Posted by The Chubbychef on Mar 8, 2010 in Cooking Adventures: Tips & Tricks, Featured Articles, General Food News | 1 comment
Recently, the Heny Sison Culinary School held a small luncheon for the graduates of Essential Baking and Essential Cooking Classes. It was a chance for them to showcase what they’ve learned during the course and at the same time treat their family or guests to a lovely lunch. Under the guidance of their mentors, they created masterful delicacies that not only tasted sinfully good, but was...
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Posted by The Chubbychef on Feb 18, 2010 in Cooking Adventures: Tips & Tricks, Featured Articles, General Food News | 1 comment
Dear Readers,
First and foremost I would like to apologize for the theme and turn my blog has taken over the past few months. This blog was started primarily because I was in the hunt for the perfect dish. I would struggle always to find food that would suit my taste that is why I got into cooking.
As I dabble into the interesting world of cooking, learning along the way, I have discovered a few...
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Posted by The Chubbychef on Feb 17, 2010 in Cooking Adventures: Tips & Tricks, Featured Articles, General Food News | 1 comment
I’ve always loved food. I could never imagine myself as a skinny young boy. From the pots and pans of my Mom, I learned to develop my now insatiable hunger to find the best cuisine. Admittedly, my taste is quite diverse and not completely developed. Too much of a good thing has led to this chubby little self that I call Carlos. I’ve always loved food and how sometimes even the...
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Posted by The Chubbychef on Dec 25, 2009 in Cooking Adventures: Tips & Tricks, Featured Articles, General Food News | 4 comments
It started about 3 years ago. My family or even just my mother and I would start baking cookies. I would measure because she hated that aspect of baking, the measuring of ingredients, as well as my eagerness to learn worked well for both of us. We were a good tandem. Working all those late nights to push out close to 50-100 cookies for our family gatherings. Cookies then came to be associated...
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Posted by The Chubbychef on Dec 2, 2009 in Cooking Adventures: Tips & Tricks, Featured Articles | 3 comments
A lot of friends ask me where I learned to cook. It is quite unusual for a guy my age to be actually cooking some of these great meals for my friends especially since I never took up culinary skills. You see, you can only learn so much on your own. There are just some things that someone has to teach you. Luckily, I have Heny Sison’s culinary school. They offer short courses as well as half...
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Posted by The Chubbychef on Sep 29, 2009 in Cooking Adventures: Tips & Tricks | 3 comments
Chocolate Chip Cookie Delight
I’ve already mentioned that baking cookies has always been a family thing. So during this time of crisis where all forms of communication was lost, the best we could to do to comfort each other was to go baking. And so we baked cookies.
People have been asking me what is the secret to our awesome cookies. Do we add some magic ingredient? Is the butter? The...
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