I had an accident a day before our Thailand and Vietnamese Cuisine class so I had to skip it. After a few weeks, I was informed that I can take the make-up class in CCA Manila’s original Maginhawa branch. I had to take a leave at work since the schedule was a monday. I felt…
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CCA Culinary Arts Fundamental Course Session 11 – French Cuisine
As the course is coming to a close, I’m starting to miss it already. I have one makeup schedule for next week then the last one on end-September then it’s graduation time! I’m going to miss waking up very early during Saturdays and going to school and cook in a commercial kitchen…. 😊 We started…
CCA Culinary Arts Fundamental Course Session 10 – American Cuisine
The CCA Fundamentals in Culinary Arts is coming to a close. This is the 3rd to the last session and I’m starting to miss the weekend habit of going to class at 7am. For this session, our focus is on American Cuisine. We started with the usual lecture and cooking tips then we went straight…
CCA Culinary Arts Fundamental Course Session 9 – Mediterranean Cuisine
We started the session at the demo room where the teacher shared tips related to the Mediterranean dishes we were supposed to cook that day. One thing that stuck out for me is that freshly cracked pepper taste much better than already commercially-grounded ones. Teacher Chef Kat taught us how to clean the seafood then…
CCA Culinary Arts Fundamental Course Session 8 – Malaysian, Indonesian and Indian Cuisine
It’s Malaysian, Indonesian and Indian Cuisine for our 8th session in our Fundamentals in Culinary Arts course. I missed session 7 coz I was in an accident so I’ll share it with you once I attend the make-up class (hopefully soon!). We started the class with the usual tips for the dishes we were supposed…
CCA Culinary Arts Fundamental Course Session 6 – Japanese & Korean Cuisine
It’s Japanese & Korean Cuisine for our 6th session of the CCA Culinary Arts Fundamental Course. Our resident teacher Kat is back. We started with the usual reminders and tips for the dishes we are about to cook for the day. Here are the dishes we are asked to prepare: I already started prepping the…
CCA Culinary Arts Fundamental Course Session 5 – Chinese Cuisine
I was very excited to go into class as the focus is on Chinese cuisine. Chinese dishes is my ultimate favorite and I can eat Chinese food every single day happily! We do have a new instructor in this session coz our teacher Kat is out of town. The lecture provided by Chef Rupert is…
CCA Culinary Arts Fundamental Course Session 4 – Filipino Cuisine
Upon enrolling in the Fundamental Arts in Culinary Arts last May, I saw the course outline and had been looking forward for the cuisine-focused sessions. And Filipino cuisine is the first one! I’ve been cooking for many years now but I have always limited myself to either Filipino or Korean cuisine. So I’m quite comfortable…
CCA Culinary Arts Fundamental Course Session 3 – Advanced Cooking Methods
We are transitioning to more cooking versus lectures and I was so excited! Having moved to Advanced Cooking Methods in this session, we get to cook more complicated dishes. We started the session with a lecture from our Chef Teacher Kat about Moist and Dry heat cooking methods. Chef also shared some reminders for the…
My Goals for 2023
It’s the year 2023! Whoaaaaaa, time fly so fast and I can feel that I’m getting older by the day and there’s still so much stuff I want to achieve. Considering how our bodies change as we get old, I know that I don’t have any more time to waste. I need to train my…
