Welcome to Ai-tə-rɪz!

Photo credits: to my wonderful photographer friend Louella Panahon-Ricardo

My name is Ai. I'm a (trying hard) baker and cook. I'm no professional. I just have that thrill everytime I whip up and stir something in the kitchen. My love affair with food started at a very young age. 

I grew up in a household where food matters most in every meal. need not to be expensive as long as it is heartily made at home. Growing up, my days are spent playing in the kitchen either helping chopping spices and ingredients or that watching my family preparing meal either for the family or for the small eatery business. At an early age, I'm always experimental with my food. I love to mix them and create a wonderful concoction that I thought would taste better, but always end up taste bitter. All the more, I love to play playhouse where I can engage into the idea of cooking and mixing sometihng with everything we can see in the nearby garden with my childhood friends and miniature clay pots as our toys. It is such a wonderful adventure for me because I get to try cooking in such a young age. By then, I'm beginning to be experimental with foods and helping my Aunt part time with her baking business then.

Furthermore, I honed my passion in baking when I worked at a premium bakeshop in my country where I work as a Human Resources Specialist particularly in the field of training and recruitment. So, it is one of my duty to really know how the products are made from scratch, the formulation they put into , and get to try it first and foremost with my hands to get full grasp of the job, so when training employess, It would be easy for me to let them understand how the work goes. It was a very challenging position for I get to see how a cake made from scratch up to the finish product and get to taste it, if it is worth the quality.

 My love affair with cooking and baking furtherly practiced, and makes more sense to me now that I am a mum.  I love to cook for people I love much more a wonderful boding activity for me and my kiddos. It is my way to entertain them. It's not that hard for me to be left at alone at home, for I find refuge and therapy by simply baking and cooking.

To further pursue my love affair with foods, I'd rather write it down here and share to the blogosphere what I cook, bake, how i find its taste and food finds.

It takes me time to think of a better blog name, for I thought of something with great relevance to eating and myself. And so, AI-te-riz was born. Inspired by the word eateries, from the word eatery. To read it with a bit of an accent ,it sounds like the word eateries. It's like my name Ai is added into it. So, why not made it as a blog name.

Without much ado, Welcome to Ai-te-riz! A place where cooking and baking meets its lover.

I hope you will drop by more often as you can and feel free to drop me a note.

Thank you and wish me all the positive vibes.

Let's get into baking and cooking everyone!

xoAi