"The best way to a man's heart is through his stomach."In a way, I hope to reach out to different people using a fundamental key in everyone's lives: food. I have constantly been moving throughout my life, and the one thing that always helped me connect to different people is baking. Baking has connected me to many people in my life so far, so I hope I can continue to meet people through baking for the rest of my life.
I love watching Disney movies and Ghibli films. More or less, I'm a big fan of animations.
A person can call me an "otaku", which is the Japanese term for someone obsessed with Japanese anime. I love reading Japanese manga and watching Japanese anime.
I plan on pursuing a career in the social work area. I am entering Humber College for Child and Youth Worker, and I plan on getting a bachelor's degree in it, and, if I'm lucky, maybe even a master's.
my baking life:
I first started baking around the age of eleven. My father used to bake a lot around the house, and so when he moved out to live closer to his workplace, I took on the role of baker instead. Unlike what many believe, I taught myself baking. My father never taught me to bake before he moved, so I was left to learn by myself (my mother can't bake for her life). I started off with those boxed cakes, like Betty Crocker. I became bored of using boxed cakes after a little more than a year, so I began to move on to baking from scratch. My dad left his old baking book behind, called the Great American Brand Name Baking (which I still have in my possession). I started using that first.
I'll admit, I was probably the worst beginner baker out there. None of my desserts came out the way in the book. Most of them were flat and lumpy. But after a year or so, I began to get a hang of baking, and they looked more and more edible. And I was content with that. For the next three to four years, that's how I baked. I just followed the recipes in my dad's book. Then, after that, I took interest in dessert decoration. I began looking up how to decorate cakes and such. And of course, when I first began, I was horrible. My decorations more resembled mush than anything else. It's been around three years since I've started to learn how to decorate cakes, and I've gotten a lot better.
It was around a year after I began decorating my desserts that my interest in different types of recipes kicked in. So I moved on from using my dad's baking book to using the internet and experimenting with different recipes, sometimes foreign ones. I learned how to bake a few French desserts, some Asian ones, Spanish ones, etc. Recipes such as creme brulee, flan, meringue, green tea cookies, mousse, tres leches cake, etc. It was so much fun learning how to bake new things.
At the moment, I am moving on to learning different foreign recipes since I bought my new digital kitchen scale, allowing me to explore recipes written in grams and ounces.
My baking challenge of the month is chiffon cake. I plan on baking them until I can bake the perfect chiffon cake.
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