18 Philippine Showbiz Today
September 8 -21, 2018
Donita Rose whips up dishes for kids and the family
Actress and single mom
Donita Rose knows too well how
difficult it is to plan for her child’s
every day meal.
Juggling acting stints, hosting
jobs and her YouTube cooking
channel “Dash of Donita,” the
43-year-old surely has a lot on
her plate.
Add to that her return to
prime time as host of “Heart Mate
Kitchen Season 2,” a cooking
capsule co-produced by GMA 7
and Jolly Heart Mate Canola Oil,
one can imagine how Rose has
little time left to tend to her own
kitchen.
Even so, this multi-slashie
and professional chef — she
has obtained a culinary degree
at the Academy for International
Culinary Arts and worked at the
four-star Japanese restaurant
Kumi in Mandalay Bay — makes
sure she uses her kitchen skills
to whip up not just delicious but
nutritious meals for her son.
“The thing that you should
really strive for is to have well-ba
lanced meals,” Rose began when
asked for tips how to prepare
meals for kids.
The actress and professional chef reminds moms to prepare a variety of balanced
meals for their children.
“You want to have carbs,
for energy, protein to keep them
full, and of course veggies, which
have the micronutrients,” she
continued.
As kids tend to tire of dishes
when they are served on a daily
basis, Rose added she makes sure
her now 14-year-old son’s meal
plan has variety.
“I try to make sure that every
day is something different for my
son. So within a week, I make
sure na meron siyang chicken,
fish, pork, beef and all with the
addition of veggies.”
Real
kitchen
problems
Besides these tips, Rose’s
audience can also look forward to
family dishes that she personally
conceptualized for Heart Mate
Kitchen.
Airing until October during
commercial gaps of “Unang Hirit”
and “Wowowin” during weekdays
and in “Sarap Diva” and “Kapuso
Movie Festival” during weekends,
Rose will try to solve real kitchen
problems with the help of GMA
celebrities.
There’s an episode where
Camille Prats turns to Rose for
slumber party meal ideas for
the former’s own son, Nate; and
Zoren Legazpi asking for family-
frinedly dishes for his twins Mavy
and Casey.
The cooking capsule will also
feature out-of-town “baon” food
with Mikael Daez, post-work-out
meals with Rocco Nacino, dish-
to-impress with Jason Abalos,
heart-healthy breakfast with Julie
Anne San Jose and a movie dinner
meal with Yasmien Kurdi.
“All the recipes, which I
finished writing in one and a half
days, we are offering on the show,
pinag isipan ng mabuti. I was
so proud when taped because
everything turned out really well
and I know our audience will be
able to take away lots of ideas
from our episodes,” Rose finally
promised.●
- C. Alpad, TM