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Day 13: South Beach IV (Dimsum, Chicken Breast and Minced Pork)

It’s the last day of the school week, we are still preparing dishes for South Beach, today it’s Mixed Vegetable Dimsum (fried) as appetizer, Chicken Breast with Lemon and Capers for the main course and Minced Pork in Lettuce Cups as salad.

Mixed Vegetable Dimsum

Day 12: South Beach III (Fish, Quiche and Vegetable Soup)

This week’s cooking program was definitely design for health conscious people, for the third installment of the South Beach recipes that we need to prepare, we cooked Lemony Fish Fillet to which we used Cream Dowry, Spinach Quiche and Cream of Vegetable Soup.

Lemony Fish Fillet and Spinach Quiche

Day 11: South Beach Diet II

Although needing more time to sleep, I went on to attend day 11 of my Culinary Arts class, I got home around 1AM from my photography gig at EDSA Shangri-La, went to be at around 2AM and woke up at 5AM. Good thing this week’s task were not that tedious, it mostly involves less [...]

Day 10: South Beach Diet

To start a brand new week, we prepared something for the diet conscious people, the famous south beach diet. Three dishes were prepared, Lettuce and Cashew Salad, Grilled Chicken Salad and Maple Glaze Pork Roast.

Day 9: Meatballs, Oysters & Yet Another Pasta Sauce

Day 9 was a continuation of our Italian culinary course, today we prepared my favorite pulutan, Baked Oysters on Half Shell as appetizer, Meatball Soup as (obviously) the soup course and Pasta with Alfredo Sauce with Bacon, sorry guys no dessert today.

P-Noy’s Inauguration and the Wang Wang Mentality

No classes (and offices) today, former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declared June 30, 2010 as special non-working holiday for the people to witness the inauguration of President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III as the 15th President of the Republic. In a way I see this as GMA proving her promise that there will be a [...]

Day 8: Italian Overload

On the eve of President elect Noynoy Aquino’s inauguration, it was my 8th day of culinary arts study and today was continuance of Italian food preparation, we cooked Moussaka, Panettone Pudding and Puttanesca Sauce (on spaghetti pasta).

Day 7: Monday F*ckness!

It’s the start of a brand new week, as usual, I was excited to attend my culinary arts class, all things went well until around 7AM when the jeepney that I was riding reached Robinson’s Mall in Imus. The was stalled to a full stop about 3 kilometers from the school, I thought it [...]

Day 6: Vegetable Soup, Hoppel Poppel and Barbeque

It was the feast of St. John the Baptist and the last day of class for the week, on the way to the school, I was seating in front of the jeepney with my classmate when a group of young people started throwing waters on us. I got hit and that almost ruined my [...]

Day 5: Chicken, Pork and Potato Recipe

Today we prepared chicken, Pork and potato in our culinary arts class, the chicken recipe was a dish that I always see whenever I do my duty as a wedding photographer, Chicken Cordon Bleu, the pork recipe was Pork Loaf and the Potato was a Pan-fried Potatoes with Piquant Paprika.
The Pan-fried Potatoes with Piquant Paprika [...]