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 ...
Manok 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 ...
Chicken 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 ...
Roast 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 ...
Spanish Chicken in Bravas Sauce & A Giveaway!
Hello!!! I’m back! Well, I have been for a while now. As with every trip or holiday, its conclusion always heralds a major pile of all sorts of catching up: a mountain of work, household bills and ...
General Tso’s Chicken
It’s Sunday morning and I am feeling happy and content about the little things in life. We are in the midst of our Sunday morning ritual, more or less a ritual I suppose, as we don’t give ourselves ...
Lemon Butter Chicken
So many new places to eat are opening up these days. Not just in my neighborhood (in which there are a lot of great new places to explore and turn into hangouts…yay!) but all over. Our local dining ...
Three Cups Chicken
I swear. I look around and realize that I have, suddenly and frightfully, reached the depths of un-sophistication. Ok, I’ll be honest, maybe not so “suddenly”. But most definitely frightfully. I ...
Kari Ayam Spicy Chicken Curry & A Giveaway
We just got back from a short but sweet holiday in the vibrant, energetic city of Hong Kong. Although I am an absolute island girl, and I do enjoy the great outdoors (as long as no sports or ...
Orange Ginger Chicken
As summer rolls around, we all look for ways to escape the steamy city fug. Sometimes that means jetting off to one of our 7,000 (plus, plus) islands to lie on white beaches, sip chilled fruit ...