27 Aug, 2007
The third night of the Samsung/Metrowear series of fashion shows in Cebu featured an array of Bridal gowns for ladies and suits for men. I didn’t take very many photos but The Kid did… So, based on several requests by email, I am doing this quick post on the evening, and most photos…
27 Aug, 2007
On our recent trip to Ilocos, for which I am SO BEHIND on posts, we had a delicious chicken soup with miki and bagnet for merienda at our hotel. As soon as I got to Manila, I decided to try my own version, and these are the results of that experiment. Chicken…
26 Aug, 2007
I know, I know, this is a food website. But some readers may find a quick fashion related post interesting. And if you are inclined, consider this AN INVITE to a pretty snazzy fashion event THIS EVENING in Cebu, with some wedding gowns by Monique Lhuillier as the anticipated highlight of the…
26 Aug, 2007
The concept of a bread pudding never really floated my boat, if you get my drift. It just sounded so blah-ish. That is, until a couple of years ago when I saw Ina Garten make a bread pudding with croissants on one of her televsion cooking shows. I stored that concept…
25 Aug, 2007
There were several requests for the lemon tart that I made a few days ago. This has to be one of the easiest and best tasting lemon tarts I have ever made, and it is from Payard’s Simply Sensational Desserts cookbook. I strongly recommend that you buy this book if you are…
24 Aug, 2007
I received several requests for the recipes of the lemon tart and the Kid’s pecan boats in this previous post so I decided to first describe the tart dough (which you can use in many, many different tarts) and then the recipe for the pecan tart boats. The tart dough is basically a…
24 Aug, 2007
If your house/apartment was burning down, and you made sure that all humans and pets were all out of harm’s way, you managed to grab most of your jewelry and family photo albums and saved the laptop and on your way out of the kitchen back door, you had a chance to grab JUST…
23 Aug, 2007
A few weeks ago we had a bounty of fresh kalamansi (calamondin) fruit. To prevent wasting several kilos of the fruit which was ripening faster than we could use it, we squeezed out the juice from about 5 kilos worth of fruit and froze the juice in ice cube trays. Once they…