetarians were served smoked tofu instead of the fish.

For dessert we served tea flavoured creme brulee with sauteed apricots and shortbread biscuits

Thank you to everyone at iCUSU for your continued support!