Cooking Adventures: Tips & Tricks

Cooking/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 day classes on particular subjects such as rice toppings, cup cakes. So I thought I’d help everyone out by posting their schedule for December. Do something special for your family/loved one/ friends this holiday season. Take a break and learn to cook something. I tell you these classes are worth it!

(This post was made after attending one of her classes.)

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December 2nd, 2009
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Cookies: Chewy Batch

Chocolate Chip Cookie Delight

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 quality of flour? The chips? And I always end up answering them that we use regular ingredients as well as average butter. (But I do admit that using Magnolia Butter Gold will make your cookies richer and creamier!) It all lies in the preparation and the technique. The butter must be creamed instead of melted. The number of folds the batter gets also is very crucial.

In baking everything is very exact. The measurements, the technique, the precision, every little thing is important. Unlike in cooking, you can freestyle. Adjust salt and pepper and other flavors according to one’s palette. That is why I love cooking more than baking.

The cookies we made ended up being chewy and so far the best batch we’ve made. Just a little something to warm the heart.

Tin Can full of Choco-Chip Delight!

Tin Can full of Choco-Chip Delight!

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September 29th, 2009
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The 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 the main event of the hot dog or the hamburger.”

* “Americans overdress their pasta 99.9 percent of the time. It should never be a bowl of soup. It should be noodles, with a little stuff.”

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September 8th, 2009
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