COOKING FROM THE HEART

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Ramblers Way. All opinions are 100% mine.

When I decided to learn the art of cooking, I was motivated to go to the city where the culinary school was situated. I studied for 5 years in the culinary school and learn the art of cooking and food preparation. But I never in my wildest dreams to leave the town where I was born and raised. That is why after graduation, I made it sure that I would come back to the town where I was born.

Living in a town is quite better than living in the stressful urban area. In cooking, I get the freshest ingredients and the meat products are all guaranteed fresh. Many are asking me why I moved back to our town and decided to open my restaurant here. I should opted to open in the city, where the big bucks are all there. As a master chef, I would do make good sum of money there compared in the town. A straight and simple answer, I love my town and the products it produces. That is why this is the best place to open a restaurant business.

Almost 99% of the things that you see inside my restaurant is made in the town. I think that is the main thought about Made in America, building stronger communities all over the country. My restaurant is not just catering to local customers but also city customers as well. In a week, I would take around 20 customers coming from the city. I am very happy to have decided to stay in the town. I get to cook local dishes and recipes. I can say that I am cooking from the heart.

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.