Shortcut Sausage Meatballs and Nigella
In my culinary journey I’ve had many inspirations. Many of them are close and familiar: my mother (but of course!), my father, my grandmother, and many of my aunts and uncles. I come from a cooking...
View ArticlePork Menudo
The Christmas season is upon us! With all the hustle and bustle it brings. Christmas carols in all the stores (which honestly have been going on since September), brilliant lights on building and...
View ArticleLongganisa Ragu with Fried Kesong Puti and Asian Herbs
I know I just wrote quite a long post on Nigella Lawson, and I promised I wouldn’t subject you to another worshiping post for a while. But the folks over at Contadina posed a question that I couldn’t...
View ArticleRed Curry Crab
My goodness. It has been awhile hasn’t it? I make no excuses! Life’s too short for that. But I’d just like to say…it’s good to be back. And, hopefully, with a little more consistency. I make no...
View ArticleOne-Bowl Chocolate Cupcakes & the new KitchenAid Mini
I will never forget when I received my first (and until recently my only) KitchenAid. Owning this iconic mixer was something I, as a fledgling cook (and even more apprehensive baker), fervently aspired...
View ArticleOsso Buco, Best Friends Day, and a Giveaway!
Do you know what today is? It’s Best Friends Day! Yes, there is indeed such a day that celebrates and honors that special person that fate threw in your path, and changed your life forever. As it...
View ArticleWinners of the Book of 40 Giveaway!
Hello everyone! Thank you for being so patient with me! And if you weren’t…I completely understand! Life definitely has a way of teaching us how we need to spend our time, and what priorities we need...
View ArticleThai Red Curry Sausage
Although I’ve had my KitchenAid for many years, I’ve never tried out any of the attachments. It could be said that I’ve been keeping my beloved KitchenAid from her full potential. After all, and...
View ArticleChickpeas and Cherry Tomatoes
It’s funny how ideas can come from places we, at first, wouldn’t think likely. Like in the line at the ATM (always a good few long minutes there!), or while looking at old family photos (we need to go...
View ArticleRoast Chicken Adobo
We love our roast chickens over here. My husband and I have been having them since we were newly married and our kitchen was a tiny galley-type in our first apartment. We now have two children and a...
View ArticleLa Pizza Rossa
Oh boy, have I been missing in action. And before anything let me just say I am so very sorry for the neglect. Do I have an excuse? Not really. I mean nothing really different from what everyone else...
View ArticleChicken Bicol Express
I was at the grocery one day when I chanced upon some of Yummy magazine’s little cookbooks on the magazine rack. They are roughly the size of a paperback but thinner. A mini cookbook really. But packed...
View ArticleManok Tim & a Giveaway!
Well hello. Ok, I’m not going to go into how long it has been since I’ve been here. Or why it was that I have been away for so long. Or about life and living and time and busyness and work and family...
View ArticleBaked Spanish-style Chicken
One of the most valuable things in my cooking journey has always been the advice of people who have been cooking long before me. I still remember my father dumping a spoonful of pimenton de la Vera in...
View ArticleCreamy Pesto Farfalle
With the holidays in full swing, and Noche Buena fast approaching, we are all looking for recipes and dishes for our Christmas table. I remember when I was younger, my mom, grandmother, and all my...
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