HOME STYLE COOKING IS STILL THE BEST

The summer was a very fun period in where we get to travel as long as 4 hours just to get to my grandmother's house in the province. Remembering the home style cooking of my grandmother makes me think about the days where the wok is the best place to cook. My grandmother was one busy woman, that's for sure. She was often seen in the kitchen and slicing and preparing the ingredients for the food that she will be cooking. Everyday is a special day for my grandmother as she cooks our desired foods and prepares them in style that we wanted it to be.

Her most specialty is the calderetang cambing or goat. She makes this easy to cook and the taste was superior among others. Maybe because I never get to taste other caldereta but hers was the best home style cooking. Cooking caldereta is not that easy as others think it is. Goat meat is the main ingredient when cooking caldereta. But aside from goat's meat, beef is also a good substitute for the goat. In just caldereta along, it would took around 3 hours before the food will be ready. That is how delicate and full of love when caldereta is being cooked by my grandmother.

Aside from her famous caldereta, grandmother also likes to cook chicharong bulaklak and dinuguan or pig's blood delight. Grandmother likes to cook native foods and other delicacies. No wonder I adopted that same philosophy in my cooking at the restaurant. In cooking, it is 90 percent love and 10 percent joy in cooking the things that you like.