Cooking Tip

                        Cook with Sugar

"A pinch of granulated sugar, like a pinch of salt, can balance flavor and brighten food. Bland tomato sauce? Sprinkle in a touch of sugar to amplify the tomatoes' natural sweetness. Sauteed onions need more flavor? Add a light dusting of sugar to enhance the caramelization process." (Notes On Cooking)*

First Catering Event

Sorry it has taken me a while to get back into this blog. I've been extremely busy with school and extracurricular activities. On June 4, 2010 I had my first...well we could call it "catering gig." I had the opportunity to make the appetizers for a baby shower. I was extremely stressed out, but in the end, everything turned out better than I expected. I always tend to not have faith on what I'm capable of accomplishing. Since this was my first official catering event, I was very nervous, because I thought nobody would want to even taste the appetizers I had made. Before I knew it, everybody was getting up from their seats and eating everything I had made. I had many compliments on the food I prepared as well as future opportunities with some of the guests that were there. They even said that I could make the appetizers for future hospital parties (special parties for Doctors). How cool is that? This was such a great opportunity, and I learned so much in the process of doing this :).

"The Beginning"

These were some of the dessert projects we have done at Idaho State University. Yummy...is all I can say! I can't believe how far I have come over the past last year. Before I began this degree, I had no clue what I was getting myself into. I found myself lost with not knowing what I wanted to study. I thought and thought and found nothing that I would want to do for the rest of my life. My family has always loved to cook and I constantly found myself watching the Food Network with them. It was one day when I got...you could say, inspiration...something told me that this was what I was suppose to do with myself. I soon became enrolled at Idaho State University not knowing anything whatsoever about cooking. The closest thing to cooking that I ever had come across was macaroni and cheese.