We are beset by rains once again. It's typhoon season and another big one has just hit us. Actually, more than big, she was strong...and ravenous. She flew in Wednesday morning and left havoc and ...
Alphabet Vegetable Soup
I was in the car the other day, I don’t know what for. It could have been one of a million things these days: driving the little girl to school, rushing to the grocery to grab some last minute item ...
Potato, Ham, & Leek Soup with Bacon Pangrattato
It’s been quite a night. I’m working on precious little sleep. Trying to get as much done before I need to rush to the airport in a couple of hours. Yet, I am deliriously buoyed and driven forward ...
Butternut Squash and Bacon Soup
I woke up this morning with a start. Jumped out of bed and booted up my work computer, checking my flowered Hanna Werning datebook where I keep my agenda and to-do list (yes, I still write everything ...
Corned Beef and Cabbage Soup
What a week this has been! As I sit here on my desk I can barely manage to keep my eyes open and my shoulders from drooping with fatigue. I won’t go into the gritty details here, because ...
Creamy Squash Carrot and Longanisa Soup
Sometimes we get so lost in our own doldrums that we miss out on all the goodness that is around us, just waiting to be noticed. The worse is when we get so entangled in small problems that they ...
Munggo with Gata and Kalabasa (mung beans with coconut milk and squash)
The windows of our bedrooms face due east so we get the sunrise every day. As much a sunrise as you can get in the middle of the city. Which, actually, has its own special magic…at least ...
Simple Wonton Noodle Soup
For the most part, Saturday market time is Me Time. C is out mountain biking in, oh, some mountain somewhere. Little C is asleep or playing with the nanny. Weekend activities have yet to start, or ...
Catch-all Carrot & Sweet Potato Soup
I am in the middle of moving. Again. We are finally finishing the last bits of the renovation and starting to move our things to the new flat. As anyone who has renovated (or constructed for that ...
Spanish-style Munggo Guisado
Was I just talking about the heat not too long ago? As June rolls in, so does our rainy (or “wet”) season, the second season of our two-season year (the other being, you guessed it, “dry” – or summer ...