Second day of our Mediterranean Dish week, we prepared a porridge like Portuguese Chicken Soup, Miniature Pork Brochettes and Pasta with Courgettes in a Creamy Tomato Sauce. We also learned how to prepare a famous Mediterranean marinade called Ras El-Hanout (Arabic word literally means “top of the shop”) consisting of not less than 12 different spices mixed together. It was the base of...

Today is day 50 of my culinary arts class and if you are wondering what happened to day 49th, we had a lecture on food costing, another key element of the food service business. Today is the start of the Mediterranean Cuisine week, we prepared 3 Portuguese dishes, Portuguese Style Potatoes, Spicy Chicken with Olives and Chorizo Empanadillas using Puff Pastry as its dough. Portuguese Style Potatoes

Whenever I look at a buffet table, I can’t help but notice the fruits and vegetable decorations. These fruits and vegetable carvings are worth appreciating given the time and effort given to prepare them, today, we learned some of the techniques of fruit and vegetable carving, here are some of my work. Incoming search terms:vegetable carvingfruit and vegetable carvingcarvingfruits and vegetables...

It’s the second day dedicated for cake decorating, for the cake, we baked Chocolate Sponge Cake and for decorating, we used Chocolate Ganache for coating and Royal Icing for the decoration. We also prepared some chocolate accents using melted unsweetened chocolate. Incoming search terms:chocolate cake decorationschocolate cake decorationcoklat decorationcara dekor cakecake coklatpatisserie...

Day 46 is dedicated for cake decorating, for the cake, we prepared a Pandan flavored Chiffon Cake and Boiled Icing for decorating. Incoming search terms:pandan cakebolu pandanchiffon cake decorationschiffon cake icingpandan cake recipe

Fourth day of our baking class, it’s time to prepare Butter Cake and Brownies, like most baking preparations, both recipes involves a lot of weighing and mixing. The key to a good cake (or any baked products) is precise measurement & correct mixing. Incoming search terms:hibok hibok recipeDay45:Baking104|PhotographicMemoriesproducts of camiguin