Bacalhau, Traditions, and Good Friday
Taking a break from the usual restaurant tours, I decided to add something that has somewhat become a tradition for this blog; our traditional meals in our family. Although we trace our lineage from the Kapangpangans or Cabalens and have that inculcated with our daily meals, it is during the special holidays do we really roll out the good stuff. Last New Year I featured, Callos on this blog and...
Read MoreHeny Sison Graduation Shoot
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...
Read MoreThe Hunt for the Right Stove
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...
Read MoreFood Photography
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...
Read MoreChristmas and Cookies
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...
Read MoreCooking/Baking Classes Schedule: Heny Sison Culinary School
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...
Read MoreCookies: Chewy Batch
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...
Read MoreThe Follow Up: How to Sauce a Pasta
Here’s a short video with Mario Batali talking about saucing a pasta. Short snippets: * “What you want to eat when you eat a bowl of pasta … is pasta.” * “The way that they refer to their sauce in Italy is condimento—condiment—and when you think about a hot dog or hamburger, the condiment is something that kind of greases it up, but it never overtakes...
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