LIFE IN SO CAL

My life is spent trying to become the best Chef I can be and to erase the culinary rules so I can re What can I say about my cooking career?

My father began to teach me how to cook when I was about nine years old. It was one of his great passions although he never worked as a Chef. I began to work in restaurants at the age of fifteen as a dishwasher. My first few jobs were not stellar Mama Lucia’s (dishwasher) Mc Donald’s and Little Caesar’s. Eventually I went to Los Angeles Mission College to learn the Culinary Arts under the great tu

telage of Chef Rudy Garcia. I dove into my studies and it further instilled this love for cooking that I seem to have always had. While I was in school I began to work freelance catering events for Private Chefs and Country Clubs such as the Oakmont Country Club. After completing my studies I took off to work in the pantry at Jackson Lake Lodge in Wyoming. The first event that I worked was attended by Colon Powell and four hundred of the nation’s top high school students. Unfortunately I could not acclimate myself to being so high above sea level and was forced to leave for the sake of my health. After sleeping in a hostel and at times going without food for the sake of lodging I settled into a Head Chef Position in town. I took the place of a Chef who left his partner without so much as a word, so I stepped in. I even managed to do some catering events while I was there for the owner of Nu-Skin. Now what I wasn’t aware of was how seasonal Jackson Hole Wyoming was and due to winter I was forced to return home. It was shortly thereafter I began to work for Romano’s Macaroni Grill where I eventually became a trainer and Culinary Key. During my time there I began to work private events through my own catering company. One of the events I was able to wrangle was a three day weekend for Oscar Presenters through the Tangerine and Beauty by Andre, sponsored by Blush. Since then I have had stints in restaurants such as the Vintage Café where I worked as the Chef for the small Cajun restaurant, as well as catering for shows such as CSI Miami and CSI Vegas, as well as the Movie Bewitched. Eventually I went back to school attending Le Cordon Blu for two terms unable to finish because of financing. Currently I am working as a food blogger and taking private events when I can. All in all I have been cooking for more than fifteen years and now I am back at Mission to continue my learning in the Culinary Arts, although I finished the program a long time ago I know I can never stop learning. I am trying to use my two food blogs to build a reader base so that I can launch a member paid cooking site to include live streaming food demos as well as recipes. I find myself constantly thinking about when I was young and I used to sit and watch any cooking demo I came across and it is my hopes that my site can help someone, even one person find a greater love for cooking.

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26/09/2020

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18/09/2020

This popped up in my email today. I remember being so happy that they finally closed Camachos on Citywalk and I was happy that another Mexican restaurant was being put in. My wife and I went with some friends and I ordered Birria. birria is easily one of my favorite things to eat in this world. The tender juicy meat slow cooked to perfection. That was until I got my Tacos and they were dry. I never had Birria in my life that was dry. My wife’s enchiladas were burnt on the bottom and my friends nachos we slightly burnt as well. Then to top it all off the service was slow. No one had a sense of urgency they were just going through the minimal motions to do their jobs semi okay. Yeah, you won’t trick me twice.

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06/05/2020

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06/12/2019

Recipe testing... for the chilaquiles I added almond butter to the mole and The Mexican Pizza is four cheese and egg on mole

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