‘ED DYCHAUCO’ Archives
Make Mine Pizza!
Chef Ed Dychauco, RN Chef Ed Dychauco, RN For the past months and even years, I have noticed the increased in the number of pizza shops around the city and even nearby areas. And I should say it is a welcome respite to have such new establishments. I am a big fan of pizzas and it doesn’t matter whether it is thick crust, thin crust [...]
Love is in the Air!
Chef Ed Dychauco, RN Cupids & Heart-shaped cut-outs, Bows & Arrows, Stuffed Toys, Red-colored dresses, shirts and what-nots, Red Roses and other red flowers. What do all these tell us? It means it is Valentine’s Day once again. That’s what I love when the year is ending and when the year is starting. It is an unending [...]
Amazing 2 days Adventure
Chef Ed Dychauco, RN 2 weeks ago, I have several friends who came over to visit. Actually, their dad, the late Daniel Sacupayo, was a former high school classmate of my mom at Camiguin Institute (now Fatima College of Camiguin). And they are compose of Pamela, Tony & Megan Mendoza from Chicago, Leah & Tony Abarrientos of California, Glothelda [...]
Best River Rafting…so far!
Chef Ed Dychauco, RN Last January I got the chance of my life to try 1st River Rafting Adventure’s “Beginners” section white river rafting with some friends from the United States. Then on February, a month after, I went with the “Local” Celebrities for another fun-filled ride for a cause. Those first 2 rafting were filled with [...]
Ms. Lydia N. Robillos…Queen of Sugar Flowers
Chef Ed Dychauco, RN In the 70’s, there were only a handful of “bakeshops, snack shops & cake shops” rolled into one. And one of the pioneering legend in this entirely different edible world of art was a sweet lady by the name of Lydia. Her love of cooking was already in her when she enrolled in Notre Dame University in Cotabato [...]
Social Networking among Classmates & Friends
Chef Ed Dychauco, RN After graduation, especially in nursing, it is inevitable that most of us will venture outside our nests. And in doing so, we find ourselves in places we can only dream of before. We get to meet and make new friends in a new, strange place. And if everything goes right, we stay and become a part of this new community & [...]
Graduation Soiree 2011
Chef Ed Dychauco, RN By this time, graduation is over. Be it basic, high school or college. It is with pride for both the graduates and their parents that there was an achievement on their lives. The parents for having spent time, money, effort and everything else to send their children to school and the graduate, who after many years [...]
Start Them Young!
Chef Ed Dychauco, RN Now that everybody seem to be interested in the culinary world, more and more people are now engaging in cooking & baking businesses. And I salute these individuals who learn through their own efforts, mostly through self-learning. I, for one, learned it “my” way. I can proudly say I took quite a lot of [...]
The Joys (and Pains) of Baking
Chef Ed Dychauco, RN Learning how to bake is one thing I learned formally from my late sister, Gloria in the mid-70’s. I had been her “side-kick” when she opened Pots & Pans. I learn a lot of things, from marketing, to budgeting, to preparation, to kitchen management and many more. I wasn’t into baking nor cooking then but I knew I [...]
