CHEF TALK MADE EASY

As a chef, I live a very busy life. In the morning, I have to wake up around 5 am just to prepare myself in going to the restaurant and in the evening, I have to leave the restaurant around 10 pm, during the closing of the restaurant. I can't hardly use my phone and call my chef-friends and get an update on their status. My rest period is only when I get to update my chef account in my Facebook and Twitter account. My chef-friends would call me around 10 times but I could not attend to the calls because of my busy schedule in the restaurant. In my Twitter account, my chef friends would leave some twitter smiles from myemoticons.com. The smiles that they send me really make me calm my busy nerves as a chef. Chef talk made easy this time with the smiles that I also send to them. 

By the end of the month, I will be leaving the country for a culinary event that will be happening in Singapore. It is a culinary event that my appearance is requested by the event coordinators. I already send some messages to my friends that I will be away for awhile. 

This busy schedule really make me love the profession as a chef. 

BAKE MY OWN CAKE

I was with a chef friend last night. We had a short conversation and it was held in a small cake shop in the downtown area. We were discussing about her plan of opening a pastry shop and she wanted me to join her pastry shop. 

I am a chef and my forte is really cooking and not baking. Many thought that all chef can bake and cook. But that is not the case all the time. There is a pastry chef and a meal chef and that is what I am. I think I will decline the offer ahead and I will just endorse another chef that is a pastry chef. 

QUICK AND EASY MORNING MEAL

I woke up late this morning and I have a very important meeting to attend to. Since I live alone in my house, I have nobody to blame but myself for no meals prepared. To make the my hungry tummy full, I decided to make and prepare a quick and easy morning meal for myself. 

I check the refrigerator and found these: eggs, hotdogs, butter, chocolate and bread. Well, these are just the foods that I need to make a quick and easy morning meal for myself. It only took me 5 minutes to prepare a meal for myself. They don't call me chef for nothing if I cannot make a meal for myself in quick and easy morning meal for myself.

I realized today that I must wake up early so that I will have enough time to make a morning meal for myself. I think it is already nearing 8 o clock I must go now....

FAST AND EASY WAY TO PREPARE A MEAL

The first time a tried to prepare and cook a meal was about 10 years ago. I was still in my college years in the culinary school. Our professor-chef told us that we must be prepared always for there will be a cooking demo for the school fest. Honestly that time, I really don't know how to prepare and cook meals. The chef-professor gave me an assignment to prepare and cook slow carb meals. 

It was my first test and I really don't know where to start. I research using the internet on various slow carb meals until I finally found the recipe that I am confident to prepare and cook. It was a beef dish from a Swiss chef and it was very easy to prepare and cook. I made some trial cooking before I presented it to my chef-professor in the culinary school. In the cooking proper, I was already very confident about the dish that I selected and would be cooking. After the cooking demo, my professors liked it and also gave me an award for the recipe that I made. 

As a chef, we must be resourceful enough to find the recipes that would really standout among others. A chef must also be patient and quick to think. I think these are the traits of a successful chef. 

HOW TO COOK GARLIC

Garlic is one of the spices that I like the most. Garlic adds up to the taste of every recipe there is in this world. It is said that if a recipe does not have a garlic on it, then there is something wrong in the recipe. It may seem easy to look at but cooking garlic also varies from chef to chef. 

In cooking garlic, one must know if the recipe that he is cooking requires the garlic to be brown or just the flavoring to add up to the taste. Garlic really cooks fast and overcooking it may loose the taste of garlic. Here are the tips that I believe that can be helpful for those who are learning to cook garlic:

• Chop garlic according to your desired sizes.
• Prepare the pan and heat it just in low temperature.
• Fry the garlic in just 10 seconds.

Cooking garlic is really easy. You don't have to earn a chef degree just to cook garlic. Happy cooking.