We had a full course dinner last night -- this Thai crispy catfish and green mango salad, miso soup, fried Vie

Despite the convenience, I am not a fan of canned broth. I like broth cubes even less. I make my own broth fro

In her TV show Nigella Express, Nigella Lawson made a similar dessert using strawberries, cream and crumbled m

It seems redundant to call this dish guinataang paco fern considering that paco is the local name for the tend

After three consecutive baking disasters, I finally came up with a winner. These tri-level brownies are exactl

The Italians will tell you that real spaghetti carbonara has no cream in it. The creamy sauce is actually made

They might not sound like the perfect pair but the salty and pungent Chinese ham is great with pasta. And you

It's a mom-and-daughter baking project. I baked the cupcakes and mixed the frosting. Sam tinted the frosting a

Lunch last Wednesday was a pasta dish that made use of leftovers. I had excess yogurt from last Saturday's chi

A day after I cooked this soup for lunch, I finally did what I had been promising myself for a long time — p

For last Saturday's dinner with my husband's family (his oldest brother and his family are visiting from Chica

Considered by many as America's most beloved comfort food, mac and cheese was tonight's emergency and very rus

You like tofu? Fried tofu? So do I. And I enjoyed this sweet sticky tofu dish tremendously. Most Filipinos kno

Muesli (pronounced myoos-lee), a mixture of unrolled oats, dried fruit and nuts, is generally considered a hig

My kids brought some of these cornmeal waffles to school and, as usual, classmates asked for a taste. Then, th

The same preserved seedless plums that I used for the plum scones that I recently baked were mixed with a twea

There's a chicken casserole with bread topping that I cooked a couple of weeks ago and I so loved the cheesy b

The new cooking range has finally been delivered. Except for some alterations in the kitchen cabinets (not eno

The recipe is from the leaflet that came with the Nordic Ware waffle iron that I bought from eBay. I tweaked t

I heard that the blog was inaccessible for several hours. Sorry about that. I'm blogging using free wifi inter

It's East meets West in so many ways. Scones are very English. Scones often accompany the traditional afternoo

About a week ago, I cooked 800 grams of chicken gizzards for a soup dish. I only needed half as much but decid

"Primavera" refers to a Central American hardwood tree with tubular yellow flowers or to the season of spring.

This is my second attempt at making stuffed bell peppers and I finally did it right. The first time, I stuffed

Last Friday, I had a bad craving for a "fried" meal. It happens. You stay away from something you used to enjo

There is an older version of adobong kangkong (swamp / water spinach) in the archive of the other blog but it

The name of the dish sounds very Japanese but I doubt if you'll find teriyaki udon listed in the menu of Japan

It's tempting to create a food blog dedicated to vegetable spring rolls and nothing else but I don't think it'

If you're a fan of Vietnamese food, then you should be familiar with the peanut sauce that goes with the sprin

There's boring fried rice and there's fried rice with an attitude. This one has A LOT of attitude. Grated fres

This pan-fried whole fish with tofu-egg salsa is a modified sarciado dish. Sarciado literally means "with sauc

It was a whim. A last-minute whim and a decision that took all of a split-second to make. What I really intend

Chocolate and mangoes make an unusual pair but in this chocolate and mango tart, they go together like hand in

The recipe is from Tucker Shaw's Gentlemen, Start Your Ovens: Killer Recipes for Guys and it features my favor

This is the day when I vow never to pay attention when I see the "Buy 1, Take 1" signs all over Shopwise. Not

Soaking the mussels to expel sand takes several hours. Preparing them for cooking takes several minutes. But t