Anchor Butter & The Connoisseur Duel: The Grand Food Battle

Anchor butter has been part of our breakfast table since I was a kid. Since I grew up in a family who love to cook and eat, Anchor butter was always there to add flavor to every meal. Anchor butter in pandesal, “ube halaya”, “nilagang mais”, hot cake, “ bibingka”, puto bumbong , and polvoron are some of the food that I used Anchor butter a lot. It was always there in our grocery basket and fridge.

Food Bloggers take center stage in testing their culinary skills in a cook fest  “The Connoisseur Duel: The Grand Food Battle” sponsored by Anchor at the Magsaysay Institute of Hospitality and Culinary Arts (Walter Mart Makati) held last November 26, 2009.

Donning our chef’s hat and apron, we cooked several tasting dishes, our very own cooking masterpiece. Both the yellow and Red teams braced the 50-minute challenge of cooking three kinds of dish using the different Anchor products.

All of these cooking activities were done at Magsaysay Institute of Hospitality and Culinary Arts. MIHCA production kitchen is essentially a “playground” for us bloggers where we unleash our creativity in cooking though no formal training. We had full access to world-class equipment and materials, oven, cooking pans and utensils.

I was lucky to be a member of the Yellow team that prepared “Mum’s sopas”, main dish of fried Dory fish with white sauce, fruit salad and sweetened ladyfingers. We did have a great time, enjoying the whole process cooking and making the food presentable to the panel of judges; Leah Barin, Food Service Manager, Fonterra Brands; Juan Miguel Borja, Senior Chef Instructor at MIHCA ; Dorothy Ferreira, well-respected pastry chef and culinary teacher. The entire dishes used Anchor butter and Anchor Culinary cream.

Anchor shares to us secrets of great cooking; some recipes are passed on from generation to generation, others new creations. Visit http//www. AnchorRecipes.com; for these are recipes that are guaranteed to be delicious as these are made only with ANCHOR BUTTER as well as other Anchor/Fonterra products.

Anchor ….Taste is truly our passion!