Cooking classes for 2012!

Hello everyone!

I am very pleased to announce that our cooking classes, all of them were such a great success and because of that it will continue to be as we will start all over again next year of 2012, starting by January.

So we are already in session at the Plantation Civic Center but we will be coming back only on January 5th 2012 at 4:30 pm.

Pompano Beach Civic Center will start a new session from January 11th to February 29th 2012. Registrations are open already!

The Lighthouse Christian School starting by January starting Tuesday 01/17/12 to 03/06/12.

And also with the Saint Mark Episcopal School also starting in January 2012 but we don't have a closed date yet, I will keep you informed about it.

I am so proud of all of you that have attended to one of my cooking classes and how much fun did we have! And all the food that we did, that was super awesome!!!

Enjoy your holidays as much as you can, spread the love with your cooking, try to do some of our recipes learned in class so you can impress your family and show them how good little gourmet Chef's you are!!!

Happy meals everyone and Merry Christmas!!!!

Chef Vanessa

I hope I will touch your heart this X'mas! Eu espero te tocar neste Natal!

Every Christmas we wish for happy moments with our family, the gift that we waited all year long, food, celebration parties and all the holiday trimmings but we do forget that are so many in need everywhere in the world and close to you too! Every day I get bombarded over the internet and the TV with animal cruelty pictures, videos and stories and also about babies, kids and elderly people that have been abused or neglected or need help. I said to myself why I can’t give 1% of myself to help every month a cause. It could be donating, or volunteering, or talking about a cause or just by trying to get people more conscious wise about all the cruelty that we, human still do to other creatures!! I ask myself why people still harm one another. It seems that the answer is quite simple, ignorance! So if we teach our kids to be kind, if we try to make human be to be a little bit better and to be more humane, look the word already speaks by itself, HUMANE, the world could so much better!!!
So have a wonderful Christmas this year and a blessed New Year. I hope I have reached some of you and if yes please donate this Christmas to your local pet adoption center or to an organization that helps people around the world or close to you!
Share information about anything that you think it's important and that it need help! Share also information about cruelty, abuse and negligence so everyone can understand how sad that is!
Merry Christmas!
Chef Vanessa

In Portuguese:

Entra ano sai ano e quando estamos chegando proximo ao Natal soh no que pensamos eh naquele presente que estamos esperando o ano todo, nas festa, na comemoracao com a familia, na comida e todo o resto que se inclui nessa epoca. Mas o que nos esquecemos tao facilmente todos os anos eh de quantos sao os necessitados no mundo ou mesmo a sua volta. E quando digo necessitados nao eh exatamente so nos humanos mas sim dos animais tambem!
Todos os dias eu sou bombardeada com noticias via internet ou na TV sobre crueldade, abuso e negligencia com animais, criancas e idosos. E oque eu me pergunto eh aonde isso vai parar, sera que tudo esta caminhando para cada vez pior? Sera que eh que pode existir pior?
O que eu penso eh que se nos doacemos 1% de nosso tempo uma vez no mes em ajudar numa causa local ou um orfanato, um asilo, um refugio de doacoes de animais, nas organizacoes que ajudam aos moradores de rua e se ajudassemos com doacoes monetaria ou servico voluntariado, ou ate mesmo de espalhar a noticia para ajuda, isso ja faria uma diferenca tao grande!
Veja como exemplo eu estou hoje tomando meu 1% de tempo para escrever para todos sobre o que eu penso, tentando tocar alguns com esta mensagem e assim quem sabe esta mensagem nao se espalha e outros leram e se sentiram tocados e vao pensar diferente. Outro exmplo, quando lemos sobre crueldade, por mais que doa assitir, assita sim, para entender um pouco da dor do outro e repasse, para que outros possam sentir o mesmo que voce!
Se todos nos fizessemos o nosso 1% ao mes de contribuicao ao proximo isso ja faria uma diferenca absurda para muitos que tao pouco tem ou que tanto sofrem. Entao quando puderem pensem no seu 1% e use-o, nao deixe passar em branco. Ano novo eh sempre motivo de novas metas e se todos nos mudarmos um pouco sera muito bom! Acreditem nisso!
Boas festas e boas refeicoes para todos!
Chef Vanessa