Sometimes life hands you a little fright to remind you of how lucky you really are. Not that I am in any way unaware of the gems life has strewn across my path…but, as with most people, I am no ...
Duck Confit Fried Rice…and some links
Hello weekend and hopefully some down time! It’s been a wringer of a week and next week looks to be more of the same so I’m hoping the weekend will bring me a spot of lounging around…even if it’s ...
Rice Cooker Mushroom Rice
This has been a cruelly hot summer. Particularly and most especially in the city. Steaming pavements, blazing sun, heat-headaches and the sticky lethargy that comes upon you when you feel ...
Beans and Rice
One of my most favorite activities of childhood was immersing myself in a good book while having something equally good to eat. I loved it so much that I would actually tell my friends I wasn’t ...
Chinese Goose Liver Sausage Steamed Over Rice
I love my rice cooker. But I didn’t really know this consciously until the day I found out that outside of my little sphere of existence it is considered a single-use appliance, a uni-tasker, a ...
Barley & Sausage
I am writing this at a local cafe enjoying my latte and free wifi while C diligently chases endorphins in a gym nearby. How different we are in that respect. He is high as a kite after working out ...
Kimchi Fried Rice
I’m a recipe tester!Ok, so that is not exactly true. I haven't taken a new profession. I've only tested one recipe...but still! I don’t let that detract one bit from the thrill of helping (albeit a ...
Our First Paella
No recipe today. Just an exuberant rejoicing that finally, finally, we have managed paella! So please pardon me while I say...yay!!!We have been wanting to make paella for a long time now. Well, C ...
SHF #34 & Breakfast #13: Carabao’s Milk Champorado with Cocojam and Pili Nuts
On the heels of my last post, after waxing lyrical about our national love affair with rice for breakfast, I had to come back to tell you this: We don’t just have it with egg and meat/fish. And we ...
Breakfast #12: Chorizo Fried Rice with Egg
This is one of the most blissful things (in my humble opinion) about growing up in the Philippines…decadent yet fortifying, indulgent yet necessary, over-the-top yet simple and basic (hold on to your ...