March 2011
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Just a big-ass Pizza... That's all I ask for!
For like 4 years now, all I want to have and eat for my birthday is pizza. And three or two days prior to my B-day I will start imagining 3 18” pizzas of my favorite variety. I imagine myself eating those until my gut retaliates on me. My one and only food birthday wish is Pizza and guess what?… MY HUMBLE WISH NEVER COMES TRUE! I either find myself cooking my own birthday buffet...
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“I’m a homebody, I’d rather be in the kitchen cooking than hanging...”
– I guess anyone who is very dedicated to their craft or passion or dreams at several or most occasions find themselves in a little kitchen, their bedroom, an attic or a basement immersed on doing the one thing which pumps meaningful and creative blood in their veins.
I am always happy being alone in...
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I Start and End My Every Day With Food
The minute I open my eyes, I go out of my room, check the breakfast table’s offering. If I feel hungry that instant then I do eat breakfast and if I don’t I just have a very big mug of coffee.
After I’m finished doing the breakfast thing, I head to the kitchen, do mise en place for 30 minutes, cook for three hours. After I’m done cooking lunch, I slack a couple of hours here online. I answer...
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Raise my flag... Have them Eat my dust
Every time I watch reality cooking competitions I always always root for the best and most talented woman chef against her male counterparts. I am not a sexist nor a feminist, but I found that women chefs have to work twice harder than the men inside the kitchen.
The culinary world, specially the culinary environment in my country is still dominated by men. I have worked in kitchens where I was...
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Too Hot to Stop now....
I just made myself a plate of Kung Pao Chicken noodles for lunch. I like spicy food and my spice tolerance is pretty hardcore, like I am notorious for munching slivers of bird’s eye chilies in spicy dishes.
So I made Kung Pao Chicken noodles and decided to turn the spiciness up a notch by adding half a teaspoon of hot Chinese chili paste (eye-tearing hot). The first fork full was really...
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“Life itself is the proper binge.”
– Julia Child
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“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s...”
– MAYA ANGELOU
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“A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.”
– Erma Bombeck
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“I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives....”
– After acquiring 2 big containers of baking and cooking tools through the years, I did at one point ask myself, “What is wrong with you?… you could have bought a pair of designer shoes with all that money you spent buying all this weird whisks,off-set spatulas,cookie cutters,fondant tools...
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“I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay...”
– Oh wow…. seems like James Beard and Emeril Lagasse and I went to do what we are really meant to do…. Fall into cooking after all that love of music and the arts… The heart’s got to do what it wants to do… And what it feels right I guess.
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“There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in...”
– And indeed it is the absolute truth…. you give your heart into cooking the most perfect meal…. You get excited looking at his first bite…. You get nervous with what he has to say after the first bite…. and when all is good and well and satisfied, You’re the happiest...
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“I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the...”
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And it is really like in the playing field… it takes teamwork for your kitchen to win, and so much hard work to be hailed as “MVP”… Your coach is your executive chef who barks at you a lot, keeps pushing you to be the best, and you must absolutely do a field goal by...
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“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.”
– Harriet Van Horne
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“Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there...”
– NIGELLA LAWSON
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“There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they...”
– NIGELLA LAWSON
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