Chef@Home Cooking Competition Award

I won the Chef@home Cooking Competition 2010 (Season 1) at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Dubai Deira Creek on April 8, 2010. It was a really fun filled evening of tense competition for creating a four course meal to be prepared in an LG SolarDom Light Oven.

Fire-Free Cooking Classes in India Club April 2010

I held a really fun one hour workshop for kids and teenagers one evening in April. We had so much fun. The group learned some very useful and kid friendly recipes like orange sunshine (a mocktail), vegetarian foot long sandwich, Mexican salsa, and sour cream dip. Some of the youngsters in the group are graduating from high school at the end of this school year and will be going off to university abroad. They were eager to pick up some recipes so that they had some basic meal ideas to take along with them.

Choc-Chip Smoothie Recipe for Dessert

I would like to share one of my favourite recipes for a soothing desert.

Ingredients:

• Cold  milk        -  1 cup
• Bananas         -  ½ pcs
• Vanilla ice-cream    -  1 scoop
• Cocoa pd        -  1 tsp
• Chocolate pcs        -  1 tbsp
• Sugar/honey        -  1 tsp
• Choc–bits for decorations

Method:

• Place the milk, bananas, Ice-cream, sugar, chocolate pcs, cocoa pd  in the grinder and grind to smooth paste.
• Pour in a glass, put ice, sprinkle grated chocolate, choc-bits for decorations.

I hope you enjoy this recipe. I conduct cooking classes and many expatriates from Dubai take this course.

For more information about this recipe or to know more about the cooking classes I take for Dubai residents,  feel free to drop me a line @ cookingclassesdubai@gmail.com or Contact me at 0097155-2044988

Certificate of Merit

Cooking is my passion, and when it gets appreciated, specially when competing with many other accomplished cooks, it is always an honour. I was very honoured to receive this Cetificate of Merit, at the cooking contest organized by The Bombay restaurant at the Marco Polo Hotel, Dubai.

VLCC Award for Best Recipe

I took part in a cooking contest organised by VLCC, Dubai, the leading Weight Loss clinic, and was fortunate to win the award for the Best Recipe. It feels good when your effort and innovation gets recognized.

I am interested in healthy cooking, and in my cooking classes I pay great attention to cooking for a healthy heart. I am keen to try new things, and experiment continuously to achieve the satisfaction of creating a dish that is not only delicinous but also healthy, specially for the sedentary life we live in Dubai.

Gahanas Biography

Gahana has a Bachelors degree in Arts. She has been running cooking workshops in the city of Dubai for a multi- ethnic community for past 5 yrs. She has won esteemed awards in the city of Dubai:

1. Stood 1st in longest buffet awards organized by the Marco Polo Hotels in Jan 2007, the longest buffet was mentioned in the Guinness Book of awards.
2. Stood 1st in the Arabian Resources awards.
3. Stood 1st in the Telelife, Made for Each Other cooking competition.
4. Stood 1st in the Telelife, COOK OUT ON COALS award in Feb 2008.
5. Stood 2nd in the LULU Cookery Contest 2008, and 1st in 2009.
6. Stood 1st in the VLCC, healthy cooking contest in 2008, 2009.
7. She was crowned as the SUPER CHEF, at the Four Point Sheraton SUPER WOMAN Contest in Aug, 2009.

She teaches Cooking at the Barsha, Rashid Padiatric Therapy Centre for Special needs. She has been covered by Gulf News, Telelife and various other industry magazines.


She takes following workshops as part of her Cookery Classes :

• Mexican Cuisine
• Thai Culinary Course
• Chinese Cuisine
• Italian Cuisine
• Mughlai Cuisine
• Low Fat Cuisine
• Appetizers
• Mocktails
• Teenage Cooking Class
• Children Cooking Class