RECIPE FOR A BIG FIGHT

Today is a fight day. My relatives are coming to my house to watch the fight of Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto. I am estimating around 15 people in my house and the food must be able to feed these number of people as they watch the fight in my home. I thinking of the hand foods like cookies, brownies, roasted peanuts, barbecue and foods like being grilled since this is perfect for the event of watching.

But since the event would last beyond lunch time, I am thinking of cooking something for them. Grilled tuna panga is what in my mind right now. This kind of dish is very easy to cook. I had already marinated the tuna panga and placed in on the refrigerator to make the marinated sauce get into the fish part and make it tasty when eaten by my relatives. This dish, I learned when I visited a nearby city. Tuna grilled panga is their proud recipe and this dish has been handed from generation to generation.

I guess I have to make it fast before my relatives arrive here. I already heated the oven and the brownies are already in place. Roasted peanuts and cookies are already prepared. I guess the steamed rice will be later so that I will be able to maintain the freshly cooked rice. I am very busy cooking early for them.

COOKING CLASS INVITATION

I was invited to witness students in their cooking class. The school that invited me is owned by my classmate who is also a chef and a proud graduate of the culinary school where I also graduated from. The cooking class will be on Monday afternoon. According to my culinary friend, the cooking or baking rather will focus on pastries and cakes. He also told me that I must prepare something inspirational for the students as they do the baking demo.

The students will be doing the entire work in the kitchen, I will just look at them and taste the cakes that they will be baking. After that, the students have something for me. I really don't get that idea that something will be given to me. My friend added that I will also do some little cooking and show it to the students. I never expected that my chef friend will be opening a cooking school. Like most of the chef classmates, we opened our restaurants and food businesses. But my friend opted the other way.

Monday's even will be very interesting for all of us. This will be my first baking lesson class that I will attend, aside from the culinary school where I graduated from. There will be 7 classes that will be baking their hearts out! Got the idea! I am just excited to see these students in cooking to their best in the baking schedule.

KITCHEN CLEANING AND THE NEW RECIPE

I just finished cleaning the kitchen. I started cleaning around 8 pm and I washed all the pots and woks that I used in today's cooking in the restaurant. I usually let the dish washer do this but I just want to do something that is why I did it myself.

My friend called me this evening informing about the recipe that I am looking for. I really wanted to cook turkey, since Christmas is coming. I want to incorporate the recipe in the menu that I offer to my customers inside the restaurant. My friend told me that he found the recipe that I was asking him about. I saw my classmate cook this during the last day in the culinary school and the recipe garnered high remarks from the culinary school. What I like about this recipe of turkey is that it is very simple to cook and the end product is a tasty and healthy meal.

When I first tasted the turkey meal that my classmate cooked, I realized that this recipe will be very famous when it goes to the restaurants around the metro. After our graduation, I asked my classmate if I could have a copy of the turkey dish that he prepared. By the end of this week, I will try cooking the turkey using the recipe that my chef friend gave me. I am just very excited about it. I will be posting the information about the turkey recipe later on.

INVITATION TO COOK

I got a phone call this afternoon from a person whom I didn't know. According to the guy, he has my calling card that he got from the birthday celebration of the mayor. I remembered distributing my calling cards and maybe he was one lucky recipient of it. He told me that he wants to meet with me in person so that we can discuss matters with regards to his invitation to cook.

I agreed about the idea and I told him to come visit me in my restaurant so that we can talk seriously, not just over the phone. He agreed about the idea of meeting in my restaurant. He added is I could cook some dishes for tasting such as relyeno, lumpia, pork afretada, lechon manok, pancit canton and other dishes. I told him that I cannot cook these dishes since we haven't meet in person, and he understands.

The reason why he wanted me to cook was he wanted me to be his commissary in cooking his dishes that he sell in the mall dining area. I idea was good but I really needed to be sure, especially when I do the cooking. Our talk was cut because of the line interference in the restaurant and besides I have to many things to do in my restaurant. I have preparing several dishes for a wedding reception. The recipes were given to me and I have to prepare small sizes of it for tasting. The cooking invitation might be decided tomorrow after we meet in person. My culinary mastery goes beyond everything. This is the chef's point of view.

FUTURE PLANS WITH THE COOKING

I was talking to my chef friend and we were planning to give scholarships to those students who are interested to enter culinary school. It is a fact that many students who are enrolled in HRM are intersted to enter culinary school. But because of the lack of fundings, these dreams of becoming future chefs will not be materialized because of that fact. To ease the problem, we are offering scholarships for 5 students who want to have a further studies in cooking and enter into culinary school. But we still have to iron the details with the culinary school administrator for the details.

I had already contacted 7 chefs that will be going to Finland to further studies in the culinary dishes of Finland. These chefs are my friends, they have been working for huge establishments are with years of experience in cooking. One of these chefs, was the official chef of the Bukingham Palace in England. When it comes to experience, they have everything to offer. By next wee, 7 chefs and me will be going to Finland and study dishes local in Finland.

My restaurants will be managed by my brother while I am away for the further study in cooking. The Kiosk will be supervised by the chef there. I had already prepared everything before I go to Finland to further my studies in cooking dishes local to Finland. The trip might be in the end of the month, depending of the schedule of the Finland chefs that will accomodate us when we get there.